Franklin Waters
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Okay, let's say there are six levels of alcohol intoxication:
0 = sober
1 = mildly intoxicated
2 = buzzed
3 = tipsy
4 = drunk
5 = shit-faced
6 = absolutely gone
Now, let's say my friend gets to level 4 after drinking 3 12-oz. cans of Miller Lite. If Miller Lite contains 4.2% alcohol, and my friend drank 3 cans, or 36 oz., we could determine the amount of pure alcohol he ingested in oz. by multiplying 36 by 0.042.
36*0.042=1.512
Therefore, my friend got drunk (level 4) from 1.512 oz. of pure alcohol. Let's say that my intoxication scale is scientifically reliable, and my friend scores an exact 4.0. So, 1.512 oz. moves him up the ladder of drunkenness by 4.0 "rungs" exactly.
Knowing this, we can determine how drunk he could get per ounce of alcohol, or how many ounces of alcohol it would take to go up one level on the scale, assuming he always drinks with the same stomach content and his tolerance never fluctuates.
If you go from 0 to 4 on the scale from 1.512 oz. of pure booze, then this change could be modeled by the following equation:
A/(D-P)=X
where D represents the final level of intoxication, P represents the previous level of intoxication, A represents the amount of pure alcohol consumed, and X represents the amount of alcohol it would take to go from one level of intoxication to the next. So let's plug in the numbers:
1.512/(4-0)=0.378
Therefore, it would take my friend 0.378 oz. of pure alcohol to go from "sober" to "mildly intoxicated."
Conversely, you could find out how many "levels" your degree of intoxication would increase per ounce of alcohol using the following formula:
(D-P)/A=Y
where the variables are all the same as in the first equation except for Y, which represents the number of levels your intoxication rate increases by per ounce of pure alcohol.
In this case, my friend would be a 2.65 (roughly) on the scale if he started out stone-cold sober and then ingested one ounce of pure alcohol.
Does this make any sense at all? I know it would be a ton easier to rely on actual technology to determine the level of intoxication based the on the concentration of alcohol in the body, but if that type of technology is not available, you could use this ghetto-ass method I guess.
What I'm asking is, would these methods accurately determine the amount of alcohol necessary to achieve a certain level of intoxication or the degree by which the level of intoxication increases with the consumption of a given amount of alcohol?
0 = sober
1 = mildly intoxicated
2 = buzzed
3 = tipsy
4 = drunk
5 = shit-faced
6 = absolutely gone
Now, let's say my friend gets to level 4 after drinking 3 12-oz. cans of Miller Lite. If Miller Lite contains 4.2% alcohol, and my friend drank 3 cans, or 36 oz., we could determine the amount of pure alcohol he ingested in oz. by multiplying 36 by 0.042.
36*0.042=1.512
Therefore, my friend got drunk (level 4) from 1.512 oz. of pure alcohol. Let's say that my intoxication scale is scientifically reliable, and my friend scores an exact 4.0. So, 1.512 oz. moves him up the ladder of drunkenness by 4.0 "rungs" exactly.
Knowing this, we can determine how drunk he could get per ounce of alcohol, or how many ounces of alcohol it would take to go up one level on the scale, assuming he always drinks with the same stomach content and his tolerance never fluctuates.
If you go from 0 to 4 on the scale from 1.512 oz. of pure booze, then this change could be modeled by the following equation:
A/(D-P)=X
where D represents the final level of intoxication, P represents the previous level of intoxication, A represents the amount of pure alcohol consumed, and X represents the amount of alcohol it would take to go from one level of intoxication to the next. So let's plug in the numbers:
1.512/(4-0)=0.378
Therefore, it would take my friend 0.378 oz. of pure alcohol to go from "sober" to "mildly intoxicated."
Conversely, you could find out how many "levels" your degree of intoxication would increase per ounce of alcohol using the following formula:
(D-P)/A=Y
where the variables are all the same as in the first equation except for Y, which represents the number of levels your intoxication rate increases by per ounce of pure alcohol.
In this case, my friend would be a 2.65 (roughly) on the scale if he started out stone-cold sober and then ingested one ounce of pure alcohol.
Does this make any sense at all? I know it would be a ton easier to rely on actual technology to determine the level of intoxication based the on the concentration of alcohol in the body, but if that type of technology is not available, you could use this ghetto-ass method I guess.
What I'm asking is, would these methods accurately determine the amount of alcohol necessary to achieve a certain level of intoxication or the degree by which the level of intoxication increases with the consumption of a given amount of alcohol?
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