Study Shows People with Tatoos Drink More

The only thing less scientific than this study is the number of people in this thread who are trying to refute it with anecdotal evidence.

Hmmm interesting. Im a tattoo artist, am covered in tattoos, and i effing hate alcohol. Period. I dont drink.

I would like to see a study done on people who volunteer to be part of studies.

Subscribe to a scientific journal, there are many of them.

Though unless your work requires a particular journal, it's probably more cost effective to look up the studies you're interested in yourself and pay for the pdf's of the ones you can't get for free.

The only thing less scientific than this study is the number of people in this thread who are trying to refute it with anecdotal evidence.

Since the vast majority of the anecdotal evidence is contrary to the "study" results, I suspect that they take issue with the recommendation of the "study's" author that doctors and other medical personel should use this information to "profile" tattooed patients and discuss responsible alcohol use with them. It's pretty obvious the "study" really isn't a "study," it's an informal survey, and no information is given as to any of the numbers that would be needed to make a decision as to what, if any, validity the conclusions of the author have. Doctors are profiling quite often these days, and with sometimes bizarre results. My primary care sent me to an orthopedic surgeon to evaluate a severe elbow injury. In addition to this injury, I have suffered from both central pain syndrome and fibromyalgia for 17 years. When the orthopedic surgeon saw these diagnoses, she suggested a counselor for childhood sexual abuse survivors. When I explained I was not sexually abused, she suggested I have therapy to recover lost memories, because she had read a "study" recommending fibromyalgia patients be evaluated for childhood sexual abuse as this, according to the "study," was strongly correlated with fibromyalgia. I left immediately and found another orthopedic surgeon who repaired the two ligaments and one tendon that were fully ruptured in my elbow and didn't pressure me to try to "recover" memories of abuse that didn't occur.

That's because we're better at this whole LIFE thing....



But seriously, I'll drink to that.