No seriously, you don't know your limit.....

It is interesting how people always overestimate their capabilities. This graph I found pretty interesting:

In the dark bars up there are the number of drinks the college students thought they would have to drink in order to have the adverse consequences listed. The white bars are the ACTUAL number of drinks they'd have to have.

And what it shows is that college students (shockingly) don't really learn from their previous mistakes. They aren't learning their alcohol limits effectively. In addition, the students that overestimated their limits the worst, were the ones that were undertaking the most risky drinking practices.

It turns out that this is not abnormal. People who experience the negative aspects of drinking more often are more likely to exhibit risky drinking behavior in general. Basically, even when risky drinkers have experienced the negative consequences of drinking heavily, it doesn't stop them from doing it again.

And there are people who really want to re-create the "30 bar mega bar crawl"!

-Cheer