High school IQ has negative consequences in adulthood: study will shock you

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It would seem that children with a high level of IQ in school should show impressive performance in the future. But scientists would disagree.

According to a new study from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, high school students with high IQ levels are significantly more likely to drink alcohol as adults, than those who do not use it, writes The New York Post.

We're not saying your high school IQ controls your destiny, says senior study author Dr. E. Sherwood Brown. – But IQ can interfere with social factors that influence alcohol use, and this is an important mechanism to study.

The study drew on data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which includes information on IQ and lifestyle over 10 ,000 Wisconsin high school students born around 1939.

Brown and his colleagues randomly selected 8,254 participants, who answered questions about their drinking habits in 1992 and 2004, when they were about 53 and 65 years old.

The researchers found that for every point increase in IQ, there was a 1.6% increase the probability that the participant reported moderate or heavy drinking.

Moderate drinking was defined as up to 29 drinks per month for women and up to 59 drinks per month for men, and heavy drinking as 30 or more drinks per month for women and 60 or more drinks for men.

Study authors suggested that people with higher IQs may have more stressful jobs, which may lead to alcohol abuse, and that higher-paid workers may have more opportunities to drink on the job.

“Although it is impossible to capture all the underlying mechanisms , which mediate the relationship between alcohol use and IQ, we know that income partially explains the relationship,” said study co-author Jaime Palka, associate professor of psychiatry.

A higher level of IQ was associated with alcohol abuse/Photo by master1305

Researchers noted that people with a higher IQ are less prone to binge drinking which are considered five or more drinks in one sitting. Men reported more binge drinking episodes than women.

The results of the study were published in the July issue of the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism.

The study authors note that further studies should include a more diverse sample of the population. , because the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study involved nearly all non-Hispanic whites.

The study comes at a time when some experts argue that no amount of alcohol is good because excessive drinking is associated with heart and liver diseases, stroke, various types of cancer and weakening of the immune system.