Monday, November 28, 2005

'Beer goggles' effect explained

Many men and women over many years have noted the effects of beer goggles. Well the answer to how much beer goggles have effected you is as simple as the following formula.

KEY TO FORMULA

An = number of units of alcohol consumed
S = smokiness of the room (graded from 0-10, where 0 clear air; 10 extremely smoky)
L = luminance of 'person of interest' (candelas per square metre; typically 1 pitch black; 150 as seen in normal room lighting)
Vo = Snellen visual acuity (6/6 normal; 6/12 just meets driving standard)
d = distance from 'person of interest' (metres; 0.5 to 3 metres)

Scoring:
Basically if you score <1 the person is ugly regardless
between 1 and 50 means slightly less unattractive
50-100 means a pretty decent improvement,
>100 means that ugly people look like super models.

Pretty interesting research really, and I'm sure the scienticiens who did the research spent so many hours in the pub that they tested every single hyposthesis thoroughly.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

if you have 20 drinks in a pitch black, smoke filled room, at 3 metres everyone rates 433 (assuming you have normal vision)

12:26 PM  

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