[agere_contra]

The highest drug use in Europe, highest incidence of sexually transmitted disease, highest number of single mothers

Remove Scotland from Britain, and what's left has rather average statistics.

This is similar to the way that homicide rates in the US are heavily influenced by 10% of its population.

[Tax-chick]

Really? I’d like to see the stats for that. Not that I don’t believe you, but I understand things better when I crunch the numbers myself ;-).