gina

While voting on the latest Alcohol Focus Scotland poll I had a peek around the rest of the site and found a link to the Gender Issues Network on Alcohol. Not heard of them? They are an umbrella organisation for fakecharities such as Alcohol Concern and Alcohol Focus Scotland, government funded, who state among their aims and objectives

To influence the development of services by developing a database on good practice/guidelines.

To facilitate the participation and consultation of GINA in Scottish alcohol policy development.

Why take any notice of them? They've just released the results of a survey into alcohol and older women (pdf) which has some interestingly worded questions and also interesting results. 251 people responded to the survey which is not statistically significant but the results are published with lots of graphs to illustrate the responses.

Question 1 asks

How often do you drink alcohol?

20% responded never, 6% responded with every day. The other choices were special occasions (whatever that means), once a month or less, 2-4 times per month or more than once per week.

Question 6 asks

How many drinks does it take for you to feel the effects of alcohol?

without asking specifics such as size or ABV of the drinks in question. The results then are based on a vague measure. What constitutes one drink? A pint of Stella has twice the alcohol content of a half pint of Stella, but if you are drinking halves then for the survey it appears you are drinking twice as much.


Question 9 asks

Who do you drink with?
Partner Alone Family/Friends

without a question asking about living arrangements. Drinking alone is often considered a sign of 'problem drinking' but if you live alone there is a higher chance that you might drink alone through circumstance rather than choice.



Paid for from the public purse with many useless statistical results. Way to go Gender Issues Network on Alcohol.


Cunts