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| There’s an old quote misattributed to Mark Twain that says it’s not what you don’t know that gets you into trouble, it’s what you know that just ain’t so. So when Gallup posted some findings on drinking patterns in the US, I clicked on through to see if it might disabuse me of any persistent old myths. One finding lined up pretty closely to what we expect: the rich drink wine, the middle-class drink beer, and poor drink (cheap) liquor*.
So far, so good. But there was one surprising finding. There is a stereotype of the poor we sometimes visualize as a man sitting on a sway-backed porch, bottle in one hand, cigarette or rifle in the other. Well, turns out the poor are the least likely to be drinking. The wealthy, but a substantial margin, are the boozers. (And that correlates with education as well.) There appear to be other factors here as well–education, race, and religiosity. Education is correlated with wealth, so it’s not surprising that the educated drink more (that’s the bit I cli … |
Source: Beervana
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