On 2014-11-04 at 15:42:09 +0100, Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote: > litres per capita drunk aren't very indicative of the way the presence > of alcool at an event is related to social pressure at drinking; > it is a bad indicator for lots of other things, actually, > since it is expecially bad at distinguing between a population > of mostly moderate drinkers and one where people are mostly > at the extremes of the scale (either non-drinkers or heavy drinkers).
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_culture#Binge_drinking "The highest levels of both binge-drinking and drunkenness are found in the Nordic countries, UK, Ireland, Slovenia and Latvia. This contrasts with the low levels found in France, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Romania – for example, binge-drinking more than twice in the last month was reported by 31% of boys and 33% of girls in Ireland, but in comparison 12%-13% of boys and 5%-7% of girls in France and Hungary." where many binge-drinking countries are lower that most non-binge-drinking contries in the alcohol consumption table on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption#WHO_statistics (unluckily, the ref points to a broken link, however) -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
