Some group of (probable) scientists called the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (inhale) have released a study showing "many" of a sample of 1000 college students drank 24 drinks "in a row" and 10 percent often drank 12 straight. How many is "many?" What period of time spent drinking constitutes "in a row?"
No matter how you slice it: Liars. All of them. I guarantee they gave this study at frat-houses via the "show of hands" method, and everyone voting immediately followed their responses with a high-five. How do I know? First-hand experience. Me and my sample group - you idiots - have spent several years drinking. Hard. And often. We don't go anywhere or do anything without a drink, and stopping at one is like waking up next to your grandmother (that means "not good"). And in all our days, I can think of one time when we might have had 24 apiece - that one tailgating day when we went pretty much 7 am to 3 am, and our total of empties averaged about 30 apiece. But, that was over approximately 20 hours, and we have years of alcoholism to fall back on, not like a bunch of 19-year-old dudes.
So the study is bunk, the surveyed are liars, we drink the best. Hell, I had three beers tonight just reading Plautus...and I halfway enjoy that. This type of sensationalist pseudo-science (the study, not my rambling) is designed for publicity and shock value, meanwhile, college cops everywhere react by ramping up the alcohol citations while real crime goes unchecked (at least on this campus).
I need a beer.
Posted by Chris at September 8, 2004 11:41 PM