Study Shows People with Tatoos Drink More

LOL

It baffles me that someone paid for that research.

My guy has a couple of really nice tattoos and he hardly drinks at all.

I have tattoos to remind me of important events in my life....so that when I get older and my memory leaves me I can look at various places on my body and remember. Then there will come a day when I see it and go, "WOW! That's neat! Where did THAT come from?"

Me too!!

I have 5 tattoos. One for becoming an adult, one for each of my children (I have three) and one for when my sister passed away.

But I don't drink... or do anything risky actually. lol Kinda feel like I'm missing out. :laugh:

So this explains my non-family related alcoholism… I’ve been looking for something to blame

ohhhh so this is why i drink more... ohhh ok.. totally makes sense now.. phew! i thought i was actually liking alcohol.. its my tattoos' fault


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uh, oh. I got some catching up to do!!

^^^ way to apply this new tidbit of info :laugh: That's what it's all about, right... applying the info to real world problems?

I have no tattoos at all, and I drink like a ****ing fish. What garbage.

WOW that is so far off... between me and my fiance we have 10 tattoos and we both have a full sleeve and neither one of us drink

Do people really REALLY think this study is saying that tattoos make people drink more?

It has merely found an interesting phenomenon in that OF A SUBSET OF PEOPLE WHO DO DRINK, those who have also chosen to have tattoos are also more likely to be those who have chosen to leave a the bar with a higher alcohol level.

The lack of clarity of thought expressed here is seriously disturbing... People saying "That's wrong, we don't drink"

Well if you don't drink, this study isn't about you, it's about people who DO drink.

And frankly it's not a surprise to me that the sort of people who drink and who have tattoos are also the people who drink a bit more. It certainly backs up my experience of people I meet in pubs.

That isn't an insult to people with ink, you only have to take a look at my food diary to see how much I drink! :bigsmile:

The article is using a flawed sampling technique in order to make generalizations about tattooed people.

It is studying the amount of alcohol that people with tattoos have been drinking in a bar, compared to the amount of alcohol that other people have been drinking in the same bar.

Bearing in mind that neither of us have seen the protocols, what is the flaw in the methodology that you have identified, other than not liking the results of the study?

I have a couple and Man, am I a rebel! (insert eyeroll here!) LOL

I think their sample is a little biased..

Lets hit up a place where people go to drink to see how many of them drank..

how stupid is that..

Why not survey people in a park on a weekend day and see how many said they were drinkers or non drinkers.

You don't have to Breathalyze people yo get a yes or no answer.

Of course, I realized I misspelled "Tattoos" a half a second after it was too late :drinker:

The researchers asked nearly 3,000 young men and women as they were exiting bars on a Saturday night if they would take a breathalyzer test. Of those who agreed to take it, the researchers found that people with tattoos had consumed more alcohol than those without tattoos, the researchers said.

Previous studies have shown that tattooed individuals are more likely to engage in risky behaviors, such as unprotected sex, theft, violence and alcohol consumption, compared to people without tattoos

http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/16/11231236-tattooed-people-drink-more-says-new-study

They did this outside a bar, so 100% of "tattooed people" had been drinking. Yellow journalism at it's best. Next, insurance companies will want to raise the rates of its tattooed customers to cover their perceived risk increase.

I have a tattoo and none of its true, at least not for me. That is a load of bull and I'll drink to that! :drinker: