Apparently the sun is starting to get to the people in Southern California. Some researchers at UCLA with nothing better to do with their time have made some interesting discoveries. And by “discoveries,” I mean, “information people would know if they would have gone to college.”
The researchers attended parties as sober sisters and polled partygoers about their intentions and even gave them breathalyzer tests. So yeah, you guessed it… people were there to meet “sexual partners” and were drunk. It’s never too early to start giving out the Noble Prize for 2008, but UCLA has just jumped to the top of my list. Here’s the result of their survey:
The study showed that while 61.3 percent of respondents reported being at the party to socialize, and 45 percent reported having fun as a main motivation, nearly 40 percent of all respondents said they were at the party to get drunk. More than 21 percent said they were there to try to meet a sexual partner.
Moreover, they found that at themed parties women wore less clothing! True dat! Have these people never heard of Halloween? It’s pretty much an excuse for girls to wear the sluttiest clothes imaginable and write it off as a costume… Pimps and Hoes Party, Gangsta Party, ’80s Party, Lingerie Party, Toga Party, etc.
My favorite quote in the article comes from a fellow at Boston University, appropriately named Peter True:
“Definitely. They have to be that faded to go out wearing those ridiculous clothes, I’m 100 percent sure.”
Now, he speakth the truth!
To check out the rest of the results and the indepth research, which also takes into account party size and location, from UCLA here. (And yes, that picture ran with the article, thank you ABC!)
TastyBooze will now only be accepting invitations to “themed parties.” So it has been written.
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If I had known that you could get a doctorate studying the amount of clothing girls wear to parties I definitely would have stayed in school.
I loved the part where they specified that the researches went to exactly 66 parties.
My favorite is the analysis that participating in drinking games results in a higher blood alcohol level.
Seriously, who put Sherlock Holmes on the case?
This can backfire though. I went to an “Ugly Mormon Girl” themed party, and it SUCKED.
Heh, this is what people in my department study. My life is a joke. Hopefully birth endowments do not correlate with slutty clothing, but it probably will. Dissertation chapter!