The BBC run an article entitled UK teenage girls 'worst drunks'.
[Yadda, yadda, waffle] ... ah, here we go:
One in five 13-year-olds in the UK reports having been drunk twice - four times higher than countries such as the United States, Sweden and the Netherlands. Among 15-year-old girls in the UK, 50% reported getting drunk, almost three times higher than their counterparts in France. The rate for boys in the UK in this age group getting drunk is 44%.
Yup, that's right. Not "drunk at least twice in the past week"; they really do mean "drunk at least twice in their whole lives so far", and what counts as "drunk" is not actually specified.
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Gloriously misleading statistics of the day
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And no-one ever, ever lies on these kind of surveys, do they...?
One in five 13-year-olds in the UK reports having been drunk twice.
Well, I was too when I was 13 so nothing's really changed that way.
Bah. If you can't hold your drink, don't drink it. Jessies the lot of them.
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