Demografía de los 7 pecados capitales

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Según Santo Tomás de Aquino (II-II:153:4) "un vicio capital es aquel que tiene un fin
excesivamente deseable de manera tal que en su deseo, un hombre comete muchos pecados
todos los cuales se dice son originados en aquel vicio como su fuente principal".

Para un grupo de investigadores del Departamento de Geografía de la Universidad Estatal de

Kansas los pecados capitales a los que alude el filósofo medieval cobran significado al medirlos
y representarlos en términos de problemáticas y desigualdades sociales. Así pues, pecados
capitales como la ira y la lujuria pueden traducirse en el número total de delitos violentos y el
número de contagios por enfermedades de transmisión sexual.

Si bien en sentido estricto estas conductas obedecen a causas mucho más complejas que las de un
deseo o desviación moral, el intento de ilustrarlas mediante datos verificables contribuyen a
combatir la filosofía de lo natural y el así es, mostrando que el cielo e infierno se encuentran en
el plano terrenal.

Ahora imaginemos como quedaría representado el siguiente mapa en países donde la distribución
de la riqueza es menos equitativa y las desigualdades y problemáticas sociales más brutales. 1

1. Envidia
Invidia. Total de robos (hurtos, allanamiento de morada, y robo de autos) per cápita.

2. Avaricia
Avaritia. Ingreso promedio en comparación con el número de personas que viven por debajo del
umbral de pobreza.

3. Ira

Ira. Número de delitos violentos (homicidios, asaltos y violaciones) per cápita.

4. Gula

Gula. Número de restaurantes de comida rápida per cápita.

5. Lujuria
Luxuria. Número de enfermedades de transmisión sexual por habitante.

6. Pereza

Acidia. Los gastos en el arte, el entretenimiento y la recreación en comparación con el empleo.

7. Soberbia

Superbia. Agregado de los otros seis delitos ya que la soberbia es la raíz de todo pecado.

— Visto en Wired

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One nation, seven sins

Geographers measure propensity for evil in states, counties

By Abigail Goldman (contact)

Thursday, March 26, 2009 | 2 a.m.

Seven Deadly Sins in Nevada

Seven Deadly Sins Nationwide

 Seven Deadly Sins Nationwide with "Hot Spots"

Seven Deadly Sins Comparison

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• Kansas State University's Department of Geography

The question of evil and where it lurks has been largely ignored by the scientific community,
which is why a recently released study titled “The Spatial Distribution of the Seven Deadly Sins
Within Nevada” is groundbreaking: Never before has a state’s fall from grace been so precisely
graphed and plotted.

Geographers from Kansas State University have used certain statistical measurements to quantify
Nevada’s sins and come up with a county-by-county map purporting to show various degrees of
lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride in the Silver State. By culling statistics from
nationwide databanks of things like sexually transmitted disease infection rates (lust) or killings
per capita (wrath), the researchers came up with a sin index. This is a precision party trick —
rigorous mapping of ridiculous data.

Their findings were presented Tuesday at the Association of American Geographers’ annual
meeting at the Riviera, where Kansas State geography research associate Thomas Vought fielded 7
questions while standing next to a poster of his research. Seven maps of Nevada, in seven
different colors, for seven different sins.

The darker a county, the more evil it is.

Greed was calculated by comparing average incomes with the total number of inhabitants living
beneath the poverty line. On this map, done in yellow, Clark County is bile (see map on Page 2).

Envy was calculated using the total number of thefts — robbery, burglary, larceny and stolen
cars. Rendered in green, of course, Clark County is emerald.

Wrath was calculated by comparing the total number of violent crimes — murder, assault and
rape — reported to the FBI per capita. Vought and his colleagues used the color red to illustrate
wrath, so Clark County looks like a fresh welt. Washoe is slightly statistically duller.
Everywhere else is a friendly pork pink.

Lust was calculated by compiling the number of sexually transmitted diseases — HIV, AIDS,
syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea — reported per capita. Here again, Clark and Washoe
counties are worst. Carson City County is a close third.

Gluttony was calculated by counting the number of fast food restaurants per capita, and this is
one category where Clark County is bested. First in deep fry goes to Carson City.
Sloth was calculated by comparing expenditures on arts, entertainment and recreation with the
rate of employment. Here again Clark County is beat, scoring only average on the scale of sloth.

And pride, lastly, is most important. The root of all sins, in this study, is the aggregate of all data.
Vought and his Kansas colleagues combined all data from the six other sins and averaged it into
an overview of all evil. So pride, mapped in purple, shows the states two darkest bruises:
counties Clark and Carson City.

