Isn’t drinking way down in young people overall? I think the comparisons wouldn’t be one to one then.

“There have been increases in solitary drinking among young women, in particular, over the past 25 years. Solitary drinking, or sometimes drinking when they are alone, was reported by about 40% of young adults who drank in the past year.”

Maybe drinking is down overall, but solo drinking is up? (So social drinking is down)

Doing my part as a male to restore the gender gap

I’m doing my part!

40% of young adults who drank in the past year

Yeah—it looks like it’s a trend among drinkers, so it says nothing about the overall drinking rate.

That’s what I mean, wouldn’t it being a different subset of users? Maybe these are the hardcore drinkers that already existed, but were overshadowed by the huge numbers of drinkers.

When actual connection and entertainment is impossible to reach for a lot of people it makes sense these numbers would go up.

Reading this while doing my part

But if we virtually toast, does it still count as solo drinking?

Get the head sets on and play some vidiya games, you are now not an alcoholic

or this could be young women having a glass of wine while cooking dinner?

I appreciate virtual toasts, but it’s still solo drinking.

Cheers!

Girl band version of this song incoming.

Going forward I think people will be drinking om headset a lot more.

Proper social drinking out is a luxury now.

So either weekends at friends or friends on headsets during week seems like where we are going

“Roughly 4 in 10 young adults who drink alcohol report drinking alone at least once in the past year,” said lead author Kasey Creswell, associate professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon.

Only 4 in 10? 6 in 10 young adults who drink alcohol never have a beer or glass of wine on a cozy evening in? I would have expected it to be the other way around.

Bars are too expensive where I am to be a traditional social alcoholic

The number doesn’t say that much. Obviously it’s among drinkers, but I think the more interesting percentage would be people who only drink alone.

Well I’m drinking with friends in spirit.

Yeah, wait, what? Thats what this whole report is based around? I fucking crack a beer after a hard day sometimes and just sit on my back porch - thats not problematic behavior!

Yeah, the exact question they’re studying is:

“When you used alcohol during the last year, how often did you use it in each of the following situations?…When you were alone.” Response options were 1 = “Not at all” 2 = “A few of the times” 3 = “Some of the times” 4 = “Most of the times” 5 = “Every time.”

And they’re comparing the “not at all” responses against all of the other ones. I understand they’re analyzing data that already exists, so they don’t get to go back in time and start asking a different question in 1977 when the survey begins, but I’m not sure how useful this is to the current analysis without some qualifier like “When you had three or more drinks in one day.”