Duh?

The BBC shockingly reports:

The researchers said although it was well known that use of alcohol and drugs was linked to risky sexual behaviour, this study showed many young people were “strategically” binge drinking or abusing drugs to improve their sex lives.

Why else would you go to a bar if not on the hopes that everyone else around you is going to get drunk enough to make some bad decisions?

I hate fat people, and people who are regularly in the vicinity of fat people.

Hebl found that volunteers rated job applicants more negatively when they had been seen seated next to an overweight person than when they were seen seated next to an average weight person. The volunteers had no idea that they were showing not only a prejudice against fat people but also a bias against people who were merely in proximity to overweight people. … Men and women seen in the company of beautiful partners are perceived as being more attractive than when they are seen in plainer company.

It seems that the DFF (designated fat friend) strategy is finally being discredited. The uglier, prettier, or gayer your friends are, the uglier, prettier, or gayer you seem. More here.

Hat Tip Overcoming Bias