Utah most depressed state in U.S. ...

Post by **_charity** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:38 pm

*Yawn* Another veiled attempt to smear the Church?

Rollo do you need to re-learn that great underlying principle of stats? CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION.

Especially when it is a second degree corrleation. Utah is the most depressed state. Utah is 71% Mormon. Mormons are more depressed than anybody else.

Your correlation is bunk. Rhode Island is in the bottom 9 states for depression. They are 63% Catholic. Kentucky is in that bottom list. Largest religion denomination is Methodist. Other states on the bottom 9 list their largtest denomination as Catholic, as well--Nevada and OHio. Oklahoma, in the bottom nine lists Southern Baptist as their largest denomination.

Post by **_Bond...James Bond** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:47 pm

charity wrote:Kentucky is in that bottom list.

And I was doing so much better.....must be our meth problem, or our poverty problem, or our marijuana problem, or our fried chicken problem, or our bourbon problems, or our bluegrass problem. Yes that's it! It's blue! Why does the grass have to be blue!! It makes us all blue. CKSalmon understands! Nephi too! Bluegrass makes you blue! Whaa Whaa!

Post by **_Rollo Tomasi** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:06 pm

charity wrote:*Yawn* Another veiled attempt to smear the Church?

Rollo do you need to re-learn that great underlying principle of stats? CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION.

Especially when it is a second degree corrleation. Utah is the most depressed state. Utah is 71% Mormon. Mormons are more depressed than anybody else.

Your correlation is bunk. Rhode Island is in the bottom 9 states for depression. They are 63% Catholic. Kentucky is in that bottom list. Largest religion denomination is Methodist. Other states on the bottom 9 list their largtest denomination as Catholic, as well--Nevada and OHio. Oklahoma, in the bottom nine lists Southern Baptist as their largest denomination.

Sweetheart, I'm just bringing up the article. Why construe this as "smearing the Church"?

Post by **_BishopRic** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:23 pm

The Nehor wrote:
Doctor Steuss wrote:If only Mormons would figure out that the solution to life's problems can be found at the bottom of a pint glass.

Silly Mormons. Depression is for Baptists.

"To alcohol.....the cause of and solution to all of life's problems" -Homer Simpson

Homer's a genius!

Post by **_LifeOnaPlate** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:46 pm

Notice this article came out right after BYU beat Utah last week.

Post by **_BishopRic** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:08 am

LifeOnaPlate wrote:Notice this article came out right after BYU beat Utah last week.

Touche LOAP! The most depressing thing was having to fight the Provo traffic after losing like we did.....and you can't get a drink in Utah County!

Post by **_BishopRic** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:14 am

charity wrote:*Yawn* Another veiled attempt to smear the Church?

Rollo do you need to re-learn that great underlying principle of stats? CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION.

Especially when it is a second degree corrleation. Utah is the most depressed state. Utah is 71% Mormon. Mormons are more depressed than anybody else.

Your correlation is bunk. Rhode Island is in the bottom 9 states for depression. They are 63% Catholic. Kentucky is in that bottom list. Largest religion denomination is Methodist. Other states on the bottom 9 list their largtest denomination as Catholic, as well--Nevada and OHio. Oklahoma, in the bottom nine lists Southern Baptist as their largest denomination.

A little hypersensitive, aren't you Charity? Let me help you a bit...as of last week, Utah is only a little over 60% LDS, so that may give you even more ammo for your argument (but I think we all know the major reasons are the high expectations put on LDS members -- that whole Super-Mom thing...)

Post by **_SatanWasSetUp** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:50 am

BishopRic wrote:
A little hypersensitive, aren't you Charity? Let me help you a bit...as of last week, Utah is only a little over 60% LDS, so that may give you even more ammo for your argument (but I think we all know the major reasons are the high expectations put on LDS members -- that whole Super-Mom thing...)

Naw, I gotta agree with the TBMs here. The depressed in Utah are the non-mormons. Sure they're a minority, but I'll bet a very large percentage of them are depressed, skewing the results for the entire state. How can you be a non-mormon in Utah and NOT be depressed?

Post by **_charity** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:57 am

Rollo Tomasi wrote:Sweetheart, I'm just bringing up the article. Why construe this as "smearing the Church"?

Drop the condescending feminist junk.

Let's see, why would I think you were meaning to smear the Church?

1. This is a Mormon dicussion webiste, presumably all items brought up here are relevant to the Church.
2. Utah is recognized as being predominantly LDS.
3. Any negative item brought up under these circumstances is assumed to refer back to the Church.

Don't give me that wide eyed innocent look. We all know what you are saying.

Post by **_BishopRic** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:59 am

SatanWasSetUp wrote:
BishopRic wrote:
A little hypersensitive, aren't you Charity? Let me help you a bit...as of last week, Utah is only a little over 60% LDS, so that may give you even more ammo for your argument (but I think we all know the major reasons are the high expectations put on LDS members -- that whole Super-Mom thing...)

Naw, I gotta agree with the TBMs here. The depressed in Utah are the non-mormons. Sure they're a minority, but I'll bet a very large percentage of them are depressed, skewing the results for the entire state. How can you be a non-mormon in Utah and NOT be depressed?

Could be. But I heard that they are now dispensing Prozac in place of the bread at sacrament meeting. I KNOW it's true!

In the name.........oops, had a flashback there...