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As of March 21, 2012, these are the most "active" universities on Quora:Assumptions and other considerations:Let us define "active" by university topic page follower count.We must assume that only a negligible number of people follow university topic pages without having attended those universities.These follower counts also include prospective students, incoming freshmen, alumni, faculty, staff, etc... So they're not a simple reading of "number of college students from X college with a Quora account." It's just an approximation.We should also consider that some universities have smaller student populations than others, so Caltech having 777 topic followers actually indicates relatively strong penetration, since their total student body size is 2231 (undergraduate + postgraduate). 35% of a campus on a website? Seems pretty good to me. Again, please keep in mind that out of 777, perhaps 100 are aspiring to go to Caltech, or 200 are alumni. These numbers are approximations.The list also doesn't take into account all graduate and professional schools. This is an important consideration, as many Quora users are either prospective applicants, current students, or alumni of these postgraduate institutions. On the other side of this coin, the data more closely reflects the similarity to Facebook's undergrad/college growth in early stages. ALSO: It's safe to assume that only a handful of people would list (follow) just their postgraduate level of education. Almost every person will also list (follow) their undergraduate institution as well, mitigating the problem quite a bit.This list is derived from the top 101 schools from the 2012 U.S. News and World Report National University Rankings.Interpretation and Analysis:Assuming little overlap, the total university population (or at least those associated / interested in these universities) on Quora, is: 68,979.So nearly ~70,000 Quora users are somehow associated with the Top 101 colleges in the US (either by interest or actual attendance). As an aside, I find this number to be weaker than expected. But then again, we just don't know exactly how many college students visit the site without signing up as users. That's a huge factor we must consider, especially if we contemplate a hypothetical scenario where Quora monetizes through advertising. Since they keep the site open to all (even non-users), they could still generate revenue through all the people viewing pages without signing up. If college kids keep citing Quora as the go-to source for information, that would be a win for Quora, despite these topic page follower counts being low.There doesn't seem to be a strong correlation between higher rankings and higher followers. You don't see the top 10 schools (by USNWR ranking) also loosely fit the top 10 most followed topic pages. In fact, the top 10 most followed range from schools ranked between 1-34.Geographically, a great chunk of the "most active" are from Boston, the SF Bay Area, New York, and Los Angeles. This seems to also correlate with education per capita stats we have from the census. That's a good stat to compare with since Quora has a core user-base of highly educated people. It would be interesting to see how the university metrics measure up with overall geographic metrics and see if anything pops out there. In the absence of Quora providing any of this data, that would require a similar data mining approach of viewing the follower count for various cities.Stanford University is the "most active" by follower count, with ~8.5k followers. It's important to note that Quora is just a few blocks from the Stanford campus and is closely intertwined with the overall community. This begs the question: is the Stanford follower count high because Quora is nearby or because people that go to, went to, or are interested in Stanford comprise a core part of the Quora user base? If we look at the next most active school (Harvard), we see a similarly high count of ~5.3k followers. Remember, Harvard is 3,000 miles away on a different coast (and it's still got that many followers). This suggests that while Stanford's numbers might be inflated due partially to Quora's physical proximity, it's because there's an association based on these schools' student body preferences (and they prefer sites like Quora). The case of MIT at #3 further proves this point.There's more we could do with this data but this is what I'm putting up for now. Also: there's no easy way to get an accurate data set of college attendance, just these topic page follower numbers, so we should always temper our enthusiasm about these results given the condition of the data set.Overall, I think this is an important metric to follow. College students have historically always been eager to adopt technology