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I highly doubt intelligent people drink more alcohol. Anyone have additional information about this?

gte910h 16y ago
As alcohol is moderately expensive, I assume it would correlate with income, which does moderately correlate with intelligence.
- Psyonic 16y ago
  Low-riding your car also costs money, but I don't think it correlates with income. At least not in the direction you'd expect.
  - gte910h 16y ago
    While you are pointing out something that does cost money, it is a niche product only used by a certain social group. I'd assume within the social group (which I'm not even sure how to define), you actually would find it correlates with income.
    - Psyonic 16y ago
      While this is certainly true (you have to a car to low-ride it), shouldn't be expect social groups to be at play with alcohol as well? For example, lawyers tend be to more intelligent (and have higher incomes) than the general population, and perhaps lawyers tend to drink more. Is this suggestive of a correlation with income, or profession? Do the smarter and presumably better paid lawyers drink more than others?
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      - gte910h 16y ago
        It actually looks like they controlled for income, see the link above. It looks like its actual IQ that has the highest correlation.
        Psyonic 16y ago
        Ya, it appears so. I wonder what their methodology was.
burgerbrain 16y ago
I'm not entirely sure, but perhaps you could ask "the National Child Development Study in the United Kingdom and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in the United States". You may doubt it, but their study indicates otherwise. Now there may be problems with their paper, but random "doubts" aren't them.
sasvari 16y ago
Psychology Today tries to give an explanation on Why Intelligent People Drink More Alcohol, and they claim: It is important to note that both income and education, as well as childhood social class and parents’ education, are controlled in multiple regression analyses of these data from the US and the UK. It means that it is not because more intelligent people occupy higher-paying, more important jobs that require them to socialize and drink with their business associates that they drink more alcohol. It appears to be their intelligence itself, rather than correlates of intelligence, that inclines them to drink more. also interesting: Consistent with the prediction of the Hypothesis, more intelligent children, both in the United Kingdom and the United States, grow up to consume alcohol more frequently and in greater quantities than less intelligent children. Controlling for a large number of demographic variables, such as sex, race, ethnicity, religion, marital status, number of children, education, earnings, depression, satisfaction with life, frequency of socialization with friends, number of recent sex partners, childhood social class, mother’s education, and father’s education, more intelligent children grow up to drink more alcohol in the UK and the US. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201010/why-intelligent-people-drink-more-alcohol http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundament...

As alcohol is moderately expensive, I assume it would correlate with income, which does moderately correlate with intelligence.

Psyonic 16y ago
Low-riding your car also costs money, but I don't think it correlates with income. At least not in the direction you'd expect.
- gte910h 16y ago
  While you are pointing out something that does cost money, it is a niche product only used by a certain social group. I'd assume within the social group (which I'm not even sure how to define), you actually would find it correlates with income.
  - Psyonic 16y ago
    While this is certainly true (you have to a car to low-ride it), shouldn't be expect social groups to be at play with alcohol as well? For example, lawyers tend be to more intelligent (and have higher incomes) than the general population, and perhaps lawyers tend to drink more. Is this suggestive of a correlation with income, or profession? Do the smarter and presumably better paid lawyers drink more than others?
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    - gte910h 16y ago
      It actually looks like they controlled for income, see the link above. It looks like its actual IQ that has the highest correlation.
      - Psyonic 16y ago
        Ya, it appears so. I wonder what their methodology was.

burgerbrain 16y ago

I'm not entirely sure, but perhaps you could ask "the National Child Development Study in the United Kingdom and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in the United States". You may doubt it, but their study indicates otherwise. Now there may be problems with their paper, but random "doubts" aren't them.

sasvari 16y ago

Psychology Today tries to give an explanation on Why Intelligent People Drink More Alcohol, and they claim: It is important to note that both income and education, as well as childhood social class and parents’ education, are controlled in multiple regression analyses of these data from the US and the UK. It means that it is not because more intelligent people occupy higher-paying, more important jobs that require them to socialize and drink with their business associates that they drink more alcohol. It appears to be their intelligence itself, rather than correlates of intelligence, that inclines them to drink more. also interesting: Consistent with the prediction of the Hypothesis, more intelligent children, both in the United Kingdom and the United States, grow up to consume alcohol more frequently and in greater quantities than less intelligent children. Controlling for a large number of demographic variables, such as sex, race, ethnicity, religion, marital status, number of children, education, earnings, depression, satisfaction with life, frequency of socialization with friends, number of recent sex partners, childhood social class, mother’s education, and father’s education, more intelligent children grow up to drink more alcohol in the UK and the US. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201010/why-intelligent-people-drink-more-alcohol http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundament...