Study to Determine the Effects of Noon-Hour Drinking of Alcoholic Beverages on Typewriting Performance

Abstract

This study was concerned with how the noon-hour consumption of alcoholic beverages affects typewriting performance. Ten persons consumed various amounts of alcoholic beverages for lunch, and then each person typed two 5-minute timed writings after lunch. The timed writing scores (after consuming various amounts of alcohol) were then compared to two 5-minute timed writing scores administered after no alcoholic beverages were consumed to see if there was a change in typing speed and accuracy when alcohol was consumed. Particular emphasis was placed on determining if alcohol affected both typing speed and accuracy, speed only, or accuracy only.