• Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Unless the person is the kind of person to decline a drink on the grounds that “it’s only Thursday”, “a couple of drinks a week” is likely either more than the person thinks or they (consciously of subconsciously) are downplaying how much it really is.

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      2 months ago

      There’s tons of reasons why their response may be above or below how it seems…

      I’m thinking of how a doctor may try to average all that with a variety of patients and how that figures into their diagnosis, hell any differential understanding of symptoms…