ON AN AVERAGE DAY IN JAPAN ....
ON AN AVERAGE DAY IN JAPAN . . . by Tom Heymann (Fawcett: $8; 227 pp., paperback original). Heymann’s catalogue of mean statistics offers some revealing information. In Japan, which has approximately half the population of the United States, five people are robbed each day vs. 1,491 in the U.S.; 99% of the Japanese have health insurance, while an estimated 37 million Americans have no coverage whatsoever. A Japanese child spends seven hours in school and does two hours of homework; American children spend five hours and 20 minutes in school and only 25 minutes on homework. But these bits of data could be presented more effectively in an article.
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