Friday, June 04, 2004
We're Number 1!
Earlier I mentioned that the Economist had published this year's Big Mac index which can be used as a rough estimate of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) - income normalized for how much stuff actually costs in a country.
Well now, the Economist has released statistics measuring each country's PPP - We're number 1. And we're crushing everyone. Number 2 is Japan, and they only have 3/4 of the PPP.
Even better news, blogging hasn't yet resulted in a significant decrease in American productivity. In fact, productivity grew at 3.8% in the first quarter. So we're looking to expand our lead even more in the future.
Hooray for America! Hooray for Gerbils! Hooray for Mark Llama's Helium Gerbil Farm!
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We're number one in sexual frequency too!
Buried in this article about the Japanese not having sex is a little quote that according to a 2001 Durex survey, the US had the greatest frequency of sex of any country in the world at 124 times a year a little better than ans average of 1 out every 3 nights.
A little caveat: I did a quicky search to see if I could find the actual survey, and found results from 1997 when Americans were getting it on 135 times a year. So, umm, our sexual eagerness appears to be flagging.
So as a public service, this blog is advocating that its readers use apply some of our PPP lead to increase the country's sexual frequency lead. (Interpret that in whatever way you choose). Not only will it be good for maintaining our sexual frequency lead, it'll be good for the economy as well (and thus our PPP lead).
Hooray for America! Hooray for gettin it on!
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Well now, the Economist has released statistics measuring each country's PPP - We're number 1. And we're crushing everyone. Number 2 is Japan, and they only have 3/4 of the PPP.
Even better news, blogging hasn't yet resulted in a significant decrease in American productivity. In fact, productivity grew at 3.8% in the first quarter. So we're looking to expand our lead even more in the future.
Hooray for America! Hooray for Gerbils! Hooray for Mark Llama's Helium Gerbil Farm!
Upate
We're number one in sexual frequency too!
Buried in this article about the Japanese not having sex is a little quote that according to a 2001 Durex survey, the US had the greatest frequency of sex of any country in the world at 124 times a year a little better than ans average of 1 out every 3 nights.
A little caveat: I did a quicky search to see if I could find the actual survey, and found results from 1997 when Americans were getting it on 135 times a year. So, umm, our sexual eagerness appears to be flagging.
So as a public service, this blog is advocating that its readers use apply some of our PPP lead to increase the country's sexual frequency lead. (Interpret that in whatever way you choose). Not only will it be good for maintaining our sexual frequency lead, it'll be good for the economy as well (and thus our PPP lead).
Hooray for America! Hooray for gettin it on!
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