It seems to me that this claim has a lot to overcome, given that the observers could walk away at any time.
does not facilitate close interactions that easily lead to getting to know people.
Is that a goal? I’ve never been much of a partygoer, but if I want to have a one-on-one conversation with somebody and get to know them, a party is about the last place I’d think about going. Too many annoying interruptions.
The function it plays is to stop the party-destroying phenomenon of big group conversations.
It may do that, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that that’s the function. You could equally well guess that its function was to exclude people who don’t like loud music, since it also does that.
It seems to me that this claim has a lot to overcome, given that the observers could walk away at any time.
Is that a goal? I’ve never been much of a partygoer, but if I want to have a one-on-one conversation with somebody and get to know them, a party is about the last place I’d think about going. Too many annoying interruptions.
It may do that, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that that’s the function. You could equally well guess that its function was to exclude people who don’t like loud music, since it also does that.