Post your scores below
August 26th, 2010 at 3:00 pm by David FarrarFind out if you are a problem drinker or have hazardous levels of consumption. Complete the survey, and post your score in comment. Later on, I will post what different scores mean according to the World Health Organisation.
1. How often do you have a drink containing alcohol?
(0) Never [Skip to Qs 9-10]
(1) Monthly or less
(2) 2 to 4 times a month
(3) 2 to 3 times a week
(4) 4 or more times a week
2. How many drinks containing alcohol do you have on a typical day when you are drinking?
(0) 1 or 2
(1) 3 or 4
(2) 5 or 6
(3) 7, 8, or 9
(4) 10 or more
3. How often do you have six or more drinks on one occasion?
(0) Never
(1) Less than monthly
(2) Monthly
(3) Weekly
(4) Daily or almost daily
4. How often during the last year have you found that you were not able to stop drinking once you had started?
(0) Never
(1) Less than monthly
(2) Monthly
(3) Weekly
(4) Daily or almost daily
5. How often during the last year have you failed to do what was normally expected from you because of drinking?
(0) Never
(1) Less than monthly
(2) Monthly
(3) Weekly
(4) Daily or almost daily
6. How often during the last year have you needed a first drink in the morning to get yourself going after a heavy drinking session?
(0) Never
(1) Less than monthly
(2) Monthly
(3) Weekly
(4) Daily or almost daily
7. How often during the last year have you had a feeling of guilt or remorse after drinking?
(0) Never
(1) Less than monthly
(2) Monthly
(3) Weekly
(4) Daily or almost daily
8. How often during the last year have you been unable to remember what happened the night before because you had been drinking?
(0) Never
(1) Less than monthly
(2) Monthly
(3) Weekly
(4) Daily or almost daily
9. Have you or someone else been injured as a result of your drinking?
(0) No
(2) Yes, but not in the last year
(4) Yes, during the last year
10. Has a relative or friend or a doctor or another health worker been concerned about your drinking or suggested you cut down?
(0) No
(2) Yes, but not in the last year
(4) Yes, during the last year
[DPF: Update: WHO states:
Total scores of 8 or more are recommended as indicators of hazardous and
harmful alcohol use, as well as possible alcohol dependence.
This is how Alcohol Action come up with their stat that 700,000 NZers are problem drinkers. But it is even worse than that:
In general, a score of 1 or more on Question 2 or Question 3 indicates consumption at a hazardous level.
So if you have ever had more than two standard drinks in a session, this indicates hazardous consumption!]
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August 26th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
6
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
12, but I’m a professional…
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:08 pm
6 – seems my problem is not enough drinking
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
4
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
9 Yes please post David as they are bit eschewed in terms of how I got that result First three questions I scored highly and rest I put 0
I binge drink (technically as I have a dozen beers) on a Saturday night, but go to bed, sleep in and am fine… And I go to a lot of events (if they are on) like your gallery openings etc during the week and have a few glases of wine now and then… Like tonight am popping into Exhibitions on Featherston St on way home as haven’t been there for a while and I like Ron’s (owner) taste in art, would that make me an alchyhollicc
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
4
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
15 – Do I win?
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
6
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
3.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
2, but will try harder next year.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
1. There must be a cure though.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
3 – all scored in question 1, the rest all scored zero.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
5
(Being 4 for #1, and 1 for #3)
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
7 – I’m ashamed at myself. So boring.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
0 – if you don’t count communion, now there’s a surprise
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
6. But some of my drinks are girly RTDs so they might not count.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
6
I’m quite surprised, I thought anyone who had a few beers every night was an alcoholic according to the health nazis.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Only 2 – but if if you substitute chocolate for alcohol the shine would go off my halo.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Only 10.
Vote:Down from 18 when I was given this same test almost 20 years ago (which counts for 2 of my points this time as well, from question 10). As I recall a score of 18 was bordering on being an alcoholic.
August 26th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
10 but I try and binge when I can
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
1 (2 or fewer drinks less than monthly), or 3 if you count the 5 to 10ml of raspberry vodka or Bicardi I occassionly put in my supper-time cocoa for flavour.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
3, all on question 1.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
@Andrei,
But Andrei, how often do you have ‘communion’?
@DavidP,
Vote:Look David, this quiz is for the grownups – only teenagers drink RTDs.
August 26th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Winter Dime 8
Vote:Summer Dime 13
August 26th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
5. I’d say no.9 is only a matter of time.
Winter Dime, good point.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
0.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
40
WOoohooo, i shwin.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
1 (First Question only)
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
6. (on 1. and 3. – zero on everything else)
Jeez I’ve slipped a long way from varsity days, and yeah, there is that summer/winter thing.
