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Do beer goggles really exist?
The team of MythBusters are ready to chug some beers to test out the idea if the people around you become more attractive the more a person drinks… Adam, Jamie and Kari underwent a series of tests to see exactly that. These tests were to rank a set of people when they were sober, buzzed, and drunk. After each time they were given a score telling them whether or not the hypothesis was true.
Thinking about this in the eyes of the scientific method, a four part method: make an observation, develop a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, and finally build a theory. The MythBusters, firstly, made an observation that there are more male female interactions when people has some form of alcohol in their system. Secondly, they developed the hypothesis that people around you become more attractive the more someone drinks. Next, the needed to test the hypothesis, they did that by ranking a set of people while they were sober, buzzed, and drunk. The higher the score they received, that meant they saw the set of people more attractive. The lower the score they received, that meant they saw the set of people less attractive. Lastly, building a theory, coming up with a conclusion from all of the tests conducted if the hypothesis was true or not.
With every hypothesis, the tests have their own strengths and weaknesses. In this scenario, some strengths I saw included; having an intermediate test between sober and drunk, this gave them a chance to see if attractiveness is a gradual process or a sharp jump. Testing both boys and girls, giving them an idea if this hypothesis is true or false for both genders. Lastly, the tests gave them a general understanding whether or not this hypothesis is true or not. Weaknesses I noticed were, this experiment was not a real world example, meaning every time they went back to rank people there were different people shown. If this were a real world setting, you would see the same people, lets say at a bar and you’d gradually start to see them more attractive. Another would be, there were not enough people to conduct this experiment, the more the people the better the results would’ve been and the results would be more conclusive. Lastly, what if different types of alcohol affected people in different ways. If this experiment was conducted again with changes I would propose to conduct the experiment in a real life setting, such as in a bar. This will allow the person to see similar faces and see if over time the affects of alcohol made that person more attractive. Another thing I would propose would be to add more people, with more the people in the experiment the outcome would be of a greater sample, so it could be generalized over a population. Not having enough people in an experiment makes the result hard to justify because the data could be highly varied so the average possibly wouldn’t make sense. Lastly, being able to test the experiment with other types of alcohol to see if attractiveness increases or decreases would be interesting because all people are different and not everyone gets affected the same way with beer.
After one long hangover, the MythBusters saw that overall there was a slight increase in attractiveness averaged over the three of them. Sure there were some up’s and down’s in the scores but the general trend was that as more alcohol was consumed the more a person thought everyone else was attractive.