and information tools. If they're numbers are lagging on the site, it's probably not a good sign.There is however a different way to view the Quora and higher education intersection. If we draw parallels to Facebook and their growth strategy, we'd have to focus on Quora as a social network and track user engagement. If we focus on Quora's content, however, then what we're really looking at is how the product evolves the concept of a knowledge repository beyond the traditional library/university paradigm (and the Internet in general). In that case, college-associated engagement wouldn't be as relevant.Parting note: if you spot any trends, shortcomings, or other suggestions, please point them out in the comments.If you've developed a scraper to mine data more easily, let me know. There's lots more work to be done ascertaining growth and the market opportunity for this company.For reference:Here's the master list I used with Quora links to university topic pages preserved so going back to update can be done easily. This list is also a way to view the data set sorted by USNWR ranking from highest to lowest [as of 2012-03-21]:Harvard University - 5322 followersPrinceton University - 1470 followersYale University - 1585 followersColumbia University - 1948 followersCalifornia Institute of Technology - 777 followersMassachusetts Institute of Technology - 3807 followersStanford University - 8543 followersUniversity of Chicago - 930 followersUniversity of Pennsylvania - 1372 followersDuke University - 1090 followersDartmouth College - 768 followersNorthwestern University - 899 followersJohns Hopkins University - 544 followersWashington University in St. Louis - 467 followersBrown University - 664 followersCornell University - 1365 followersRice University - 141 followersVanderbilt University - 278 followersUniversity of Notre Dame - 304 followersEmory University - 298 followersUniversity of California, Berkeley - 3267 followersGeorgetown University - 353 followersCarnegie-Mellon University - 2176 followersUniversity of Southern California - 1635 followersUniversity of California, Los Angeles - 1749 followersUniversity of Virginia - 480 followersWake Forest University - 168 followersUniversity of Michigan (Ann Arbor) - 1303 followersTufts University - 341 followersUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - 612 followersBoston College - 394 followersBrandeis University - 96 followersThe College of William & Mary - 39 followersNew York University - 2142 followersUniversity of Rochester - 187 followersGeorgia Institute of Technology - 936 followersUniversity of California, San Diego - 979 followersCase Western Reserve University - 83 followersLehigh University - 85 followersUniversity of California, Davis - 693 followersUniversity of Miami - 241 followersUniversity of California, Santa Barbara - 934 followersUniversity of Washington - 760 followersUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison - 245 followersPennsylvania State University - 344 followersUniversity of California, Irvine - 622 followersUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 497 followersThe University of Texas at Austin - 799 followersYeshiva University - 40 followersThe George Washington University - 582 followersRensselaer Polytechnic Institute - 280 followersTulane University - 148 followersBoston University - 614 followersFordham University - 123 followersThe Ohio State University - 576 followersPepperdine University - 100 followersUniversity of Maryland, College Park - 357 followersTexas A&M University (TAMU) - 506 followersThe University of Connecticut - 105 followersUniversity of Florida - 921 followersUniversity of Pittsburgh - 249 followersNortheastern University - 444 followersPurdue University - 482 followersSouthern Methodist University - 83 followersSyracuse University - 543 followersUniversity of Georgia - 215 followersWorcester Polytechnic - 104 followersClemson University - 158 followersRutgers University - 394 followersUniversity of Minnesota - Twin Cities - 40 followersBrigham Young University - 615 followersMichigan State University - 592 followersUniversity of Iowa - 421 followersVirginia Tech - 593 followersBaylor University - 160 followersColorado School of Mines - 29 followersIndiana University- 732 followersUniversity of Alabama - 162 followersUniversity of California, Santa Cruz - 512 followersUniversity of Delaware - 132 followersUniversity of Tulsa - 35 followersAmerican University- 266 followersAuburn University - 293 followersMarquette University - 162 followersSUNY ESF - N/AUniversity of Denver - 105 followersUniversity of Vermont - 163 followersDrexel University - 156 followersStevens Institute of Technology Placement - 49 followersBinghamton University (SUNY) - 82 followersMiami University - 241 followersSaint Louis University - 9 followersUniversity of Missouri-Columbia - 185 followersClark University - 30 followersUniversity of Colorado Boulder - 255 followersUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst - 265 followersIowa State University - 114 followersTexas Christian University - 34 followersUniversity of California, Riverside - 279 followersUniversity of San Diego - 59 followersFlorida State University - 453 followers

