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The 'cool kids' have always been portrayed as a fun-loving, risk-taking bunch, and a new study suggests this may have some basis in fact – for adolescents back in the 90s, at least.
"Our main finding is that young people who are perceived to have the most pleasing appearance generally drink more and more often engage in binge drinking, which involves several consecutive days of drinking," Green Green and colleagues analyzed data from more than 30,000 young people who participated in the study through to adulthood, answering questions on how often and how much alcohol they drank in the past month, and if they engaged in binge drinking, smoked tobacco, or used other drugs. They also provided information on unprotected sex and pregnancy.
"As we only have one interviewer rating for each respondent, it may be argued that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder', and the single rating is entirely subjective," the authorsfound individual beauty ratings did not vary significantly between multiple raters, both within and across cultures, and so while the single-rater approach is not ideal, the authors
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