[Attention Surplus Disorder]

This sentence made no sense to me:

“While many scientists want to understand alcohol’s effects on such a complex system as speech, it’s difficult to perform the necessary studies on humans, which is why many researchers turn to birds.”

I can hardly think of a lower-overhead experiment. Neighborhood bar, pop for a few drinks, presto, peer-reviewed perfection.

[Red Badger]

With humans you have dialectical problems and possible local variants of even those dialects.....................

[Robe]

While many scientists want to understand alcohol’s effects on such a complex system as speech, it’s difficult to perform the necessary studies on humans,

All they had to due is check out a cowboy bar at 1am Saturday night