This answer may contain sensitive images. Click on an image to unblur it.Your question has many flaws and plays on the myth that it is more economically feasible to take an individuals than to house that individual, as I will discuss later. All I will say now is that it has been proven time and time again that it is cost effective for the tax payers to ban the death penalty; housing an inmate is by far the most economical choice.You also imply that it is okay for the state to take another person's life because an individual took a life. This type of reasoning leads to giving the state the right to take a life with no moral implications. This reasoning is far worse than the economic challenges that the death penalty brings.I am somewhat of an armchair expert on executions, at least for the state of Georgia. I worked at the GDoC for three years. I worked at the location in Jackson where the state's executions are carried out. I worked every day with death row inmates. How the state executes people fascinated me. I studied every aspect of how an individual on death row leads their life up to the extinguishment of their life.Before I worked there, I was all for the death penalty. I thought that if they committed the crime, they should pay the price. But as I worked with the inmates more and more I started to study capital punishment. I came to the conclusion that the death penalty is wrong and immoral.The United States Is the only Western Society which still Practices Capital PunishmentThe death penalty is legal in 31 states and in the federal and military legal systems. The US is the only country in the west (the EU, UK, Canada, & Mexico) which still has the death penalty (with the exception of Belarus) and is one of only five industrialized democracies that still practice capital punishment: Japan, Singapore, St. Kitts & Nevis, and Taiwan. South Korea currently has a moratorium in effect.The United States is fifth in the world per numbers when it comes to executions (35) with Iraq (61+), Saudi Arabia (90+), Iran (289+), and China leading the way at number one with 1000+. Do we really want to be lumped with these countries?Exoneration: Close Call with DeathCapital crimes or capital offenses are crimes which can result in the death penalty which are first degree murder, terrorism, and espionage. Of all the executions from 1992 through 2004, 39 executions has had compelling evidence of innocence or serious doubt about guilt.I'm not arguing that there aren't people who do horrendous acts, but our system proves that it isn't 100% at proving a man's guilt. Since 1970, there have been 156 exonerations of prisoners on death row. The following list is proof that the criminal justice system in the US is flawed.1970–19791977Delbert Tibbs, Florida. Convicted1980–19891987Joseph Green Brown. He was re-arrested in 2012 and charged with another murder in North Carolina.Perry Cobb. Illinois. Convicted October 15, 1979.Darby J. Tillis. Illinois. Convicted October 15, 1979. Perry Cobb and Darby Tillis, two African American men were convicted of First Degree Murder after a third trial by an all-white jury. The primary witness in the case, Phyllis Santini, was determined to be an accomplice of the actual killer by the Illinois Supreme Court. The Judge in the case, Thomas J. Maloney was later convicted of accepting bribes.1989Randall Dale Adams, Texas (Ex Parte Adams, 768 S.W.2d 281) (Tex. Crim App. 1989). Convicted 1977. The Adams case was the subject of The Thin Blue Line (1988 film).On April 8, 2010, former death row inmate Timothy B. Hennis, once exonerated in 1989, was reconvicted of a triple murder, thereby dropping him from the list of those exonerated.1990–19991993Walter McMillian, Alabama. Convicted 1988.Gregory R. Wilhoit, Oklahoma. Convicted 1987. Along with Ron Williamson, Wilhoit later became the subject of John Grisham's 2006 non-fiction book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town1995Robert Charles Cruz, Illinois. Convicted 1966. (Cruz disappeared in 1997. His remains were found in 2007.)1996Joseph Burrows, Illinois. Convicted 1989. Joseph Burrows was released from death row after his attorney Kathleen Zellner persuaded the real killer to confess at the post-conviction hearing, and Peter Rooney, a reporter for the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, obtained a recantation from a key witness. The Burrows case was the subject of a book