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The alcohol consumed is very dubious for Finland. That report states 13.10 litres per capita a year, while official statistics from 2012 says 9.6 litres. Finland has never reached 13 litres since 1960 when collection of stats began.
Vice? What is Vice? A willingness to do something that is disapproved of within the formal and rigid rules of a group of people defining the term "vice" to apply to their own culture.
In modern western society, it is pretty much limited to sex (specifically excluded from this study) and recreational substances, since the movements to stamp out things like dancing and playing cards and driving automobiles and shaving beards and wearing cosmetics have been marginalized..
If you want to live in a country with no Vice, I guess places like Mexico and Thailand are the places to go. No vice there.
Does anybody have any links that might reveal where this information came from, what is its context, and what it purports to show? Oh, wait, I found the link at Google: http://www.bloomberg.com/slideshow/2...ice-index.html
The methodology is "on the final slide", if anybody can figure out how the hell to get there. There ought to be a world-wide ban on forum links and references to BS "slideshows" like this from all crap publications like Bloomerg and Forbes.
Vice? What is Vice? A willingness to do something that is disapproved of within the formal and rigid rules of a group of people using the term "vice".
In modern western society, it is pretty much limited to sex (specifically excluded from this study) and recreational substances, since the movements to stamp out things like dancing and playing cards and driving automobiles have been marginalized..
If you want to live in a country with no Vice, I guess places like Mexico and Thailand are the places to go.
Does anybody have any links that might reveal where this information came from, what is its context, and what it purports to show?
I think countries like Mexico and Thailand have a lot more "vice" than the countries listed above them. It just depends on what you call a vice.
Four variables, including total adult per capita alcohol consumption, total adult per capita cigarette consumption, annual prevalence of drug use (a percentage of the population ages 15-64) and total gambling losses as a percentage of GDP , were taken for the analysis.
The level of drug use or abuse does not automatically result in more or less decadence.
Be careful about cause and effect. It could be that drug abuse could be the result of more or less decadence.
Discussion forums (and Bloomberg articles) are built upon the ignorance of the law that, as you correctly but partially state, two events that both occur are not necessarily the cause of one another. And, as they say, ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Given observed events A and B, you have several causative possibilities:
A caused B
B caused A
A and B were both caused by C
A and B's causations were completely independent of each other.
A and/or B did not occur at all, and appear through faulty observation.
A and/or B occurred, but have been misdescribed using currently fashionable loaded buzzwords and platitudes.
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Total score 64.5 !!!
