I guess the Epicureans get a free pass. I wonder what the map would look like if they counted the number of restaurants charging more than $40 a meal? Fast Food restaurants are more an indicator of private car use, workers having multiple jobs and families with children than they are of Gluttony.
I agree. Fast food restaurants may correlate to many things besides gluttony and the parameters they used for sloth are both ambiguous and hard to justify. I might want to factor in welfare expenditures rather than spending on the arts for a measure of sloth.
There is something fundamentally flawed with this and I can’t pinpoint it.
Don’t we have to see population density? Shouldn’t the statistical analysis be normalized by density or even plotted vs density rather than per-capita.
Everybody knows So Cal is the car theft capitol of the world, yet it doesn’t even register on the charts presented.
+2.6 STd represents about 1.9% — meaning that all those solid red area’s shown, represent the top 1.9% of troublesome areas for that statistic.
Worthless information without density distribution.
Vast conclusions, based upon a half-vast data base.
As for the methodology and ‘scientific premises’, I’m still looking for them.
No luck so far.
Tomorrow doesn’t look promising, either.
I wonder if a government research grant paid for this?
Shouldn't the Godless Democrats be represented by the blue states?
Oh wait, the Godless Commie rat bastards SWAPPED the color schemes just BEFORE we forever called "territories" RED STATE or BLUE STATE.
The Republicans are in TRUE BLUE land.
And I'm not buying ANY mapping system that doesn't flag ENVY in the regions of Socialist Liberal Dominance.