by Rooney titled Die Free: A True Story of Murder, Betrayal and Miscarried Justice.Gary Gauger Illinois. Convicted 1995.1999Shareef Cousin, Louisiana (Louisiana v. Cousin, 710 So. 2d 1065 (1998)). Convicted 1996.Anthony Porter, Illinois. Convicted 1983.Ron Williamson, Oklahoma. Convicted 1988. Along with Gregory R. Wilhoit, Williamson later became the inspiration for and subject of John Grisham's 2006 non-fiction book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town.2000–20092000Earl Washington, Jr., Virginia (pardoned). Convicted 1994 (1984, without life sentence).2002Juan Roberto Melendez-Colon, Florida. Convicted 1984.Ray Krone, Arizona (State v. Krone, 897 P.2d 621 (Ariz. 1995) (en banc)). Convicted 1992.2003Nicholas Yarris, Pennsylvania Convicted 1982.John Thompson, Louisiana. Convicted 1985.2004Alan Gell, North Carolina. Convicted 19952008Glen Edward Chapman, North Carolina. Convicted 1995.Levon "Bo" Jones, North Carolina. Convicted 1993.Michael Blair, Texas. Convicted 1994.2009Nathson Fields, Illinois. Convicted 1986.Paul House, Tennessee. Convicted 1986.Daniel Wade Moore, Alabama. Convicted 2002.Ronald Kitchen, Illinois. Convicted 1988.Michael Toney, Texas. Convicted 1999. Toney later died in a car accident on October 3, 2009, just one month and a day after his exoneration.2010–20152010Joe D'Ambrosio, Ohio. Convicted 1989. While he was freed in 2010, but not yet exonerated, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the state of Ohio challenging the unconditional writ of habeas corpus and bar to D'Ambrosio's re-prosecution on January 23, 2012, nearly 2 years later, making D'Ambrosio the 140th death row exoneree since 1973.Anthony Graves, Texas. Convicted 1994.2011Gussie Vann, Tennessee. Convicted 1984.2012Damon Thibodeaux, Louisiana. Convicted 1997.Seth Penalver, Florida. Convicted 1994.2013Reginald Griffin, Missouri. Convicted 1983.2014Glenn Ford, Louisiana. Convicted 1984.Carl Dausch, Florida. Convicted 2011.Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown, North Carolina. Convicted 1984.Ricky Jackson and Wiley Bridgeman, Ohio. Convicted 1975.Kwame Ajamu (formerly Ronnie Bridgeman), Ohio. Convicted 1975.2015Debra Milke, Arizona. Convicted 1990.Anthony Ray Hinton, Alabama. Convicted 1985.Willie Manning, Mississippi. Convicted 1996.Alfred Brown, Texas. Convicted 2005.Lawrence William Lee, Georgia. Convicted 1987.Derral Wayne Hodgkins, Florida. Convicted 2013.William Antunes, Massachusetts. Convicted 1990Is A Life Sentence Really A Life In Prison?What partly fuels the myth that serving a life sentence is far more costly than the death penalty is that when somebody is served a life sentence, that individual actually serves a life sentence.When a person is handed down a verdict of life, does that really mean the individual will live until he breathes his last breath in a prison cell? Most of the time that individual will be released before he dies.There are two types of life sentences: Indeterminate life sentence and determinate life sentence. An indeterminate sentence is usually "15 years to life" or "25 years to life" and can be released on parole after 10 years. A determinant sentence is usually a sentence of "life without the possibility of parole," but someone with money and a crafty attorney can usually avoid this type of sentencing. Government officials of a particular state may have the power to grant amnesty, reprieves, or commute a sentence to time served.There are very rare cases where a person serves the rest of their life in prison because they are sentenced to a life sentence. Somebody who is on death row has a greater probability of serving more time than somebody serving a life sentence.When the constitution was written, the time between sentencing and execution could be measured in days or weeks. Death row inmates in the U.S. typically spend over a decade awaiting execution. Michael Ross, a Connecticut inmate who had been on death row for 17 years. Some prisoners have been on death row for well over 20 years.Why so long on death row? Death-penalty proponents and opponents alike say such careful review is imperative when the stakes are life and death. “People are adamant . . . that every avenue should be exhausted to make sure there is no chance (the condemned) is not guilty,” former Georgia Attorney General Mike Bowers said in 2001. “The surer you are, the slower you move.” (Atlanta Constitution, October 27, 2001).It's Cheaper to Kill than to House an InmateIt is a widely held belief that tax payers pay more for somebody who is serving a life sentence than for someone on death row. Richard C. Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center, reported that studies have “uniformly and conservatively shown that a death-penalty trial costs $1 million more than one in which prosecutors seek life without parole.”