Comments on: The Geography of porn.. http://www.edparsons.com/2006/05/the-geography-of-porn/ The blog of Ed Parsons, Geographer. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: swansea geography students http://www.edparsons.com/2006/05/the-geography-of-porn/#comment-364 swansea geography students Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:35:55 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=244#comment-364 we are second year students studying geography and weve been talking about how cool it would be to have a geography and porn studies joint honours degree, we found this website along the way when looking into it, we have taken these stats into acount and may infact contact some universities in birmingham, brisbane etc. to find out if they'd be interested in having such a joint honours degree, sincerely swansea geography depatement we are second year students studying geography and weve been talking about how cool it would be to have a geography and porn studies joint honours degree, we found this website along the way when looking into it, we have taken these stats into acount and may infact contact some universities in birmingham, brisbane etc. to find out if they’d be interested in having such a joint honours degree,
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]]> By: Thierry http://www.edparsons.com/2006/05/the-geography-of-porn/#comment-363 Thierry Mon, 15 May 2006 20:58:42 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=244#comment-363 I guess the value of such stats is in generating attention-grabbing results, rather than true results. Along similar lines my native country is apparently proudly leading the world in per capita alcohol consumption, ahead of the Hungarians and the Irish: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2877868 Whilst we do enjoy a drink or two, the stats however do not mention that the Luxembourgian tax regime encourages the Belgians, Germans and French to cross the border everyday to stock up on cheap booze. So if you distribute 'our' alcohol consumption amongst the neighbouring countries the geostatistical map would end up looking very different. I guess the value of such stats is in generating attention-grabbing results, rather than true results. Along similar lines my native country is apparently proudly leading the world in per capita alcohol consumption, ahead of the Hungarians and the Irish:

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2877868

Whilst we do enjoy a drink or two, the stats however do not mention that the Luxembourgian tax regime encourages the Belgians, Germans and French to cross the border everyday to stock up on cheap booze. So if you distribute ‘our’ alcohol consumption amongst the neighbouring countries the geostatistical map would end up looking very different.

]]> By: Alex http://www.edparsons.com/2006/05/the-geography-of-porn/#comment-362 Alex Sun, 14 May 2006 12:19:15 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=244#comment-362 Probably 'cos Brentford is the location of several quite major ISP facilities? C&W, BT and I think Pipex have sites there. There's a similar effect I noticed when Martin Stabe's blog started tracking user locations, showing that an alarming percentage of them were in Lambeth. Naturally, this was an artefact of the LINX being located in Tookey St SW1.. Probably ‘cos Brentford is the location of several quite major ISP facilities? C&W, BT and I think Pipex have sites there. There’s a similar effect I noticed when Martin Stabe’s blog started tracking user locations, showing that an alarming percentage of them were in Lambeth. Naturally, this was an artefact of the LINX being located in Tookey St SW1..

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