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Worried that you drink too much? Well, pat yourself on the drunk back and blame your propensity for guzzling vino on the fact that you're just so darn smart.According to a recent, enormous study, women who have a college education are nearly twice as likely to drink daily as their less-educated peers, and they're more likely to admit having a drinking problem as well. (The study didn't look into how much these women were drinking, but did point out that these smart drinkers were more likely to say that their lives had been negatively affected by alcohol.)
Seems like it could just be the actual going to college that's engendering a love of getting crunk, right? But the correlation between intelligence and drinking is so strong that it can be fairly accurately determined whether or not a person is going to drink on a daily basis by the age of 5 -- just by looking at her test scores. Getting a "medium" or "high" score indicates a girl is 2.1 times more likely to drink daily as an adult.
Rather than curse your liver for paining you so, next time try cursing your brain for making you drink in the first place, Poindexter.
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Tuesday 06 April
By Ellie
And getting a high score at the age of five could also indicate a higher chance of going to college, and hence drinking more. Definitely can't make the jump from education to intelligence quite yet.
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Tuesday 06 April
By Dr. Baxter
And the smartest women drink wine. Although the type of beverage preferred was not reported in this study, other studies have found a clear correlation between IQ and preference for wine, and I suspect that this is at least a large part of the explanation for this study's findings. When I was researching the medical literature for my book Age Gets Better with Wine, I came across numerous studies on the connection between cognitive performance and wine, so this study adds to what is already known.
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Thursday 08 April
By Ivana
Of course. If you're intelligent, you understand how horrible life is. And you need alcohol to calm you down.
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Friday 16 April
By shaunna
SO TRUE! I couldn't stop laughing when I read your response, sounded like something coming right out of my mouth.
Thanks for the laugh..........so true though!
Wednesday 07 April
By Isabelle
Well, I'm a little doubtful on these results. The causality might be extremely strong, but every good expert in statistics will let you know that causality does not always mean statistical significance or biological significance. I'd be curious to see what their analysis was, and if their standard deviation was enormous. I'm used to reading from the primary litterature in biochemistry and macroecology but I occasionnaly read sociological articles, and let me say that they're often biased, concluding that their results exemplifies their theory, yet seem to put little weight on exceptions. Also, I really wonder how intelligence was measured...an IQ test, (and this is commonly mistaken) is not a direct form of intelligence.
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