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Not what you would expect The September 2002 issue of Scientific American contains a truely amazing statement in “Clocking Cultures’ by Carol Ezzell:
Levine and his colleagues have conducted so-called pace-of-life studies in 31 countries. In ‘A Geography of Time’, published in 1997, Levine describes how he ranked the countries by using three measures: walking speed on urban sidewalks, how quickly postal clerks could fulfill a request for a common stamp, and the accuracy of public clocks. Based on these variables, he concluded that the five fastest paced countries are Switzerland, Ireland, Germany, Japan and Italy; the five slowest are Syria, El Salvador, Brazil, Indonesia and Mexico. The US, at 16th, ranks near the middle.
I don’t know about you but… Ireland???? I suppose this means everyone emigrates from here to New York City for the laid back lifestyle?
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We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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I suppose the conclusion is that people walk fast, or perhaps briskly, in Ireland, the postal clerks are quick and the public clocks are accurate.
The last two are hardly negatives, and all the weenies say a brisk walk is good for you. God bless Ireland.
Quare: what is the effect of diversity in a multi-cultiral, cosmpolitan super-society. One is reminded of the research rebutting the thesis that weak American gun laws accounted for higher criminality in Seattle vs. Vancouver. It was found that majority culture Seattle had slightly less crime than the Canadians.