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Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods

posted by Fnord666 on Friday November 24 2017, @02:17PM   
from the what-about-moonshine dept.

Whoever writes:

Spirits may make you feel angry, sexy or tearful, while red wine or beer may make you feel relaxed, say researchers.

They questioned nearly 30,000 people aged 18-34 from 21 different countries for the study in the journal BMJ Open.

All the respondents drank beer, wine and spirits, and many said each type of alcohol had a different effect on them.

While having a few drinks can be enjoyable, researchers hope their findings will help highlight the dangers of dependent drinking.

We have to discuss this, if only because it may explain Ethanol-Fueled's posts.

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Original Submission

• No it didn't No it didn't (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 24 2017, @03:10PM (6 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 24 2017, @03:10PM (#601047)

  Per tradition I didn't read TFA, but it sounds like it found that people believe different alcoholic drinks have different effects on them, and that these perceptions are shared across 21 countries.

• Re:No it didn't (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday November 24 2017, @03:21PM

  by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday November 24 2017, @03:21PM (#601052) Homepage Journal

  Wasn't there a thing, so long ago, where they gave people cocktails, and everybody got a little drunk? But there was no alcohol, it was a mocktail, a fake cocktail like a Roy Rogers or a Shirley Temple. So interesting!

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• Re:No it didn't Re:No it didn't (Score: 5, Informative) by Hawkwind on Friday November 24 2017, @04:44PM (2 children)

  by Hawkwind (3531) on Friday November 24 2017, @04:44PM (#601072)

  The Ars version of the story had a good run-down of the issues with the study.

  The study has a lot of limitations. It’s an observational study based on self-reported data. There’s nothing to say that alcohol causes these emotions, just that these respondents think they do. There are confounding issues of recall bias, what activities people are doing while drinking certain drinks, whether they mix alcohols, and what moods they are in when they start drinking certain drinks.

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/heres-how-to-emotionally-manipulate-your-family-with-alcohol-this-holiday/ [arstechnica.com]

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  • Re:No it didn't Re:No it didn't (Score: 3, Insightful) by crafoo on Friday November 24 2017, @05:22PM (1 child)

    by crafoo (6639) on Friday November 24 2017, @05:22PM (#601082)

    Observational study .. . self reported data. So bullshit. Just say bullshit.

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    • Re:No it didn't (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 24 2017, @07:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 24 2017, @07:25PM (#601116)

      yeah i thought it was just a joke article for the holidays.

      its like the sort of alcohol advice you'd read in cosmo; i expected a mood brightener to include seltzer water and white wine with a lemon wedge to make it cheery and non-apathetic

      instead it was presented as a serious list of self-reported effects based on the type of two buck chuck and 5 gallon bags of wine in a box people had before getting a headache and invalidating the results.

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• Re:No it didn't Re:No it didn't (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 24 2017, @06:41PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 24 2017, @06:41PM (#601100)

  Whiskey's too rough,
  Champaigne costs to much,
  and Vodka puts my mouth in gear,

  https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tomthall/ilikebeer.html [azlyrics.com]
  That's, Tom T. Hall, 1975

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  • Re:No it didn't (Score: 3, Touché) by isostatic on Friday November 24 2017, @06:59PM

    by isostatic (365) on Friday November 24 2017, @06:59PM (#601108) Journal

    Whiskey's too rough

    Quite Agree. That's why you should drink Whisky.

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