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And, now, Home of the YATSASS™ Reports

Yet Another True Story About Stupid Studies:

• Oliver Twist Was Well Fed

• Breathing Bus Exhaust is Stressful

• Depressed People May Take Drugs To Feel Better

• Smart healthy people choose foods more wisely than stupid drunks

• Stressed Out Moms Think Their Babies Are Annoying

• People Are Groggy When They Wake Up

• Exercise is Good For You

• Airport Screeners Probably Can't Stop Spread of SARS & Flu

• Study on Studies Yields Disappointment!

• Kids Imitate Their Parents!

• Lengthy Study with No Findings! A perfect YATSASS!

• Making Fun Of Fat Kids Depresses Them

• Drinking Highly Sugared Beverages Can Make You Fat!

• Americans Prefer Safe & Effective Drugs to Unproven and Dangerous Ones

• Study Shows Poor & Homeless Drink More Malt Liquor

• Study on People in Studies Yields Predictable Answers, But Also Raises New Questions

• Women Don't Like Getting Up to Feed the Newborn While Their Husbands Sleep Like Babies

• Sperm Levels Drop With Frequent Ejaculation

• People Who Don't Screw Around Get Less Clap

• Swimming Can Cause Fluid Build-Up in Lungs

• People Who Eat A Proper Diet are Healthier and Thinner

• People who don't wet their pants feel better than people who do

• Maybe Left Handed Winter Babies have More Brain Cancer, Maybe Not...

• People who had nose jobs and people who didn't both like the same kind of noses

• People pass more gas when they are active

• Kids who spend too much time reading will get headaches

• People who get drunk think others are more attractive than they do when they're sober

In the old days, My thoughts were more coherent, and I could string together whole sequences of actual paragraphs! Those essays can be found here for those so interested.

Monday, August 19, 2002

Posted 1:21 PM

YATSASS: People who get drunk think others are more attractive than they do when they're sober

I don't know if this helps or hurts the plaintiff's case in Alberts, below, but its hard to believe someone needed scientists to quantify the "beer goggles" effect. Reuters reports that British scientists have determined that even a "modest" amount of alcohol will make the opposite sex appear to be "25%" more attractive!

Beauty may be in the eye of the beer holder rather than the beholder, according to a new study by scientists. Academics in Scotland have found proof of the so-called "beer goggles" effect, following a study involving 80 students. The researchers wanted to measure the infamous phenomenon by which members of the opposite sex become more attractive more alcohol is consumed. They found that men and women who have drunk a moderate amount of alcohol find the faces of the opposite sex 25% more attractive than their sober counterparts. The study also revealed there was no difference in the beer goggle effect between men and women.

Students at Glasgow University were shown colour photos of 120 male and female students from St Andrews University aged 18 to 26. Participants were asked to rate their aesthetic properties on a scale of between one - highly unattractive - to seven - highly attractive. Half of the students had drunk up to four units of alcohol, equivalent to a maximum of around two pints of lager or two-and-a-half glasses of wine. The 40 tipsy aesthetes rated the people in the photographs as broadly more attractive than their abstemious counterparts.

Professor Barry Jones, from Glasgow University's psychology department and his fellow academic, Ben Jones, from St Andrews University, led the study.

Good work, Barry. Horndogs all over the world raise a pint to you.

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