“a 2004 Report from Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury Office of Research that claimed “[i]n Tennessee, death penalty trials cost an average of 48% more than the average cost of trials in which prosecutors seek life imprisonment.”And,This study [The Cost of the Death Penalty in Maryland] assesses the death penalty's costs to Maryland taxpayers by examining a sample of the 1,136 death-eligible murder cases occurring between 1978 and 1999. We find that an average capital-eligible case in which prosecutors did not seek the death penalty will cost approximately $1.1 million over the lifetime of the case. A capital-eligible case in which prosecutors unsuccessfully sought the death penalty will cost $1.8 million and a capital-eligible case resulting in a death sentence will cost approximately $3 million. In total, we forecast that the lifetime costs to Maryland taxpayers of these capitally-prosecuted cases will be $186 million.The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice issued a report concludes, that “[i]t can certainly be said that death penalty trials take longer and cost considerably more than non-death murder trials.”Amnesty International concludes thatUsing conservative rough projections, the Commission estimates the annual costs of the present system ($137 million per year), the present system after implementation of the reforms ... ($232.7 million per year) ... and a system which imposes a maximum penalty of lifetime incarceration instead of the death penalty ($11.5 million)."A 2003 legislative audit in Kansas found that the estimated cost of a death penalty case was 70% more than the cost of a comparable non-death penalty case. Death penalty case costs were counted through to execution (median cost $1.26 million). Non-death penalty case costs were counted through to the end of incarceration (median cost $740,000).Is the Death Penalty Really A Deterrent Against Crime?The death penalty is not an effective deterrent against crime. In all the states which has the death penalty, crime continues to rise.A survey by The New York Times shows that the 12 states without capital punishment have homicide rates below the national average. The survey also found that during the last 20 years, the homicide rate in states with the death penalty has been "48 percent to 101 percent higher" than in states "without the death penalty."LastlyTo answer your question, "Should the death penalty ever be used (if yes, in which cases) and why?"No.The death penalty should never be used. The arguments are moot when we can not prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the crime was committed by the accused. And even if there is 100% proof of guilt, the death penalty should not be used.The death penalty is an expression of the absolute power of the state; by this I mean that the death penalty gives the state the right to kill someone as to make them an example. In order to show how immoral killing someone is, we will kill someone to prove it: this is one of the worst reasons for the death penalty. How can it be said that it's against the law to go out and kill somebody when the state does precisely that?My answer is an answer to state sponsored murder: The death penalty. I know that the verdict of the death penalty is handed down by 12 individuals who have heard all the facts and not the verdict of the state. But the problem lies in the fact that the state gave these persons sitting on the jury the power to take a life . . . therefore it is the state (indirectly) which takes the life of an individual.What conclusion should you come away with after reading this? A person serving life rarely ever serves life. A person on death row most likely will serve either more time than a lifer or close to the equivalent and cost more.So, outside of taking the power to kill away from the state, it is economically feasible to do away with the death penalty if we look at it from an economical view point.This is just my opinion and you are free to disagree with me.

The House of Representatives should be the Cube Root of the Population of each State or DC Cube root of 2010 Population UNITED STATES 676 Alabama 168 Alaska 89 Arizona 186 Arkansas 143 California 334 Colorado 171 Connecticut 153 Delaware 96 District of Columbia 84 Florida 266 Georgia 213 Hawaii 111 Idaho 116 Illinois 234 Indiana 186 Iowa 145 Kansas 142 Kentucky 163 Louisiana 166 Maine 110 Maryland 179 Massachusetts 187 Michigan 215 Minnesota 174 Mississippi 144 Missouri 182 Montana 100 Nebraska 122 Nevada 139 New Hampshire 110 New Jersey 206 New Mexico 127 New York 269 North Carolina 212 North Dakota 88 Ohio 226 Oklahoma 155 Oregon 156 Pennsylvania 233 Rhode Island 102 South Carolina 167 South Dakota 93 Tennessee 185 Texas 293 Utah 140 Vermont 86 Virginia 200 Washington 189 West Virgi(more)