Hooray beer!

I was happily procrastinating this afternoon, browsing the New York Times Web site, thinking I was about to read an amusing adult-written article (you need a login to read this one) on a young people's phenomenon -- in this case, Beer Pong and "flippy cup," yeah, they called it flippy cup, I laughed, there's also an Edward 40-hands reference. HA! -- when I came across a horrifying statistic without anything approaching a decent explanation. The article says:

"Thomas J. Johnson, a psychologist at Indiana State University, has published seven articles on student alcohol use in peer-reviewed journals since 1998 and has studied thousands of students who play drinking games. He found that 44 percent of men who played said that they did so to sexually manipulate other players. Twenty percent said they had done things after playing a drinking game that could be defined as sexual assault."

WHA?!? They're telling me nearly half of all men who at some point in their lives have played beer pong, flip cup, asshole, kings, hi-low, etc. etc. were doing so with the intent to sexually manipulate another player? Say it ain't so, fellas... or even better, if anyone out there has got a j-stor subscription and can find the article that actually contains this stat, I'd be ever appreciative. A sample size, the sample definition, the question wording and more (like, say, what exactly could be defined as sexual assault?) is clearly in order when you're using survey research to accuse so many people of something so rank. Bad job, New York Times...

OK, now back to building my shrine to Tai Shan...