British people get drunk more often than anyone else

[centermid7]

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/16/heal ... index.html

[MDMK]

and they needed a survey to tell them that?

[Dannie Boy]

Like most statistics that you read - you could drive a double decker bus through them. Are they really suggesting that the average times somebody gets drunk in the UK is 51 times a year = once a week for every person of drinking age? I can’t believe that Russians aren’t up there but they don’t even feature in the listing so presume they were not included in the survey!! Quite a few of our Thai neighbours appear to be in a perpetual state of drunkenness

[HHTel]

It completely contradicts many other stats.
This one for example but there are many more:

The 10 countries that drink the most alcohol, in liters per capita, ranked:

Moldova (17.4 liters per capita over 15+ years)
Belarus (17.1)
Lithuania (16.2)
Russia (14.5)
Czech Republic (14.1)
Romania (12.9)
Serbia (12.9)
Australia (12.6)
Portugal (12.5)
Slovakia (12.5)

[dtaai-maai]

Define 'drunk' (the survey doesn't appear to). I drink something most evenings, but I can't remember the last time I was drunk.

[lindosfan1]

There was a discussion on the radio yesterday about this. Define the definition of drunk according to what was said yesterday it could be as little as 2 pints of beer.
The article does not define the amount drunk, my ex sister in law could get drunk on 2 glasses of babycham. Her brother could drink 10 pints of beer and appear to be sober.
How was the survey done?
Waste of time.

[PeteC]

This was a survey based upon what 123,814 said. Can a person really remember that he/she got drunk 51/39/?? times in the past 12 months? Forget about how to define "drunk", as I would maintain it's a mental impossibility to remember how many times you were drunk over a previous 12 month period. The figures seem to point to most respondents being habitual alcoholics!

[HHTel]

Another money making survey which has no weight whatsoever. Their client/media partner list numbers almost 40 and includes publications like The Guardian among others.
Reports are paid for by their clients/media plus donations.

Hardly independent!

We produce reports for global media, public health and corporate organisations.

[MDMK]

they're designing (and selling, I presume) an app to monitor alcohol intake.... they're hardly going to say "well no need to worry in that country, they're well within safe limits"

However, that said, I do think Britain has "ishoos" around alcohol & binge drinking when compared to it's close neighbours across the channel.

[handdrummer]

I can remember being drunk 2 times in my life. Very unpleasant experiences. Alcoholics not withstanding, I never understood the fascination with being drunk.

[dtaai-maai]

I can remember being drunk 2 times in my life.

It's the times you can't remember that you need to worry about!

[HHTel]

However, that said, I do think Britain has "ishoos" around alcohol & binge drinking when compared to it's close neighbours across the channel.

Finland is much worse. However, they are getting to grips with it and it's reducing.

[handdrummer]

I can remember being drunk 2 times in my life.

It's the times you can't remember that you need to worry about!

There were only 2 and were so dreadful that I never wanted to get drunk again and didn't.