Got a question about today’s news? Ask the Explainer.Įxplainer thanks Matthew Rhodes of Colorado State University. The new law might be helpful for any Tennessean store clerks suffering from a disorder called prosopagnosia, or “face blindness.” Prosopagnosia, which is sometimes associated with a stroke, autism, brain damage, or other neurological disorder, can limit an individual’s ability to estimate age at all. They judged about one of every five 13-year-old girls to be over 18, while they correctly identified the 13-year-old boys 97 percent of the time. In the British study, bartenders were shown pictures of people aged 13 through 22 and asked to guess their ages. Any person under the age of 21 years who attempts to purchase any alcoholic beverage from a licensee, or the licensee’s agent or employee, is guilty of an infraction and shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred fifty dollars (250), or the person shall be required to perform. And we’re especially prone to overestimating the ages of teenage girls. Now students can learn to mix cocktails on the university’s dime. We do best when we’re attempting to peg the age of someone who is close to us in age and comes from the same racial background. Yale University has announced that it will begin teaching an informal class on bartending. She walks up tells me that this is a police sting and that I have served two 19 year olds. Last night while working the first on shift (just me, no door guys) I was given a warrant notification by a police officer for 'furnishing alcoholic beverages to underage persons'. Some research suggests that clerks tend to underestimate the ages of people under 21 and overestimate for people older, while other studies find the opposite. I am/was (yes, I got fired) a bartender in a popular southern US college town. Our accuracy at guessing someone’s age depends on other factors, too.
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