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Which country consumes the most coffee?

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Re: Which country consumes the most coffee?

#32

The math is silly, these numbers are made up. Says the average American drinks 28K cups and spends $120K in their lifetime. That’s 1.5 cups daily at $4/cup for 50 years.

That would average to a Starbucks “Tall” each day, costing $6.

The volume seems plausible. The cost seems a bit steep.

Re: Which country consumes the most coffee?

#33
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Hi im blitzar and I am a caffeine addict. It has been 45 minutes since my last coffee. Update: It has been 3 minutes since my last coffee.

Do you, like me, ever feel judged by the lines on the carafe indicating 12 cups, and how your favourite mug is apparently six cups of coffee?

Re: Which country consumes the most coffee?

#34

The math is silly, these numbers are made up. Says the average American drinks 28K cups and spends $120K in their lifetime. That’s 1.5 cups daily at $4/cup for 50 years.

Luxembourg with an average (!) of over 5 cups a day per person also seems extremely high. That’s over 10 cups of coffee a day for every person that doesn’t drink coffee over there.

Also, seems like different types of coffee have different amounts of caffeine, which I would say is important.

Re: Which country consumes the most coffee?

#35

The math is silly, these numbers are made up. Says the average American drinks 28K cups and spends $120K in their lifetime. That’s 1.5 cups daily at $4/cup for 50 years.

It's a very strange price point - "Utility Coffee" like Dunkin or Tim's is usually around $2 for a medium, but "Specialty Coffee" like Starbucks or local cafes is $5 to $8. I'm not sure where they got their data, or what they qualified as "coffee" for this. The omission of the UK in their data is also quite strange.

I suspect based on the graphics that they're orienting this more towards the "specialty coffee" subtype, and getting this information from a supplier network rather than any sort of broad data "census".

Re: Which country consumes the most coffee?

#36
As a phd student in robotics I drink a lof of coffee. Unfortunately, as always, the title was waaaay bigger than the content. Missing clear sources and got mad about the regression analysis part *where's my p-value?.

Re: Which country consumes the most coffee?

#38
post #2

Hi im blitzar and I am a caffeine addict. It has been 45 minutes since my last coffee. Update: It has been 3 minutes since my last coffee.

Do you, like me, ever feel judged by the lines on the carafe indicating 12 cups, and how your favourite mug is apparently six cups of coffee?

I switched to pure uncut espresso for this reason - you can fit half a dozen doses into a "standard" coffee cup, problem solved.

Re: Which country consumes the most coffee?

#39
post #29
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Hi im blitzar and I am a caffeine addict. It has been 45 minutes since my last coffee. Update: It has been 3 minutes since my last coffee.

Ha! I only drink one caffeinated beverage per day, I'm not an addict!! (one can contains 180mg of caffeine...)

Snort coffee grounds for the rest of the day as well? I could quit anytime, I just dont want to.

Re: Which country consumes the most coffee?

#40
post #8

This doesn't seem right, I've never heard about Luxembourgers drinking a lot of coffee.

Per-capita values of countries with low population tend to be vulnerable to high variance

Yeah I was kind of trying to hint at that.
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