The smarter you are, the more you drink

[Effluo]

http://theweek.com/article/index/208...avier-drinkers

Why do smart kids grow up to be heavier drinkers?
A pair of new studies suggests a correlation between intelligence and a thirst for alcohol. What's the connection?

Don't worry, all that excessive drinking is just a sign of your intelligence. According to two long-term studies — one American, one British — there's a correlation between smarts and a thirst for alcohol. The "more intelligent children in both studies grew up to drink alcohol more frequently and in greater quantities than less intelligent children," says Liz Day at Discover. Why might this be the case?

It's all about evolution: Drinking alcohol was "unintentional, accidental, and haphazard until about 10,000 years ago," says Satoshi Kanazawaat at Psychology Today. Smart people are generally early adopters and, in the context of human history, "the substance [alcohol] and the method of consumption are both evolutionarily novel."
"Why intelligent people drink more alcohol"

Alcohol makes up for boring early years: "I'm surprised" by the findings, says Joanne Hinkel at The Frisky, so "here’s my pop-psychology theory" to explain it: "All that studying in childhood repressed kids so much that they’re still trying to compensate well into adulthood for all that fun they missed." Granted, that's just a theory.
"Brain types booze more — are you surprised?"

Drinking is the only way to deal with morons: Smart people "booze so we can tolerate everyone else," says Greg at Food & Wine Blog. When sober, we tend to "take people’s responses at literal face value." But after a few drinks, "we can relax a bit, stop being so anal with semantics and let comments slide a bit."
"Speculative reasons why smart people drink more"

[Headspace]

No.

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[Shalyn]

Drinking is the only way to deal with morons: Smart people "booze so we can tolerate everyone else," says Greg at Food & Wine Blog. When sober, we tend to "take people’s responses at literal face value." But after a few drinks, "we can relax a bit, stop being so anal with semantics and let comments slide a bit."

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[Fr34k]

Then explain Bubba

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XY-7b_lC8I...inking+hat.JPG

[BerenTebogo]

What an amazingly credible study!

[Xno Kappa]

Fuck yeah! I'm the next Einstein.

[Ksandra]

if this were true my uncle would be the smartest person in the world.

[Pirian]

What an amazingly credible study!

Wasn't there just another study posted a few weeks ago that made essentially this exact same argument? Maybe it was a few months ago, all this alcohol has distorted my sense of time

[Jodwahh]

Sheriushly dguiz I;,m sho fhuckinfs smarta riefht now,


wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[kuronosan]

Making up studies with no correlation to support personal desires GO!

[Jaregue]

Drinking is the only way to deal with morons: Smart people "booze so we can tolerate everyone else," says Greg at Food & Wine Blog. When sober, we tend to "take people’s responses at literal face value." But after a few drinks, "we can relax a bit, stop being so anal with semantics and let comments slide a bit."
"Speculative reasons why smart people drink more"

could care less about the study or w/e they are trying to say, but i drink for that reason. there are a lot of dumb fucks out there that i want to stab so hard.

[kuronosan]

could care less about the study or w/e they are trying to say, but i drink for that reason. there are a lot of dumb fucks out there that i want to stab so hard.

Sounds like you need a little more than drinking to help you out, psycho.

[Jaregue]

Sounds like you need a little more than drinking to help you out, psycho.

how am i psycho for thinking everyone is a dip shit?

[kuronosan]

Hey, if you want to think people are stupid that's your opinion. It's the "wanting to stab them" that concerns me, coupled with your drinking.

[Jaregue]

Hey, if you want to think people are stupid that's your opinion. It's the "wanting to stab them" that concerns me, coupled with your drinking.

well not everyone is that way, but a lot of the people i meet are, and me wanting to stab them is just me expressing my hate to them.
i'm somewhat of an angry person and a few drinks chill me out. :\

[Shiroikage]

I wouldn't worry too much.
Even if you are an asshole, and you certainly are an asshole, kurono is still a fuckface.

[Cadsuane]

I probably want the conclusions of this study to be true more than it actually is.

[Omniyoji]

I beg to differ...

[Tagus]

Ironically enough, drinking alot tends to lead to brain shrinkage in adulthood according to other studies. So... born smart, drink more, brain shrinks more? Alcohol is apparently the great leveler of intellects.

[SubzeroDiabolos]

I used to drink alot. I think now everybody can safely reject that study.