A) Is the following then the appropriate conclusion? Drink moderately, and find a spouse that drinks approximately as much as you.
B) I wonder whether the following set of hypotheses makes sense, and how one could test it:
- Social life is good for health
- Alcohol is bad for health, and the more, the worse (ie, a monotonous relationship)
- At lower levels of alcohol consumption, it brings improvements in social life whose health benefits outweigh the health costs of consumption
- At higher levels, this reverses.
Thus explaining the U-shaped effect (quadratic, as the study terms it).
B) I wonder whether the following set of hypotheses makes sense, and how one could test it:
- Social life is good for health
- Alcohol is bad for health, and the more, the worse (ie, a monotonous relationship)
- At lower levels of alcohol consumption, it brings improvements in social life whose health benefits outweigh the health costs of consumption
- At higher levels, this reverses.
Thus explaining the U-shaped effect (quadratic, as the study terms it).