Forbes, with the help of Mavin Digital, ranked and mapped cities based on the seven deadly sins – lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride.
For each sin we stretched our imagination to find a workable proxy–murder rates for wrath, per capita billionaires for avarice–then culled the available data sources to rank the cities. Some of the results were surprising: Salt Lake City as America’s Vainest City. Some were not: Detroit as America’s Most Murderous.
It’s always good to remember to take these with a grain of salt, since you don’t really know much about the metrics used and how useful these metrics really are. Usually, rankings like these involve a lot of assumptions about the data.
They are of course still interesting and fun to look at though. Apparently, I moved from one America’s most gluttonous cities to one of the most violent and lustful.
Nice… I’m with you Nathan. Baltimore is:
Ranked #9 for Lust
Ranked #2 for Wrath
It’s hard to see the states when they are clustered in this version. The interactive one is a bit better to see the rank and state.
Oh Ya! Lets hear it for P-Town, #2 for lust!
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so so proud of my cities.
Hmm.. Sin City isn’t living up to it’s reputation!
@Tony2: good point. another sign to not take the metrics too seriously. my guess is that because gambling and prostitution are legal in vegas, it goes unaccounted for. very nice observation!
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