[OSM-talk] discussion: inclusion and alcohol

[Elena ``of Valhalla'']

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''