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5 Most Sinful Cities in America - TheStreet

Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 6 months ago to News
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I didn't know I'm living in #1, and former hometown being #4. Wow.
SOURCE URL: http://www.thestreet.com/story/11980303/1/5-most-sinful-cities-in-america.html

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  • Posted by LetsShrug 11 years, 6 months ago
    Their definition of greed is more than questionable. How do you measure someone elses disposable income? Sheesh.
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    • Posted by $ erudeen 11 years, 6 months ago
      Casino revenues.
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      • Posted by LetsShrug 11 years, 6 months ago
        Huh? I was talking about their measuring of sin list:
        Other measures the study used:

        Envy. Movoto quantified this sin by looking at each community's FBI property-crime rate, which counts how many burglaries, larcenies and car thefts occur each year per 1,000 residents.
        Gluttony. The study looked at the U.S. Centers for Diseases Control's latest estimates of each city's obesity rate.
        Greed. Nelson calculated Greed by using Philanthropy.com's figures of how much the average person in each locale gives to charity in a given year. The lower the percentage of disposable income donated, the higher the assumed greed.
        Lust. The site ranked each community's Lust level by determining the number of strip clubs per capita advertised on Yelp.com.
        Pride. Nelson measured Pride by calculating how many plastic surgeons each city has per capita, again based on Yelp.com listings.
        Sloth. Movoto judged Sloth by looking at CDC estimates of each city's inactivity rate, the percent of a community's population that's not physically active.
        Also...Envy is wrong (envy doesn't equal robbery....?)...and the Pride one should be "Vanity". This list sucks pretty bad.
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        • Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 6 months ago
          I agree with your last sentence. I thought the criteria wasn't detailed enough. I think they could have done better.
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          • Posted by LetsShrug 11 years, 6 months ago
            That was all cut and pasted except the first and last sentence..... Or did you just mean you agreed that the list sucked.
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            • Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 6 months ago
              That's why I said "last sentence" since I knew it was yours. My impression was that the study was done in a hurried fashion, and could have been done better, with greater detail. Like D.C., as khalling had asked. I was suprised that it wasn't in the top five. Especially for lust. I don't believe it was accurate enough.
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