Australia world's most sinful nation
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United States ranked one for gluttony
- Australia ranked 1 for sinning
- South Korea ranked 1 for lust
- United States ranked 1 for gluttony
AUSTRALIANS are the worst sinners in the world, British researchers have decided.
In a study of 35 countries, Australians come up as the most likely to commit one of the biblical seven deadly sins.
An article in the February edition of Focus, a UK magazine produced by the BBC, states Australians rank first for envy and third for lust and gluttony.
The authors used a points system to determine which countries committed the seven deadly sins - lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride - the most.
They measured a nation's tendency towards being sloths, for example, by looking at the number of days they took off work. When a country finished first in a category it was awarded 10 points. A second placing gathered nine points, and so on for all placings in the top 10.
The final tally deemed Australians the most "sin-prone", followed by people in the US, Canada, Finland and Spain.
Despite a documented love of taking sickies, sloth is the sin Australians are least likely to commit, with eight other countries considered lazier, the report shows.
Only six nationalities were considered more wrathful and three were more greedy or proud.
University of Adelaide Emeritus Professor Chilla Bulbeck, from the School of Social Sciences, said the results and criteria used to uncover them were questionable.
"Australians did well with the low ranking in the sloth category, but why not measure the length of the average working week, showing unpaid hours of work?
"The article also tends to focus on what men do or experience rather than women.
"Domestic violence is the most common assault experienced by women, but it's not factored into the wrath category."
James Cook University social demographer Dr Sue Bandaranaike said: "The US, Canada and Australia are the most obese countries in the world so when you see them finish in the gluttony section in that order, it's no surprise."
Topping each of the sin categories were South Korea (lust), the US (gluttony), Mexico (greed), Iceland (sloth and pride), South Africa (wrath) and Australia (envy).
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
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Offline Huh, thats odd... I was sure that America would have...
Greed (greed of american elite cause a global recession)
Gluttony (fatass't country in the world)
Wrath (worlds highest murder rate, high ranking violence all around, 2 ongoing wars)
Pride (amuricas #1! US A US A US A!)
Sloth (actually, i dont have any examples for this one... seeing i would just lump it in with gluttony)
... in the fucking bag o_O?
Thanks for showing Canadians are the most envious.
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To determine a nation's quota of wrath, the researchers examined levels of violent crime by comparing incidents of assault, rape and murder per 1000 people.
For sloth, they looked at the number of days off workers have. For pride the comparison was made on plastic surgery rates per capita, and for lust they looked at the amount people spent on porn.
Greed was determined by the percentage of the population with annual earnings less than 50 per cent of the median value, gluttony was found by calculating how much per capita a nation wasted on calorie-rich fast food, and envy was described as being jealous of others' possessions and calculated using statistics for burglary, robbery and car theft.
For each of the sins, the researchers awarded 10 points to the nation with the highest score, and then decreasing points to countries that, for each sin, could boast of being in the top 10.
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Australia was ranked third for lust and gluttony, fourth for greed and pride, seventh for wrath and ninth for sloth.
Fascinating. Wonder where the Brits ranked themselves on this scale? And, moreover, I wonder where they would have ranked if, for example, a nations pride had been measured also by their collective expenditure on make-up, false nails and haute couture instead of just plastic surgery. Or gluttony on the size and calorie content of an average meal instead of just the income of global fast food chains which don't serve the same food in different countries. Or greed calculated with an offset based on the charitable donation per head of capita.
And it's kind of bogus that we win the Envy category which is clearly for our outstanding record of successful "chop shop" operations, the irony of that just makes me laugh.
This is the first attempt to do such a study, and it's got some flaws, obviously... since us Aussies are fucken perfect and that's all there is to it. 
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Couriermail wrote:To determine a nation's quota of wrath, the researchers examined levels of violent crime by comparing incidents of assault, rape and murder per 1000 people.
For sloth, they looked at the number of days off workers have. For pride the comparison was made on plastic surgery rates per capita, and for lust they looked at the amount people spent on porn.
Greed was determined by the percentage of the population with annual earnings less than 50 per cent of the median value, gluttony was found by calculating how much per capita a nation wasted on calorie-rich fast food, and envy was described as being jealous of others' possessions and calculated using statistics for burglary, robbery and car theft.
For each of the sins, the researchers awarded 10 points to the nation with the highest score, and then decreasing points to countries that, for each sin, could boast of being in the top 10.
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Australia was ranked third for lust and gluttony, fourth for greed and pride, seventh for wrath and ninth for sloth.
Fascinating. Wonder where the Brits ranked themselves on this scale? And, moreover, I wonder where they would have ranked if, for example, a nations pride had been measured also by their collective expenditure on make-up, false nails and haute couture instead of just plastic surgery. Or gluttony on the size and calorie content of an average meal instead of just the income of global fast food chains which don't serve the same food in different countries. Or greed calculated with an offset based on the charitable donation per head of capita.
And it's kind of bogus that we win the Envy category which is clearly for our outstanding record of successful "chop shop" operations, the irony of that just makes me laugh.
This is the first attempt to do such a study, and it's got some flaws, obviously... since us Aussies are fucken perfect and that's all there is to it.
but surely you must rank high for lust?
i mean, seriously?
this is information i NEED to know! 
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And the U.S. proudly takes the gold.
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Huh, thats odd... I was sure that America would have...
Greed (greed of american elite cause a global recession)
Gluttony (fatass't country in the world)
Wrath (worlds highest murder rate, high ranking violence all around, 2 ongoing wars)
Pride (amuricas #1! US A US A US A!)
Sloth (actually, i dont have any examples for this one... seeing i would just lump it in with gluttony)
... in the fucking bag o_O?
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fuck is Sudan or any of those badass countries where everyone has an AK-47? P'raps the report should be: "Of all the countries chilled enough not to murder us for doing this report, Australia is the most sinful, US the keenest on super sizing. Koreans are the lustiest? Come on....
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
Yeah for Austrlia!!! Keep up the good work, and feel good about telling religio's what they can do with their more--al--I--tee. While Canada & the U.S. of eh? sit back and eat up.
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VEGETARIAN: Ancient Hindu word for "lousy hunter"
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Australians are fatter than Americans.
We are #24 in terms of per capita murder rate. We do engage in a lot of warfare though.
We are bad, but there are worse out there.
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British General Charles Napier while in India
In defense of australia, i've never seen a fat australian... o_O (maybe the fat ones dont travel? )
No no, you cant pull the "per capita" bullshit, total numbers is total numbers
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