If 2 drinks can do this, imagine what 10 could do!!!
Drinking alcohol may enhance a person’s problem solving skills, according to a new study.
Scientists found that men who either drank two pints of beer or two glasses of wine before solving brain teasers not only got more questions right, they also were quicker in delivering correct answers, compared to men who answered the questions sober.
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Researcher from the current study published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition also found that people who drank alcohol and had a blood alcohol level of 0.07 or higher were worse at completing problems that required attentional control but better at creative problem solving tests.However, the surprising discovery was that participants with a BAC of 0.07 or higher solved 40 percent more problems than their sober counterparts and took 12 seconds to complete the tasks compared to 15.5 seconds by teetotal participants.
Bottoms up!!
April 12, 2012 at 9:50 pm
Just ran this by my boss. He thinks it might be an improvement but asked me not to test it.
Rover.
April 13, 2012 at 4:01 pm
I've known that for years! I used to say that wine got my creative juices flowing, but then my sister decided that wine WAS/IS our creative juice.
Here's to creative juices!!!
April 13, 2012 at 5:33 pm
I always do much better pinning the right name on the right kid on the first try after a couple of margaritas. My children think it is freaking hilarious.
Sharon
April 14, 2012 at 4:32 am
There is a quote in one of C.S. Lewis' books — I think it was "Letters to Malcolm" — in which he claimed that the ancient Persians debated every question twice: once when sober and once when drunk. If that's true, then I guess they were on to something!
Elaine