Beer goggles – the tendency of finding people more attractive as you get more drunk, has been debunked, at least somewhat, in a UK research study.
British forensic psychologist Vincent Egan took to venues in Scotland to test the beer goggle theory. Dr Egan said:
“We got 240 people out in the field in bars and cafes. We saw 120 who were sober and 120 who had been drinking and we’ve asked them to do two things: firstly, to say how attractive the face was; and secondly to say how old they thought the face was,”
“The girls were originally 17 years old and they were morphed to look like they were 15 up to 19. So from being girlish to being womanly,”
“We found that alcohol basically didn’t influence things as much as you might have thought. We found alcohol consumption did inflate attractiveness ratings but the greater alcohol consumption didn’t lead to the overestimation of age.”
He says there was no difference in age estimates between the drinkers and those abstaining.
Dr Egan argues that his findings suggest men who have sex with underage girls should not be able to use alcohol as a defence.
However, there is still hope for ugly folk going out and hoping to score. Just don’t lie about your age.
Hehe, yeah you can tell the age when you are drunk, but women do seem to get prettier with each beer you drink
So now they’re saying the song aint true no more? “There aint no ugly people after 2am”?!? Nooo! hahahaaa
LOL.How did he find 120 sober people in Scotland?