Typical drinking comparisons tested differences as a function of alcohol consumption. Eight such samples categorized participants into lighter and heavier drinking groups, with four of these contrasting non-binge-drinkers with those who weekly or “typically” reached the standard definition of binge drinking (i.e., four or more drinks in a sitting for women, five or more for men; Wechsler and Isaac, 1992). Two additional samples compared the 9 lightest drinking participants with the 9 heaviest drinking participants, 1 sample grouped participants on the basis of a median split on a measure of typical weekly consumption, and 1 compared participants who consumed fewer than 4 drinks per week with those who consumed 7–14 drinks per week. The five remaining samples examined the association between subjective response scores and continuous measures of alcohol consumption (i.e., frequency of alcohol consumption, quantity of alcohol consumed per occasion, and weekly alcohol consumption).
