Land of the drunkards?

[Pi1otguy]

http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/BingeDrinking/index.html

More than 38 million US adults binge drink*, about 4 times a month, and the largest number of drinks per binge is on average 8.
(snip)

• Age group that binge drinks most often: 65+ years
• Income group with most binge drinkers: more than $75,000
• Most people who binge drink are not alcohol dependent or alcoholics.

Must say, I'm actually surprised at this among the other findings. What does this mean?

 

[Jim Logajan]

http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/BingeDrinking/index.html

Must say, I'm actually surprised at this among the other findings. What does this mean?

"SOURCE: 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Combined Landline and Cell Phone Developmental Dataset, adults aged 18 and older, US"

I think it means both their methodology and unstated assumptions might have problems.


More on their telephone surveys here: http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.htm


Here is the document that contains the survey questions (just section 13 with 5 questions relate to alcohol):
http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/questionnaires/pdf-ques/2010brfss.pdf

 

[Jim Logajan]

Next question: did they really go out and test everyone's BAC for this survey? :wink2:

No - it was atelephone survey. None of the 5 questions used the phrase "short period of time." The web page in the first post of this thread invented that concept.