We all know that the law of America restricted the age of drinking which is 21 years old. But most of the teenagers have already tried wine or beer before the age of 18. According to many reports, 70% percent of the death of teenagers are affected by alcohol which more or less leads to tragedies. Since alcohol drinking has so much negative consequences, what is the key feature in binge alcohol drinking that directly harms the teens so much, but not so much in adults?
Alcohol drinking usually happens in party time which teenagers all enjoyed their time while no one cares about how much they actually drink. This eventually leads to binge drink which links with terrible ends. Binge drinking, according to this article on society for science, indicates that there are not only short term but also long term effects of binge drink on teenagers. This study illustrates two studies on binge drinking. The first one is an observational one which the researchers gather data among teenagers in the US and make a comparison to show the difference of how much binge drink and regular alcohol drink can bring physical damage to human bodies.
However, this test actually can only show the correlation relationship between binge drink and the damage but not the caution which make this conclusion a little bit lack of convincing. So in this article the scientists make another experiment. This time they use experimental rats and give them alcohol while finally find out that alcohol can cause damage to the neural cells in the brain. They repeat the experiment again in order to avoid the possibility of chance in another article and the result is the same. Thus they successfully reject the null hypothesis which is “alcohol does not affect our brain function”. This conclusion this study group finds out is the alternative hypothesis with convincing experiments which quite reminds us about the danger of alcohol drink especially binge drink.
Although there may be other reasons of why alcohol drink (binge drink) affect our other body functions, there still exists the possibility that if this experiment is completed enough, the conclusion will still remain the same which indicates that binge drink does remain long term effects on teenagers’ brains. In conclusion, we, college students, should be more aware of alcohol drinking (binge drink) in our daily life.
It seems like the scientists who did the study did a very good job. They realized that the first results could not be confirmed to be correct because it was simply an observational study. The second part of the study proves to be more trustworthy because they actually carried out an experiment. While it is more trustworthy, I don’t know if you can fully trust it. There doesn’t seem to be a control group in the study, which would make it more accurate. I also feel like the findings could be affected by the Texas sharpshooter fallacy, because it seems like the scientists were trying very hard to reject it and support the drinking age, especially because they did not have a control group. Overall, though, I think the study was showing a conclusion worth making note of.
If you wanted to take this study further I would suggest looking into how different types of people are effected by alcohol. I know that not everyone reacts the same way when they drink. I would also look if there is a connection between alcohol and depression. That would be an interesting study.
With your study go into more dept about how many drinks it takes to cause damage also define what ‘damage’ means… emotional physical (will I lose an arm?). But, overall good job and I liked your topic.
Overall the study was well conduced proving the null hypothesis is rejected without an doubt. The main question I have is this justifies that alcohol does have some influence on our brains but you never addressed why people binge drink in the daily life? If we know that it does have effects on us why do we continue to drink?