Thursday, August 14, 2008

Well hell: People really do look better when you drink, a LiveScience article says, quoting a newly released "scientific study." (Click the link to see the article and its rather oddly placed staged image of four decently attractive people who already had plans to hookup.)

Surprisingly, the beer goggles effect was not limited to just the opposite sex among the ostensibly straight volunteers recruited for the study — they also rated people from their own sex as more attractive.

See: "Bisexuality."

Behold the extremely scientific phrasing of Marcus Munafo, an experimental psychologist at the University of Bristol in England:

"Everyone knows about beer goggles," Munafo said. "But some of our results suggest that there's more going on than we might have thought."

I see flaw in the methodology here. The researchers used 84 straight college students and served them a lime-tasting drink (placebo) or a similar-looking drink with the alcohol content equivalent to 1.5 pints of beer or a large glass of wine.

Clearly the "beer goggles" begin focusing after a beer or two, but any drinker knows they're not in full effect until you're shitfaced hammered from four Bud Lights, three whiskey-Cokes and a couple of Jaegerbombs [sorta NSFW].

More research is needed here. I'll take the lead.

#posted by Dave 8:20:00 PM