Higher IQ scores at age 10 may be associated with alcohol-related problems in adulthood.
Public health experts from the University of Glasgow were able to obtain the childhood mental ability scores of over 8,000 men and women in their 30s, and found — much to their surprise — the higher IQ, the higher the likelihood of developing a drinking problem. The correlation existed even after factoring out socioeconomic status, and was stronger in women than it was in men.
The researchers declared the results were “unexpected” and feel the need for “further examination.”(source)
Swell.
Fits with my ideas about most things related to intellect — the higher the intellect, the more likely you are to question the world around you, the status quo, etc., which tends to lead you to some very unsatisfactory and unsettling answers.
If you’re stupid, well you’re just too stupid to know that you’re stupid… and you tend to allow other people lie to you about what the answers are — because you’re just smart enough to know that they are a little smarter than you, so they *must* know better than you.
