Study Found Link Between Tattoos and Deviant Behaviors

So the news is that people who consider tattoos to be "deviant" behavior also think that tattooed people engage in deviant behavior?

I'd like to see a definition of "deviant" in this article. If having had multiple sex partners makes someone a deviant, then most of us either are deviant or wish we were.

She is not even partially right. Correlation does not equal causation! Far more likely your "deviancy" makes you get tattoos, not the other way around.

i have full tattoos because of aesthetic, not because i want to piss someone off, or label myself.

"Your mom may think so, and she’s right. Well, partially anyhow."

No, and frankly you have to be a moron to think so. The only thing the study really establishes is that people who are "deviants" are more likely to be tattooed, not that tattoos turn people into deviants.

Deviant is a completely useless word as well considering that anything that is not normal is deviant and that no one is normal. It's physically impossible to be normal, you can strive for it but you will never achieve normality.

Further, what classifies as one, two, three or seven tattoos? If I tattoo my entire body in one coherent piece then all I have is one tattoo. If I tattoo seven small stars on my ankle but do them at different times then I have seven tattoos. This study obviously have holes the size of fieldgoals and should not be taken for anything more than a humorous piece on how to do a poor study.

Well, duh.

"deviant behavior" is a great expression that should be used much more.

cheating on tests is just a good idea.

Cool Sozz, you must have gotten my deviancy.

Other than the multiple sex partners (3, from the age of 18-21) I don't do any of that. But who cares about that shit anymore. fuck, I know girls who've had 8 in that time span, not to mention guys before then!

In today's American society everything they describe is normal behavior. 50 years ago it was deviant, today not so much.

wait, this is a new study? Its original date is a year and a half ago. I'm wondering if it is just a revision that Shannon Larratt discredited several years ago.

My opinion, people with tattoos aren't more deviant. They are only more honest.

Okay the study is crap. So let's talk about people that go a little sideways in terms of mood-alteration, minor law-breaking, and body art. What is it about these people? Is it about conformity versus eclecticism? Where's the creativity intersection? Is it just about being a slacker loser?

(For the record, I have quite a few tattoos, have been in jail, and hold a Masters and am a fairly successful human.)

Maybe the conversation should be about stereotypes? Or maybe about that guy who just got glasses tattooed on his face--now that's whack.

So all this study is REALLY saying is that people who are so straight-laced that they won't have sex with multiple partners, use drugs recreationally, or drink are unlikely to have tattoos. I mean, obviously? It says much less about what people with tattoos are likely to do.

This made me laugh. It reminds me of the quality survey-type math project I had to do in 10th grade math. (Of course I procrastinated and had to quickly survey all those around me and rush the result analysis.)

Why don't they study something important? Like why some people drive on the left. Or why things don't fall up. Why can't cats have puppies?

"Less pronounced, but still significant in many cases, was an increased propensity for those with higher incidence of body art to cheat on college work, binge drink and report having had multiple sex partners over the course of their lifetime."

That's because people with lots of tattoos are DANGEROUS AND COOL. Duh.

"but if you were in a mall and asked to spot out someone who was a binge drinking pot-head, then your best bet would be on the guy (or girl) with heavy tattoos."

Perhaps you would, but that says more about you than it does about other people. For instance any rational person would look for the physiological signs of someone who is an alcoholic or "pot-head" and not at what these people choose to wear on their sleeves. I wonder which one of us is more likely to be correct.

lol tattoos get you laid. I knew it wasn't my prolific drug use or binge drinking.