alcohol prefered drug of choice

[dougsbrew]

99% of us have experienced alcohol. where is that other 1% hiding..
surprised nitrous polled so well !

 

[Nick JD]

This must be a sample of 18-25 year olds.

You cannot convince me that a quarter of the population was wasted on pills at some point in the last year...

 

[dougsbrew]

Overall, the 6600 respondents were an educated, healthy, heterosexual, Anglo-Saxon and well-off bunch - about a quarter earned over $100,000 each year.
The survey is the biggest ever undertaken in Australia examining current illegal drug users, with about two-thirds of people using them in the past year, and about 45 per cent in the past month.

 

[bruce86]

could they give Ecstasy any more names???

 

[bruce86]

and what does sexuality have anything to do with it...

 

[dougsbrew]

and what does sexuality have anything to do with it...

seriously???

 

[Droughtmaster]

poofter that smokes dope darling

 

[bruce86]

yeah really ? bogons typically smoke dope well in our gen mate lol

 

[dougsbrew]

poofter that smokes dope darling

i think cockos thread 'smoking meat' is more up their alley - pardon the puns..

 

[Droughtmaster]

u would like cocko trust me will love u

 

[djar007]

looks like a sample of underground miners weekly intake of drugs. Seriously . 6600 is a good sample of the population. Keywords to look out for are. Respondents , about a quarter , about two thirds and about a quarter. There is no about when it comes to statistics and surveys. And what sort of people respond to what sort of questions in what sort of context is anyones guess.

 

[dougsbrew]

yeah, good point, 1/4 earning over $100,000 per year. i guess the rest were uni students.

 

[Lecterfan]

Overall, the 6600 respondents were an educated, healthy, heterosexual, Anglo-Saxon and well-off bunch - about a quarter earned over $100,000 each year.
The survey is the biggest ever undertaken in Australia examining current illegal drug users, with about two-thirds of people using them in the past year, and about 45 per cent in the past month.

wow - 6,600 of the above to represent a quite disparate 22 million.

Global Drug Survey (source) home page is bragging of the 22,307 people that were involved world-wide...I wonder what that tells us about a planet that has busted the 7 billion mark?

No offence to OP, just have a pet peeve for shoddy stats and snake-oil salesman that hide behind (pseudo)'science'.

 

[manticle]

seriously???

Yes seriously.

I'm with Lecter

 

[Dave70]

seriously???

A gay friend of mine turned me onto poppers years ago.

So you must be right.

 

[tricache]

No offence to OP, just have a pet peeve for shoddy stats and snake-oil salesman that hide behind (pseudo)'science'.

Totally agree...IMO I'm always a bit suspect of statistics posted on the internet

 

[Airgead]

87.5% of statistics are made up on the spot...

However.....6600 participants is actually a pretty good sample size for a population wide study. Depending on what data you want. If you were looking for average heights then a survey of 6600 would get you pretty damn close. But then again... everyone has a height and not everyone does drugs. So depending on the percentage, quoted margin of error, confidence interval, etc, it may or may not be a representative sample.

Al lot of studies are much, much smaller. Political opinion poles are typically only a few hundred and many medical studies are done on tens of participants.

Without looking in detail at the methodology here (and dragging out my old stats textbooks) I can't say whether its a good sample or not.

But don't automatically dismiss a study just because it didn't sample the whole population...

Cheers
Dave

 

[mikec]

Is this the study done by Fairfax et al?
Some idea of the source and who these respondents were (socio-economic group) might give some credibility to the picture.

And Nick - you be surprised...

 

[Fents]

wheres the 2-ci, 2c-b, dmt and peyote!

 

[sponge]

No where to be found...