Go Figure Quotes

“The beer the company has become most famous for – porter stout – was based on a London ale, a favourite of the street porters of Covent Garden and Billingsgate markets.”
― Tom Standage, Go Figure: Things you didn’t know you didn’t know: The Economist Explains

“GoAir, an Indian low-cost carrier, hires only female flight attendants because they are on average 10–15kg lighter than men. Such parsimony pays off. Fuel accounts for a third of an airline’s costs and every kilogram thus shed removes $100 from an aircraft’s annual fuel bill.”
― Tom Standage, Go Figure: Things you didn’t know you didn’t know: The Economist Explains

“(developed countries accounted for 61% of UN interns in 2007, despite having just 15% of the world’s population).”
― Tom Standage, Go Figure: Things you didn’t know you didn’t know: The Economist Explains

“On average only a fifth of the working-age population in EU member states holds a part-time job (8.7% of men and 32.2% of women); in the Netherlands 26.8% of men and 76.6% of women work less than 36 hours a week.”
― Tom Standage, Go Figure: Things you didn’t know you didn’t know: The Economist Explains