GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Ecological Fallacy, Psychoactive Drug, Caffeine
26 Nov 2016
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Ecological fallacy: two results compared to each other and they would not make sense, 2006 study: on average canadians walk 900 mile/year, canadian drink 22 gallons / year gallon / mile. Beer: malson canadian is the dominant beer in canada, alcohol is a poison and body fights it initially large quantities are consumed some consumed more than water. Beer was main beverage of northern europe. Wine was main beverage of southern europe: goes back to agriculture revolution in iran but no one invented beer, barley grain becomes wet bubbled starch in the grain is converted sugar. Yeast in the atmosphere produce ethanol: today"s beer is different that one consumed before. Todays its bitter hops (plant) added to beer to make it bitter. Hops made consumers to consume more beer (since cannot consume a lot of very sweet beverage: in canada, temperance (no alcohol at all) act first in 1970. Temperance acts were most advocated by women.
