From American psychos to car-crash survivors in 21 steps 

Number of points in a new 'Business scan' questionnaire developed by Pr Robert Hare and Dr Paul Babiak, North American experts in psychotic disorders, to identify psychopaths in the workplace 107

% of the general population in north America that Pr Hare estimates are psychopaths - Hare believes a psychopath's ability to manipulate others, coupled with a veneer of charm and high energy, can make them perfectly qualified for top posts in the military, politics or multinational companies 1

% of top executives who misrepresent their education 15

Number of euros unaccountably missing from giant Italian dairy business Parmalat 10bn

Amount the republican administration in America is planning to spend on a campaign to promote heterosexual marriage  $1.5 m 

% of Americans who are opposed to gay marriage 61 

Number of the 7,300 Episcopal church parishes in America that are threatening to break away in a realignment of 'faith and values' - key to the split is the recent consecration of gay bishop Gene Robinson 260 

Number of people globally in the Anglican communion 70m 

Number of countries who have member of the Anglican Communion  164 

Number of countries in the Commonwealth53 

Number of wildlife surveyors, wearing fibreglass vest and steel helmets, who are carrying out a census of Bengal tigers in the Sunderban delta on the India/Bangladesh border 250 

Number of tigers counted in the last census, in 2002, on the India side 271 

Number of people killed by tiger every year on the Indian side of the Sunderbans - mostly fisherman, woodcutters or honey collectors50 

Number of years since the first speed cameras were introduced  12 

Cost of a fixed speed camera £32,000

Number of £60 and three penalty-point fines generated by the 5,000 speed cameras in use in 2003 2m 

Amount of money raised for the treasury each year by speed cameras  £17m 

Number of articles in the national press over the past year about speed cameras 1,305 

% of pedestrian hit by a vehicle moving at 20mph that survive the impact 95 

% of pedestrian hit by a vehicle moving at 30mph that survive the impact50

% of pedestrian hit by a vehicle moving at 40mph that survive the impact 5

Compiled by Tom Templeton

1-2 BBC 3 The Guardian 4 BBC 5,6 New York Times 7-9 The Guardian  10 The commonwealth 11-13 Associated Press 14-17 The Guardian 18-21 Observer research 

Published in the Observer Magazine (08-02-2004)

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