Daily Beast Ranks America’s Craziest Cities…
based on psychiatrists per capita, stress, eccentricity and drinking levels. Where do you think Seattle fell?
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 12, 2010 at 10:04AM
7 Comments
If you believe The Daily Beast, Cincinnati is America’s craziest city. Seattle? We rank 19th, slightly less crazy than Pittsburgh (and Portland, # 17), but more crazy than Columbus, Ohio. (I should hope so!) We got pretty high marks for drinking, however, a 25 out of a possible 57.
Drinking scores were determined based on “heavy drinking, defined as two drinks a day or more for men, and one drink a day or more for women. With data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2008.”
One drink a day or more for women is “heavy drinking?” That’s crazy!
Tags: Booze News, Seattle in the News
The fact that you choose to put a photo of anime cosplayers on your article where you whine about Seattle not being as crazy as other cities shows that you and your editorial staff don’t understand what crazy really is.
Brian: thanks for commenting. Totally respect your opinion. It does make me wonder though, what do you think would have been an appropriate photo for me to use?
How about something representing mental health treatment, like a doctor listening to a patient who’s on a couch? Or go with the drinking portion of the story, and use a picture of some booze.
Nolly: Doctor and patient thing could have worked, as therapy was one of the ways in which Daily Beast measured “crazy.” But if you look at the Daily Beast’s methodology, you see this is a very tongue-in-cheek definition of “crazy.” One of the measures is “eccentricity: How crazy, wacky, and weird each city is, compiled with help from travel writer, and student of all things eccentric, Mike Barish.” The image accompanying the original piece is of a parade reveler who seems to be having what you might call a crazy good time. Were people that like to party in mardi gras parades offended by that image? Maybe, but I doubt it.
Appropriate Photo: My Aunt Maxine
Wow, Jess. You sure are patient and kind with answering not so bright objections from Brian and Nolly.
Thank you Andrew. If only I had started with a photo of Nick’s Aunt Maxine, everyone would have been happy.