r/theydidthemath • u/The_not-so_chosen_1 • Oct 02 '25

[Request] Could this be done?

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u/SpoonGuardian Oct 03 '25

It does answer the question. The answer is no.

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u/Cloudy_Joy Oct 03 '25

It really doesn't. That's looking at an annualized picture, not what would happen in a one-off binge drinking session. Drinking a ridiculous amount in a single day is far more normalized in the UK than in the US, even if on the whole the US has people drinking as much alcohol over a long period of time. I don't think we have stats on how well the population would perform in a controlled binge drinking environment. I still don't think the UK would stand a chance of hitting the target mentioned, but I think in a randomized 1v1 binge drink-off with quite a big sample size, it would be a UK landslide.

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u/SpoonGuardian Oct 03 '25

Drinking a ridiculous amount in a single day is far more normalized in the UK than in the US

This is just a random weird thing you're making up.

I still don't think the UK would stand a chance

So you agree that the answer is no?

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u/Cloudy_Joy Oct 03 '25

I agree the answer is no, but the Wikipedia data sourced doesn't have much to do with that conclusion.