Alcohol Improves IQ

It is thought that an ingredient of alcoholic drinks may help prevent or restrict the hardening of the arteries which could lessen blood flow to the brain.

However, there are other factors linked to moderate alcohol consumption which could also be linked to improved IQ.

The researchers, at the National Institute for Longevity Sciences in Aichi Prefecture, near Tokyo, tested the IQs of 2000 people between 40 and 79 years old.

Men who drank less than 540 millilitres of sake or wine a day had an IQ 3.3 points higher than men who did not drink at all.

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Looks to be statistically significant to me. 2000 is a decent sized sample.

Are your worlds rocked?

I laughed at the Windows ME part.

XKCD is actually a site I frequent often, I love this webcomic.

I laughed at the Windows ME part.

XKCD is actually a site I frequent often, I love this webcomic.

Panzer-schreck

Yes, I visitthat comic on a regular basis myself. Some of the jokes tend to get too mathematical and the joke flies over my head, but when that happens, I just trick myself into thinking that I understood and I "he-he" nonetheless.

interesting...

Alcohol just kills off the dumb brain cells- kind of an internal natural selection. The more you drink, the smarter you become.

Smarter people have more money, therefore it's more likely that smart people can afford drinking wine and sake every day... it could be the IQ that makes it's easier for them to have drink more Alcohol instead of vice versa.

Sorry, I've just been taught to not have too much trust in statistics...

Smarter people have more money, therefore it's more likely that smart people can afford drinking wine and sake every day... it could be the IQ that makes it's easier for them to have drink more Alcohol instead of vice versa.

Sorry, I've just been taught to not have too much trust in statistics...

Hungry_bunny

To put your mind at ease I can assure you that poor and middleclass drink just as much as the wealthy...they just drink cheaper.

[QUOTE="Hungry_bunny"]

Smarter people have more money, therefore it's more likely that smart people can afford drinking wine and sake every day... it could be the IQ that makes it's easier for them to have drink more Alcohol instead of vice versa.

Sorry, I've just been taught to not have too much trust in statistics...

LJS9502_basic

To put your mind at ease I can assure you that poor and middleclass drink just as much as the wealthy...they just drink cheaper.

Alcohol just kills off the dumb brain cells- kind of an internal natural selection. The more you drink, the smarter you become.

kandre

I agree, I just gotta get the wife to see it this way.

[QUOTE="Hungry_bunny"]

Smarter people have more money, therefore it's more likely that smart people can afford drinking wine and sake every day... it could be the IQ that makes it's easier for them to have drink more Alcohol instead of vice versa.

Sorry, I've just been taught to not have too much trust in statistics...

LJS9502_basic

To put your mind at ease I can assure you that poor and middleclass drink just as much as the wealthy...they just drink cheaper.

Maybe it's the cheap stuff that's messing with minds. Besides PBR, of course.
BranKetra

if thats true I should be the smartest man on the planetWizz46

[QUOTE="Wizz46"]if thats true I should be the smartest man on the planetdouble_decker

do I smell a challenge?!

do I smell a challenge?!

Wizz46

Moderate is the magic word here.

PS. it only raised it about 3 point, whoop de doo

Smarter people have more money, therefore it's more likely that smart people can afford drinking wine and sake every day... it could be the IQ that makes it's easier for them to have drink more Alcohol instead of vice versa.

Sorry, I've just been taught to not have too much trust in statistics...

Hungry_bunny