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I don't have access to the full report (roll on open access!), but I'm confused by this: "Of the 3,895 men and 4,148 women who reported drinking alcohol as adu
by danohuiginn 18y ago
I don't have access to the full report (roll on open access!), but I'm confused by this:
"Of the 3,895 men and 4,148 women who reported drinking alcohol as adults, those with higher average scores on childhood mental ability tests were also more likely to have indications of alcohol problems in adulthood"
How does the picture change if you include the teetotalers? Did they plan from the start to exclude the non-drinker, or is that just being repeated because it's a more interesting figures?
- silentbicycle 18y agoGood observation. I wonder if anybody here has actually read the report. (The author of the linked post writes a cocktail blog, so she's at least upfront about her biases.) "People of above average intelligence don't always have equally intelligent coping mechanisms" isn't as punchy a headline, of course...and this is about people whose drinking has caused them serious problems (hospital visits? incarceration?), as per the report, not people who just drink socially or whatever.
- ConradHex 18y agoI think people who never drink, may tend to do so for religious reasons. If someone has never had a drink, they could have a tendency for alcoholism that never has a chance to manifest itself. So maybe that justifies excluding teetotalers from the data?