This one concerns adult entertainment:
Dividing state subscription counts by the FCC’s Broadband Deployment
quantities, the most-subscribing state is Utah (where 5.47 of every
1,000 broadband households subscribed to the service at issue), while
the least-subscribing state is Montana (1.92 per 1000 broadband
households).
As a Mormon I am sad to hear that.
The title of this post should have been “Preferences Revealed”
What if the 0.5% in Utah represents the non-Mormon population looking for things that the local community will not allow to be sold in the open…? Those darn Mormons are driving these poor people to porn!
My understanding is Utah has been extremely proactive in public solutions to broadband communications. And why not? As with roads, water, and power distribution, there are a finite number of optimum paths for networked resources and thus lined broadband service is a prime candidate for public works or public investment/regulation.
Or perhaps it is merely coincidence that Utah is the most wired state in 2008.
http://www.centerdigitalgov.com/survey/61
Oh yeah, and availability as noted above. And a lack of availability…ummm…traditional…’services,’ including clubs for ‘hookups.’
This paper seems less a statement about morality than demographics.
John wrote, “And what percentage of Utah households are broadband households?”
Here’s what I get using the data Edelman used in this paper.
In 2000, Utah’s total number of high speed lines divided by the number of households was .0465433. In 2007, it was 1.077112.
In comparison, the median of all states in 2000 was .0479768 in 2000, and .9244159 in 2007. Utah’s 2007 levels puts it roughly in the 75th percentile of all states for that particular measure.
Reminds me of how Google Trends “outed” the conservative Islamic countries:
And:
“Even though homosexuality is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom ranks No. 2 for searches for “gay sex,” behind the Philippines.”
I’m an ex-mormon from Utah. I can’t follow the link because I’m at work, so I have to guess based on comments.
I don’t think you have any argument for preferences in this. I think you have two factors at work:
1) Magazines, videos, etc. are illegal in Utah. People to drive to Wyoming for this. There’s a town on the border serving Utahns’ needs for fireworks, strong beer, and … photography.
2) Social pressure is VERY high in Utah. Mormons have mastered social pressure. But Mormons are biologically the same as other people and social pressure doesn’t work when no one is around.
Suscription?
Is there not enough free porn in the WWW?
I was originally thinking walras’ law but I think substitutes are more like it. Just as the other have already pointed. Although I sense a certain confirmation bias in all our comments concerning Utah.
My dad always said that the only vice Mormons indulge in is sex.
I don’t believe this finding at all…not because Utahns would not stoop to looking at porn, but rather because Utahns are extremely thrifty and know how to get FREE porn on the net.
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