Want to get paid to drink?
Students at Arizona State University are getting paid to drink --- $60 per night.
Will Corbin, an Arizona State University professor researches the effects of alcohol by getting students drunk. "’The biggest thing I get is, ’You’ve gotta be kidding me," he told azcentral.com. "You have a bar, and you give people alcohol as part of your research.’
That’s right. He has a bar in the psychology building where carefully screened students are plied with cocktails by research assistants each night at 5 p.m. They’re given three drinks in the first half hour. Then they’re put through a battery of tests related to memory or potentially risky behviour.
After they’ve sobered up, they’re allowed to leave. That typically happens around 9 p.m. --- early enough to make it to a real bar.
Josh Dehaas is a writer and editor focused on post-secondary education and training. He has a Master of Journalism from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph.
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