Re question 7. I’m reminded of the story of one preacher in early America (from Wilderness At Dawn) who asked a local Indian man what he felt guilty about. The Indian responded that he had never felt guilty about anything!!!!
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
10
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
9.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
3, but my university days were different.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
7
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Fifteen years ago…… 20
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
16. Sorry MyNameIsJack but I’m a student – only a BA too, which makes it even easier.
In my defense, #9 is a line-ball call – I took some chunks out of my fingers trying to open a beer bottle with a teaspoon. Sober, I probably would have had the same result, but I’m sure it was the alcohol that made me think it was a good idea in the first place. (Got the top off though).
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
1 or 2 – from the first question. It depends on whether I’m dating at the time because then I eat in a real restaurant more often and therefore have a glass of wine with my dinner!
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
FUCK YOU camrun! Now I’m going to have to drink ANOTHER 3 bottles of wine.
I wish I’d got a BA instead of a BSc.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
4
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
4 – boring I know – but kids have reduced drinking to a minimum. Hell during the clark decade that would have sent lessor mortals to student level drinking.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Two extra questions for certain bloggers.
1. How often do you abuse waiting staff when out drinking with fellow bloggers just because you can?
(0) Never [yeah right]
(1) Monthly or less
(2) 2 to 4 times a month
(3) 2 to 3 times a week
(4) 4 or more times a week
1. How often have you been (quite rightly) abused by Sir Robert Jones for being loud, or for wearing sunglasses on your head when you are dining indoors?
Vote:(0) Never [Don't tell lies]
(1) Monthly or less
(2) 2 to 4 times a month
(3) 2 to 3 times a week
(4) 4 or more times a week
August 26th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
8, got there in first 3 then like the Slack Caps couldn’t buy another run. Almost had a panic attack as I started number 4.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Monty – tell the kids to buy their own.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
5… damn, I need to work on my devil-may-care booze-fuelled insouciance
While I look dubiously at the boozehounds above me (it goes a long way to explain some of their opinions
) I commend the saintly low-scorers for not being amongst the wowsers who wish to impose their own habits and choices upon others.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
What a load of garbage
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
15, my wife cost me 4 on the last question though.
Like I give a fuck what WHO thinks about my drinking or anything at all for that matter. Like the rest of the UN it’s ahot bed of left-wing crypto-fascists.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
MyNameIsJack, or you could go out and injure someone?
I’ve got room for improvement also, scored a 0 on 4, 5, 6 and 10. Mainly because 5: I’m a BA student, nothing is ever expected of me. 6: There’s never any alcohol left after a heavy drinking session to have a morning drink, or it’s the next afternoon by the time we stop. 10: My relatives and friends all drink just as much.
Trust me, you don’t want a BA. You may have done more work, but at least there’s jobs for you when you’re done. A BA is worthless now, which I only found out halfway through my last (this) year.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
1. I am a freak.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
The only problem my drinking has caused me in the last few years is having to change insurance providers. For the record Pinnacle Life sees my drinking habits as very normal (or at least not a problem for them), while Sovereign appear to be stricter than the WHO ( the health organisation that is, not the rock band which would be a much different comparison given the way Moon the Loon went out).
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Best you all head straight to AA you pathetic teetotalers!!
Vote:Get a grip on your life each and every one of you!@!
August 26th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
13 – I drink most days and more on the weekend, no ill effects or impact on anyone else. I’m with KiwiGreg, the wife nags so 4 from the last question…
The WHO should stick to worrying about malaria and stuff like that…
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
First issue is that there is one hell of a gulf between 2-4 times and month and 2-3 times a week.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
5
2, 2, 1 then zero’s.
Love to see Cactus Kate’s score
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
GPT1 5:06 pm,
Not really: 4 times a month is only 1 time a week, on average.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
9. WHO can get stuffed.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Strewth I’m a 17, but I am problem drinker so I guess it’s to be expected.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
WTF is “a drink”?
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Kris K – so once a week to minimum twice a week and maxium 3 times a week – seems like a gulf to me. What if you drink 6-8 times a month for eg?
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
7 as an upper limit. Disappointing really. Need to move back to town so I can socialise more.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Nagging wives do not count. They are programmed that way. You need independent corroboration.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Start a group! Adults who drink too little?
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
I’m a 7. From two questions. I’m a half-a glass to two glasses at a time drinker, unless it’s bubbly. But I try not to buy bubbly. And I don’t have the Precious Blood (wine) at Communion.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
9. But that’s an average as I live in a dry camp when I am at work. In a good week it could be 16+
.
Vote:BTW having dry periods is great – it means it is cheaper to get drunk when you do binge!
