The big difficulty I have when thinking about whether and how to apply social psychology research to life is...the fact that so much of it turns out to be irreproducible.
Through a glass, darkly. *hic*
It's probably for the best that drinking has always had unpleasant physical effects on me, because I really like being just a little bit drunk and when I'm a little bit drunk, getting really drunk starts to sound good.
Aging has done that for me. I used to stay sort of alert and energetic long after I got stupid, and the third drink would make the fourth through tenth sound like a terrific idea. Now I'm sleepy after the second, so I almost never get to the point where I'm drunk enough to make bad decisions about future drinking.
I had six beers last night. It was nice, but I wanted eight.
This bottle is gonna die before sunrise.
Drinking doesn't make you do anything you aren't already inclined to do. Unfortunately in my case I'm inclined to eat a lot which I normally can keep under control (I haven't gained any weight during the lockdown but I also haven't lost the 10kg I was planning to).
I definitely drink more than you, but I haven't taken shots in 10 years. My roommates in Arlington - I'd say they partied hard, but is it a party if it's just the three of us and maybe one friend visiting? These days it's just the sedate, mature kind of drinking where I'm sipping hard liquor instead of throwing it back.
I have gin also, which is rare for me. But I didn't drink it last night because squeezing limes seemed like work.
We had a bottle of Rose's lime juice in the fridge for years. It's fine as long as you don't ingest it.
We're a support act, and proud of it.
Noisy group drunkenness is the kind that makes other people scary to me. I don't usually like participating in noisy groups, sober or altered.
I thought this was kind of surprising, https://www.distilledspirits.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Recreational-Marijuana-Impact-Study.pdf
Also I am surprised that no Bayesians have arrived to helpfully explain conditional priors.
No, I haven't reflected on why I'm surprised so often, why?
Here's to adjusting your priors.
Anyway, Bayesians are tricky to figure out.
I was a little surprised at the balance of assertions in the metafilter thread that drunk people aren't any worse to be around than sober people are. Am I mis-interpreting that? Is it supposed to not matter to me whether someone is *likely* to do something unpleasant to me, if their sober and trustworthy self is assumed to *want* to do that thing? Huff, grr.
Being sober around drunk people is not fun, unless you're trying to win a math contest or something.