America's Most Sinful Cities
Forbes | Either too much time on their hands or to much fun at work.
They say geography is destiny, but perhaps it is damnation as well. We have unveiled the American city that has fallen the farthest from grace in each of the seven deadly sins ( lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy and pride). For each sin we stretched our imagination to find a workable proxy--murder rates for wrath, per capita billionaires for avarice--then culled the available data sources to rank the cities. Some of the results were surprising: Salt Lake City as America's Vainest City. Some were not: Detroit as America's Most Murderous.
Huge problems with their methodology (such as, for "lust", counting strict unit sales of contraceptives rather than the medical standards of days-of-protection-provided and ignoring abortions, which politics aside are certainly treated like birth control). Still, check out their fun-but-difficult-to-embed interactive map!
Forbes | Either too much time on their hands or to much fun at work.
They say geography is destiny, but perhaps it is damnation as well. We have unveiled the American city that has fallen the farthest from grace in each of the seven deadly sins ( lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy and pride). For each sin we stretched our imagination to find a workable proxy--murder rates for wrath, per capita billionaires for avarice--then culled the available data sources to rank the cities. Some of the results were surprising: Salt Lake City as America's Vainest City. Some were not: Detroit as America's Most Murderous.
Huge problems with their methodology (such as, for "lust", counting strict unit sales of contraceptives rather than the medical standards of days-of-protection-provided and ignoring abortions, which politics aside are certainly treated like birth control). Still, check out their fun-but-difficult-to-embed interactive map!
