UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The study seems to be about first time having alcohol, but the reporting is equating this with alcohol abuse. I don’t think this is very good reporting at all. Your parents letting you have half a glass of champagne at a cousin’s wedding would seem to count here, but is a wildly different experience to the one implied by this reporting.

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  • MadBob@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even without reading the article, you can see they’re phrasing the highest rate of people who’d drunk once by 13 as the worst rate of child alcohol consumption. A lot of that consumption would’ve been legal and nothing untoward.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even without reading the article

      To be honest I thought the same, but I wanted to verify that the summary wasn’t simply misleading, which is why I went in and read the article in greater depth before commenting. Maybe the article itself had more to say. But nope, that’s really all there is to it.

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The reportage here may not be doing the study justice. They most likely used other metrics.

    I notice the BBC on same subject talks about children actually being drunk and about "last 30 days" both of which are better proxies.

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• Hedin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Beating the Russians at their own game? Impressive.

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• WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s only one answer. Whippets for kids. /s

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• red@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d bet on the French, or Finnish

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