Australia most sinful nation: BBC Study

Sure to sting some, interesting nonetheless

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MELBOURNE: Australia, the home of cricket legend Don Bradman, singing sensation Kylie Minougue, is also the land of world's top sinners, a new study has claimed.

Envy is the biggest weakness of people down under in a study of the seven sins - lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.

A team of British researchers number-crunched the global differences in the deadly sins and found, when you add up the wrongdoings, Australia is at the top, according to BBC's Focus magazine.

The US topped the table for gluttony while South Korea topped the list for lust. Iceland ranked number one for both pride and sloth and Mexico got the highest rank for greed.

The article, which argues that people are "bad" by nature, has found social data to compare nations under these categories of sins.

To determine a nation's quota of wrath, the researchers examined levels of violent crime by comparing incidents of assault, rape and murder per 1,000 people.

For sloth, they looked at the number of days off workers have, while for pride the comparison was made on plastic surgery rates per capita.

The researchers studied the amount of time spent by people on porn to assess the ranking of lust. Greed was determined by the percentage of the population with annual earnings less than 50% of the median value.

Gluttony was calculated on the basis of nations' per capita spending 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. The results rank a top nation for each sin, news.com.au reported on Thursday.

Australians, are the best, or perhaps worst, sinners, scoring 46 points, ahead of the US on 32 points and Canada on 24. Britain came sixth overall, the website said.

Australia was ranked third for lust and gluttony, fourth for greed and pride, seventh for wrath and ninth for sloth.

I knew there was something I liked about them.

That is all.

Henry wrote:



That is all.

Bugger ....
If only the UK topped the poll and Warne played for England ...
Damn ...

Everyone knows Aus sold its soul to the devil to be sporting facists.

Is that the Colonel in your avatar, JK?
"It's a rat, Fawlty - a rat!"

Indeed

Is the article from The Sport?

you lot are just jealous that oz is badder than you, and we had warnie the greatest texter of all and spinner.

so all I can say Is "Suck it up princess"

CT wrote:so all I can say Is "Suck it up princess"

She usually did by all accounts.

I have observed that English men do not like to bathe regularly.
To test this hypothesis, I'm going to ask soap manufacturers and supermarkets, how much of their product they sell to men.


What!?
It's scientifically impeccable, just like the article.


And what's with Korea being the most lustful? Has Tiger moved?

Poor Aussies. Of the seven sins, envy is the least fun.

You're just jealous that SA didn't even get a mention...


'bad to the bone...b-b-b-b-bad to the bone...'

Racist BBC. This is a regional discrimination against us. This is all a conspiracy against BCCI & India. After all we taught the world how to make lust last longer in Kamasutra.....

well ain't that a shocker fancy the BBC being discriminatory against BCCI and India. can't trust those britishers they will treat you colonials poorly. lol

well the brits had to learn how too and lust was a good place to start I guess.