Today’s weather map as March leaves like a lion.

An upper Midwest tropical storm, I guess.

DMT online survey

https://boingboing.net/2018/03/22/johns-hopkins-university-seeks.html

Betel nut riddles

Binge drinking gone wild

When is binge drinking not binge drinking?

Why we use the term ‘heavy episodic drinking.’

Another manifestation of radical conservatism in our work.

We’re proud to be radical conservatists.

Thoughtful essay from cox.com

A crutch? A sin?

NSDUH provenance of sexual attraction items

Citation

Survey Error analysis of drug surveys, Johnson (2014)

Total Survey Error analysis of drug surveys

Ask me if you wish to know more about this story.

Asylums

First field survey of mental disorders I can find. Norway, 1825-45

But the first statistics are shown for 1835, not 1825.

Report from Frederik Holst, University of Christiania, starts on page 250

Also see another report, with more detailed tables, starting page 289:

https://books.google.com/books?id=BMk-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA289&lpg=PA289&dq=%22Frederik+Holst%22+norway+census+insane&source=bl&ots=TUeQ1uDa_e&sig=hn3SWROfEWXvyZeVWAcA1lT5vLw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjT35q5o9TZAhUMQq0KHS2kC8EQ6AEwAXoECAgQAQ#v=snippet&q=holst&f=false

Some references to be pursued by a scholar, regarding Holst’s publications on this topic: