Comments | ontd_political: NO WINE'ING OVER WEDDINGS

blackjedii in ontd_political

NO WINE'ING OVER WEDDINGS

Feb 03, 2011 20:55

Why wine drinking and monogamy go together

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alcohol, marriage, totally awesome

Comments 4

dragoness22 February 4 2011, 02:55:45 UTC

I love that line: Believe it or not, “frequency of drunkenness” records have been kept for centuries.

roguebelle February 4 2011, 03:09:38 UTC

A) I'm so glad they fully admit and publicize that correlation =/= causation.

B) Based on my own experiences with wine, it definitely does not promote monogamy in this chick. ;)

advancedcookie February 4 2011, 04:08:10 UTC

I think it's more a "those who drink together, stay together" - not drink apart from their partner with temptation all around, lol.

mswyrr February 4 2011, 04:19:34 UTC

“We call this in economics a spurious correlation,” Ms. Squicciarini said.

Ooooh. I think I just had a researchgasm or something. I like how the writer gets the fun of playing with a spurious correlation, but actually improves World Suck by admitting it's spurious and throwing some knowledge about the realities behind it at the reader in a quite accessible manner.