Fallacy of the Distribution of Alcohol Consumption
- 1 February 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 50 (1) , 125-126
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1982.50.1.125
Abstract
It is pointed out that it is fallacious to expect alcohol consumption to follow any particular statistical distribution. Emphasis on the distribution of alcohol consumption in research is therefore misguided.Keywords
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