A study backs up the notion that smart people drink more than lesser intelligent folk: the Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis.
Pass the prosecco.
Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa explores why intelligent people drink more alcohol in a piece that appeared on Psychology Today's website and in the paper "Intelligence and Substance Use."
He concludes that “intelligent individuals may be more likely to prefer drinking modern alcoholic beverages (beer, wine and distilled spirits) than less intelligent individuals, because the substance and the method of consumption are both evolutionarily novel.”
‘Evolutionarily novel’ relates to values and preferences people are not biologically designed to have and our ancestors probably did not have.
Kanazawa conclusion have influenced many reports since it published in 2010.
MSN, in a report late last year, seemingly cites studies from the United Kingdom and the United States that Kanazawa mentions. Both found that "dull" and "very dull" children grew up to drink less as adults than "bright and "very bright" children.
Kanazawa makes his conclusions. Below we make ours.
Five reasons smarter people drink more, if in fact smarter people actually do drink more:
1) It is harder to kill a smarter person's brain cells. Who needs that clutter?
2) Someday someone will say vodka is good for your heart.
3) Ingesting a few glasses of vino helps make everyone sound smarter.
Socrates said “you can’t take a liver with you.”
5) The awesome burden of superior intellect.
6) Fermentation is fascinating.
7) Flip cup, that notoriously intoxicating college drinking game, stimulates the cerebellum.
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