August 26th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
RightNow 5:35 pm,
It appears as though half of the Kiwblog contributers are already honorary members
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
16. But this year I’ve gone from getting shit faced once or twice in a weekend to at most twice a month.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
A ridiculous survey – too large a gaps between the classifications. And my score was far too low as I guess the survey is geared towards those who drink at home (which I never do).
2, 4 (“day” – start in the daytime of course it is more than 10), 2 (silly time gap classification a not weekly but not monthly either), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 2, 0 (are you fucking joking? No one is going to do that when I am buying their piss)
Total = 10.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
For those who asked what is a ‘drink”
More me a drink is a bottle
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Mine would be 0 as well.
Not for religious reasons, and I don’t have anything against people drinking (unless it’s binging to excess), I just never developed a taste for alcohol; it never appealed to me, not even beer. I’m happier with a Cola, or lemon, lime and bitters.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
20 – I’ll be a great lawyer eh?
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
I’m dry 4 months now.
So, if answered as at 4 months ago: 21
Now. 0
My I keep the strength to keep it that way.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Must clarify 0 points for 7, 8, 9. I drink often and drink hard when I feel like it. However I do it with friends, in a good enviroment, I don’t vomit or hurt myself/others. I know when it is time to get a kebarb and then go home And annoy my girlfriend!
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
2 (from Q1)
DPF – not sure that you’re right in your comment about Q2 as it refers to a “typical” day, not “ever”, so the occasional binge probably doesn’t count!
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
10 for me… but when I lived in NZ it was 17.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
1. How often do you have a drink containing alcohol?
(4) 4 or more times a week
2. How many drinks containing alcohol do you have on a typical day when you are drinking?
(3) 7, 8, or 9
3. How often do you have six or more drinks on one occasion?
(4) Daily or almost daily
4. How often during the last year have you found that you were not able to stop drinking once you had started?
(0) Never
5. How often during the last year have you failed to do what was normally expected from you because of drinking?
(0) Never
6. How often during the last year have you needed a first drink in the morning to get yourself going after a heavy drinking session?
(1) Less than monthly
7. How often during the last year have you had a feeling of guilt or remorse after drinking?
(1) Less than monthly
8. How often during the last year have you been unable to remember what happened the night before because you had been drinking?
(1) Less than monthly
9. Have you or someone else been injured as a result of your drinking?
(0) No
10. Has a relative or friend or a doctor or another health worker been concerned about your drinking or suggested you cut down?
(4) Yes, during the last year
Okay, guess I’m a serious pisshead on that count. I enjoy alcohol, but would never consider driving or bashing someone when I’ve had a few. And always turn up at work, and be capable of working.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
13. WHO are coqsuckers with no idea of how much for different types, just a generalisation.
I went to AA. Alcoholics Anonymous. Told them my name was Steve and I have a drink problem.
Vote:They kicked me out for not being anonymous.
August 26th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Doing blog quizzes (memo to self, get a life !). But a 5, 4 from Q1, wine every night with meals, but only a glass a time. And if it’s really good it doesn’t count as much (so a second glass can occur). Unfortunately I don’t have much tolerance for alcohol.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
9, So am I doomed or what ?
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
6.
All on questions 1 – 3
Questions 4 – 10 may have happened in a distant past, but the memory of those events is pretty clouded
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Dimes lost more friends to AA than Liberace lost to the virus..
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
According to this stupid test anyone who can swallow a drink is potentially at risk of harm from alcohol.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
6
Gotta work on that!
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
5
1=4, 2=1, the rest are zeros
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
10; 8 of them in the first three questions. I’m assuming a ‘drink’ is a standard unit, so a bottle of Steinie and a moderate glass of wine are 3 – 4 units.
So… if every other weeknight, once I’ve finished all the housework, got the kids to bed, and sat my arse down at 9:30 I have one beer and one wine; and if at the weekends I have a bottle of wine one of the two evenings; then I have a problem. Don’t think so.
Question 5 is great. “How often during the last year have you failed to do what was normally expected from you because of drinking?” There’s a mate of mine that’s big into his rugby and for 20 years he hasn’t drunk on a Friday night during the season, and makes up for it with a bender Sat evening and all day Sunday. His work never expects to see him on Monday until mid afternoon, so he scores 0. Heh heh.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
7.
4 on #1
1 on #2
2 on # 3 0 for the rest.
A bit different to 20 years ago.
Vote:August 26th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
365, and increasing,
Vote:peterquixote
August 27th, 2010 at 12:46 am
I think my score is one currently. I’m not in practice at drinking as I’ve had babies the last few years.
This summer my score might increase, probably up to a 3. I’m a drinker at barbeques. Don’t drink much at home and don’t go to parties and restaurants much.
The last drink I had was a small glass of white wine at a playcentre family night about a month ago.
