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This seems like it might even scale to elementary school type projects. Maybe not for all the students, lol. But I bet a few of those kids that like to wear button-up shirts and carry briefcases to class would love the heck out of it. Maybe even a new kind of pen-palling.

There are kids that wear button-up shirts and carry briefcases to class?? ...I think we went to very different schools... That having been said, this could make for a really interesting and thought-provoking pen-pal-type program. In particular, the visualizations relating to personal interactions or how time is spent could really highlight cultural differences that we're usually oblivious to.

Few and far between, maybe 1% of 1% of 1%... but they're out there. So, one or two kids in every district, or a 10% chance of one kid in any one school. Where'd I get these stats? Thin air.

http://www.ebony.com/career-finance/mos-bows-bowties-099#axz...

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Fantastic! My only complaint is the lack of higher resolution scan - there's so much detail in these graphs that it's hard to make it all out. Fortunately, you can change the image URLs to see a larger size by changing the "format" parameter, e.g. "?format=original":

* http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54eec73ee4b0ae0904da0e...

* http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54eec73ee4b0ae0904da0e...

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