Study Shows Smarter People Drink More Alcohol
If after a tough week in anatomy class you tend to hit happy hour a little harder than the others, you may have some cover. Thin cover but cover nonetheless.
More intelligent children in both studies grew up to drink alcohol more frequently and in greater quantities than less intelligent children.
A National Child Development Study and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (U.K. and US respectively) show that smarter kids drink more as adults. Empirical data from both studies suggests that more intelligent people are more likely to binge drink and get drunk.
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