Monday, November 5, 2007

Eating sushi makes you more attractive...

Steak vs. Sushi, Bush vs. Kerry...statistically speaking.

According to an article about how Democrats are pinning their hopes on sushi, sushi eaters are more attractive.

They don't show a graph in the article, but I'm assuming they are comparing the amount of sushi restaurants in a city and the attractiveness of the people who live there.

Here's the list of the top 25 cities by human attractiveness: LINK
(only Philly is worse than D.C.)

The original article, which I found on the Freakonomics blog, actually talks about how the ratio of steak to sushi places can be correlated to the blueness or redness of a city.

ACOM tends to be conservative, but he loves sushi. So, clearly it doesn't always work.

The article also highlights a few other fun facts:

  • fattest vs. fittest cities - steak doesn't necessarily make you fatter
  • the most wired cities - no real connection between internet access and the food you eat
  • steak-eating, Republican-voting cities are getting bigger faster than their sushi-loving, blue state brethren