Again, I think the study is bogus. Any study comparing the United States to countries like Denmark, Holland, Austria, and Sweden that doesn't take into account the fact that there are more people in California than in all those states combined isn't going to be very informative. How about comparing individual U.S. states to some of these countries? There are more people in Massachusetts than there are in Austria - why not compare them? The U.S. is too big and too diverse for comparisons to small, unitary societies to be informative.
I'd be willing to speculate this researcher probably already had this conclusion in mind, and found data and methodology to support it.
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Date: 2005-09-29 02:22 pm (UTC)I'd be willing to speculate this researcher probably already had this conclusion in mind, and found data and methodology to support it.