Yet, in the grand scheme of things, maybe we’re not that bad. While Vought and his colleagues
spent four weeks on the detailed Nevada study, they also ran the numbers on some 3,000
counties across the country, a nationwide survey of sin.

Turns out Nevada is unremarkable when compared with other states. Sure, we have a little
discoloration around Washoe and Clark counties when it comes to wrath, and Southern Nevada
as a whole stands out in the nationwide map of greed, but other than that, we’re almost colorless,
boring even, when compared with Texas, which ranked high for gluttony, or wrath, which was
concentrated in Florida and surrounding states.

Moreover, the Kansas geographers also compared the level of sin in 10 top casino markets, and
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as well. So Vought and colleagues plan to continue their national study of evil.

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One nation, seven sins

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Seven Deadly Sins Nationwide

Seven Deadly Sins Nationwide with "Hot Spots"

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Beyond the Sun

• Kansas State University's Department of Geography

The question of evil and where it lurks has been largely ignored by the scientific community,
which is why a recently released study titled “The Spatial Distribution of the Seven Deadly Sins
Within Nevada” is groundbreaking: Never before has a state’s fall from grace been so precisely
graphed and plotted.
Geographers from Kansas State University have used certain statistical measurements to quantify
Nevada’s sins and come up with a county-by-county map purporting to show various degrees of
lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride in the Silver State. By culling statistics from
nationwide databanks of things like sexually transmitted disease infection rates (lust) or killings
per capita (wrath), the researchers came up with a sin index. This is a precision party trick —
rigorous mapping of ridiculous data.

Their findings were presented Tuesday at the Association of American Geographers’ annual
meeting at the Riviera, where Kansas State geography research associate Thomas Vought fielded
questions while standing next to a poster of his research. Seven maps of Nevada, in seven
different colors, for seven different sins.

The darker a county, the more evil it is.

Greed was calculated by comparing average incomes with the total number of inhabitants living
beneath the poverty line. On this map, done in yellow, Clark County is bile (see map on Page 2).

Envy was calculated using the total number of thefts — robbery, burglary, larceny and stolen
cars. Rendered in green, of course, Clark County is emerald.

Wrath was calculated by comparing the total number of violent crimes — murder, assault and
rape — reported to the FBI per capita. Vought and his colleagues used the color red to illustrate 11
wrath, so Clark County looks like a fresh welt. Washoe is slightly statistically duller.
Everywhere else is a friendly pork pink.

Lust was calculated by compiling the number of sexually transmitted diseases — HIV, AIDS,
syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea — reported per capita. Here again, Clark and Washoe
counties are worst. Carson City County is a close third.

Gluttony was calculated by counting the number of fast food restaurants per capita, and this is
one category where Clark County is bested. First in deep fry goes to Carson City.

Sloth was calculated by comparing expenditures on arts, entertainment and recreation with the
rate of employment. Here again Clark County is beat, scoring only average on the scale of sloth.

And pride, lastly, is most important. The root of all sins, in this study, is the aggregate of all data.
Vought and his Kansas colleagues combined all data from the six other sins and averaged it into
an overview of all evil. So pride, mapped in purple, shows the states two darkest bruises:
counties Clark and Carson City.

Yet, in the grand scheme of things, maybe we’re not that bad. While Vought and his colleagues
spent four weeks on the detailed Nevada study, they also ran the numbers on some 3,000
counties across the country, a nationwide survey of sin.

Turns out Nevada is unremarkable when compared with other states. Sure, we have a little
discoloration around Washoe and Clark counties when it comes to wrath, and Southern Nevada
as a whole stands out in the nationwide map of greed, but other than that, we’re almost colorless,
boring even, when compared with Texas, which ranked high for gluttony, or wrath, which was
concentrated in Florida and surrounding states.

Moreover, the Kansas geographers also compared the level of sin in 10 top casino markets, and
while the Las Vegas Strip ranked first for greed, it could muster no better than third place for
pride, the aggregate of all sins. It was the southern gambling cities — Lula, Miss.; Biloxi, Miss.;
and Shreveport, La., that came out on top of the bottom. Why, exactly, remains to be seen. The
Kansas geographers started this project, it seems pretty clear, for the erudite amusement;
something to stand out at a 6,000-person convention consumed with the world’s heavy questions.
But if Tuesday’s convention crowd was evidence, the sin study was interesting to other scholars
as well. So Vought and colleagues plan to continue their national study of evil.

“It’s too much fun,” Vought said, smiling in a way that suggested, if not pride, then a good deal
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