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Smart people do more drugs

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I knew it!!!

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Smart-People-Do-More-Drugs-Because-of-Evolution-2425

Consistent with the prediction of the Hypothesis, the analysis of the National Child Development Study shows that more intelligent children in the United Kingdom are more likely to grow up to consume psychoactive drugs than less intelligent children. ... "Very bright" individuals (with IQs above 125) are roughly three-tenths of a standard deviation more likely to consume psychoactive drugs than "very dull" individuals (with IQs below 75).

If that pattern holds across societies, then it runs directly counter to a lot of our preconceived notions about both intelligence and drug use:

People--scientists and civilians alike--often associate intelligence with positive life outcomes. The fact that more intelligent individuals are more likely to consume alcohol, tobacco, and psychoactive drugs tampers this universally positive view of intelligence and intelligent individuals. Intelligent people don't always do the right thing, only the evolutionarily novel thing.

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http://wilderdom.com/intelligence/IQWhatScoresMean.html

Basically it's saying only genius or people with superior intelligence fall into the above category and someone mentioned it already that they are just bored with life.

Also, the "very dull" or bottom half means you are seriously deficient and/or borderline retarded so I don't think drugs are an option.

Most of the people that do drugs are still probably stupid and most smart people (above average intelligence, not genius) don't do drugs.

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http://wilderdom.com/intelligence/IQWhatScoresMean.html

Basically it's saying only genius or people with superior intelligence fall into the above category and someone mentioned it already that they are just bored with life.

Also, the "very dull" or bottom half means you are seriously deficient and/or borderline retarded so I don't think drugs are an option.

Most of the people that do drugs are still probably stupid and most smart people (above average intelligence, not genius) don't do drugs.

However, geniuses are usually crazy and need drugs to calm themselves down.

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Is it true that Einstein proved his theory of relativity while on acid or something? I remember hearing that somewhere.

I don't know if there is proof of that, he might have done it, but LSD wasn't even really known about by Hoffmann until '43 when he absorbed it on accident. Einsten may have tried it though.

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I don't know if there is proof of that, he might have done it, but LSD wasn't even really known about by Hoffmann until '43 when he absorbed it on accident. Einsten may have tried it though.

I just happend to catch a documentary on TV about that today. I would freak out if I took LSD by accident!

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