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"Smart people have a statistically higher incidence of winding up dead in ditches due to alcohol poisoning! Go us!" Who actually said that? I'm sorry if the an
by bd 18y ago
"Smart people have a statistically higher incidence of winding up dead in ditches due to alcohol poisoning! Go us!"
Who actually said that? I'm sorry if the anecdote I mentioned was misinterpreted. It was just one data point. Just like the one about Feynman :).
BTW the original article had 8170 datapoints. And in the free abstract they tell that higher childhood mental ability scores were related not just to incidence of the problems but also with "to higher average intake of alcohol and to drinking more frequently".
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/12/2237 http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/12/2237
- silentbicycle 18y agoIt wasn't yours, and the ones I had in mind (in tone, not verbatim) seem to have been deleted or rephrased enough that I'm no longer reading them that way. As for your anecdote, sad indeed. I was also thinking of the post about Phil Katz's death on here a few weeks back. It's a horrible way to die.