Vote:August 27th, 2010 at 12:50 am
Who made up the Quiz, its badly worded. Perhaps they should write referendum questions.
1. How often do you have a drink containing alcohol?
OK
2. How many drinks containing alcohol do you have on a typical day when you are drinking?
OK
3. How often do you have six or more drinks on one occasion?
What kind of drinks? No mention of alcohol, why assume that. Water is a drink.
4. How often during the last year have you found that you were not able to stop drinking once you had started?
I always stop drinking eventually. I fact I stop drinking while I open the next bottle.
5. How often during the last year have you failed to do what was normally expected from you because of drinking?
My wife always nags me that I’m making us late leaving the house because I grab a drink just before I leave.
6. How often during the last year have you needed a first drink in the morning to get yourself going after a heavy drinking session?
I always seem to need a drink in the morning, I guess its the 8 hours that I have been without making me thirsty.
7. How often during the last year have you had a feeling of guilt or remorse after drinking?
I drank the last of the kids chocolate milk from the fridge yesterday and felt a little guilty.
8. How often during the last year have you been unable to remember what happened the night before because you had been drinking?
I can never remember the night before, but I thought that was age. I will try and stop having a glass of milk before bed to see if my memory improves.
9. Have you or someone else been injured as a result of your drinking?
Given the anti smacking laws, I guess I injured one of my kids when I threw my glass of water over him when he was having a wobbly.
10. Has a relative or friend or a doctor or another health worker been concerned about your drinking or suggested you cut down?
Yes my wife says I drink too much Fizzy lolly water.
So I got a score in the 30′s because the questions were ambiguous and assumed an Alcohol relationship.
I’m pissed anyway so stuff the silly test. Im gunna go beat the wife so she can yell at me about my drinking AGAIN. Luckily I won’t remember in the morning. I’ll have a couple when I wake up to get rid of the hangover else i’ll call in sick to nurse the hangover, then I’ll go to the liquor store and get a couple of dozen for tomorrow night with the boys.
Vote:August 27th, 2010 at 8:03 am
@ petal Kia kaha!
Vote:August 27th, 2010 at 8:27 am
@badmac – lol
Vote:August 27th, 2010 at 8:39 am
Does half a bottle count as 3 1/2 standard drinks? Cos I can fit it all in 2 glasses?
Vote:Size does matter
August 27th, 2010 at 8:46 am
No. You’ve misread it. If you’ve ever had six or more drinks on one occasion this indicated hazardous consumption. Only if you typically drink 3 or more drinks (not ‘have ever’) do they claim you’re in danger.
Vote:August 27th, 2010 at 9:03 am
ALL CRAP = 73
Vote:August 27th, 2010 at 9:05 am
9 because of a score of 4 on the last question, due to my wife’s beleif that I have a drinking problem.
This beleif is due primarily to events in her past related to alcohol abuse, events that occured before I even met her.
That last question is about as biased and loaded as you can get, and has no relation to any actual alchol consupmtion, but only to others perception of it.
Today is Friday, since Sunday morning I have consumed two small bottles of beer.
(although to be honest, Friday night and Saturday I was on a rugby trip, consumption affected accordingly, but I was the designated van driver on Saturday, and only had my first beer at 8.00 that night!)
Vote:August 27th, 2010 at 9:08 am
MY wife and I drink a bottle of wine every night with dinner.
So does just about every family in Italy or France.
So what?
Vote:August 27th, 2010 at 9:17 am
7. One away from being a “harmful drinker”, on the basis that I go out Fridays and Saturdays, and to Backbenches on Wednesday, and that once I’ve had a bit of a fuzzy memory. So even though I got 0 for causing myself or others any harm I’m still apparently relatively harmful?
Silly test.
Vote:August 27th, 2010 at 9:51 am
Some context…
The test is the AUDIT score for alcohol consumption. It’s used as a small set of question in big population surveys to get at population trends – it’s not meant to be a diagnostic tool.
(Statistical tools in health are usually “validated” in the sense that they have been tested to make sure that they are *generally* a good match to the thing they are trying to measure.)
The survey doesn’t specifically mention drink size because it’s used world wide and so local communities show photos of how much a standard drink is according to local context.
And harmful drinking is not just the stuff than happens around the time you drink, it also counts the long term effects on the liver and brain.
Vote:August 27th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
19: I think I’m second behind Captain Neurotic?
I think I probably drink a little bit too much, but not that much too much. The last two questions were killer though.
Vote:August 29th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
3. But apparently (as one of these was scored at Question 2), I have a hazardous level of consumption.
So, having 3 glasses over the course of an evening indicates a drinking problem? Please!
Vote:August 30th, 2010 at 5:52 am
8 points from the first three questions only, did not have any of the further ones…
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