Comment Re:I love you man (Score 3, Interesting) 305
It makes you wonder about this study. One would think that socializing, as promoted by moderate alcohol consumption would have a massive improvement on health and lifespan. If this study is not seeing that then either the assumption that happiness among freinds is a boon is wrong or that alcohol entirely offsets that. The third possibility, that they controlled for this, I'll dismiss. Finding people who socialized without alcohol would put this control group in rare company; they would biased comparables. I'm not saying one needs to drink so socialize. I know many people that don't and do. I just think the groups would not be comparable.