{"id":360,"date":"2005-11-30T21:24:12","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T01:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/30\/who-said-higher-math-wouldnt-help-you-in-real-life\/"},"modified":"2006-04-05T13:38:50","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T17:38:50","slug":"who-said-higher-math-wouldnt-help-you-in-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/30\/who-said-higher-math-wouldnt-help-you-in-real-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Who said higher math wouldn&#8217;t help you in real life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/11\/beergogglesmath.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"141\" alt=\"Beer Goggle Math\" title=\"Beer Goggle Math\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh man, I am so putting this on a T-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>This equation is the result of research at Manchester University into the &#8220;beer goggles&#8221; effect on perception of attractiveness. Here&#8217;s the key to formula:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An = number of units of alcohol consumed<\/li>\n<li>S = smokiness of the room (graded from 0-10, where 0 clear air; 10 extremely smoky)<\/li>\n<li>L = luminance of &#8216;person of interest&#8217; (candelas per square metre; typically 1 pitch black; 150 as seen in normal room lighting)<\/li>\n<li>Vo = Snellen visual acuity (6\/6 normal; 6\/12 just meets driving standard)<\/li>\n<li>d = distance from &#8216;person of interest&#8217; (metres; 0.5 to 3 metres)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information you can go <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/manchester\/4468884.stm\">read the article<\/a> at the BBC&#8211;or, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2005540939,00.html\">extra-classy reportage<\/a> at The Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the salient bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A formula rating of less than one means no effect. Between one and 50 the person you would normally find unattractive appears less &#8220;visually offensive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Non-appealing people become suddenly attractive between 51 and 100. At more than 100, someone not considered attractive looks like a super model.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The funniest thing in the article though is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The research was commissioned by eyecare firm Bausch &#038; Lomb PureVision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Oh man, I am so putting this on a T-shirt. This equation is the result of research at Manchester University into the &#8220;beer goggles&#8221; effect on perception of attractiveness. Here&#8217;s the key to formula: An = number of units of alcohol consumed S = smokiness of the room (graded from 0-10, where 0 clear air; 10 extremely smoky) L =&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/30\/who-said-higher-math-wouldnt-help-you-in-real-life\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-technology","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-5O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}