Comments on: Math explains the “beer goggles” effect

By: timaree

timaree — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:03:23 +0000

unfortunately, THIS STUDY WAS A BUNCH OF SHIT and my beloved mentalfloss has been sullied by this reprinting of a myth.

go google “beer goggles science punk” and find that a blogger found the same thing i did: this study never took place, it was an advertising effort of bausch & laum and BBC fell for it.
i’d include the link but this site won’t let me.

i was taking a course where i had to critque a research study a few years ago and tried to find the original publication of this study. no luck. i tried contacting the researcher. no luck. sure enough, after some searching, i found out the whole thing was shit and some pseudo-scientist had lent his name to this urban fucking legend.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:49:22 +0000

Chris is exactly right, this equation is missing the hornyness variable. Because really that’s what’s driving the intent behind the beer goggles and should control the entire equation. I would recommend making it an external factor to the equation such as phi and assume the goal is sex once a month and the variable “t” is the number of days until you last had sex. Then quite simply phi=2t/30. So the overall effect of beer goggles is phi*Beta.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:44:20 +0000

LMAO Blake…you speak the truth my good man.

and Dave…you are still allowed to smoke in bars in some states.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:28:03 +0000

how about the “time passed since you’ve last had sex” variable? I would think that needs to be taken into consideration

By: bill

bill — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:18:24 +0000

the math must have certian limitations becuase evven the ugliest drunkest girls stay away from me

By: blake

blake — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:57:56 +0000

I’ve found it’s easier if i just keep the goggles on

By: dave

dave — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:31:12 +0000

smokiness in bars? i haven’t seen smoke in a bar in over two years…try making another excuse.

By: Croptilldawn

Croptilldawn — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:29:08 +0000

So when describing her the next morning do you say…
” but she had a great personality”
You might have had Beer Goggles on.