Cleverest women are the heaviest drinkers

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Women who went to university consume more alcohol than their less-highly-educated counterparts, a major study has found.

By Roger Dobson
Published: 10:15AM BST 04 Apr 2010

Those with degrees are almost twice as likely to drink daily, and they are also more likely to admit to having a drinking problem.

A similar link between educational attainment and alcohol consumption is seen among men, but the correlation is less strong.

The findings come from a comprehensive study carried out at the London School of Economics in which researchers tracked the lives of thousands of 39-year-old women and men, all born in the UK during the same week in 1970.

The report concludes: "The more educated women are, the more likely they are to drink alcohol on most days and to report having problems due to their drinking patterns.

"The better-educated appear to be the ones who engage the most in problematic patterns of alcohol consumption."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/women_shealth/7549959/Cleverest-women-are-the-heaviest-drinkers.html

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. So... what are they having?

:-)

[Sabriel]

6. Several shots of Yukon

Also, a bottle of Two-Buck Chuck.

I guess I fall into this category.

[HipChick]

2. Uh-oh..I've been found out..

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. *burp*

excuse me.

[Arugula Latte]

4. A lot of the fundy/Mormon/Baptists types don't go to college

As for me, I consume more than my fair share of white wine on their behalf. :beer:

[stray cat]

5. So liver damage makes people more intelligent perhaps?

or are smart people more emotionally unstable?

[redwitch]

7. Both.

Hiccup.

[rug]

8. Indeed.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=9322999

[Lucian]

9. Makes sense.

The more you know, the more bleak the world becomes. The more bleak your world, the more you'll drink. I've seen depression more prevalent in people who are more educated than I ever have in uneducated people.

I guess ignorance really does equal bliss.

[yankeepants]

10. Way to beat back the surplus of brain cells

Pour me another!

[Writer]

11. The more you learn, the more you grieve.

:beer:

[Odin2005]

12. You drink less if you are blissfully ignorant?

[unpossibles]

15. I'd agree

this is about as surprising to me as that article linking depression and creativity.

[Brickbat]

13. Well, college is where I learned how to drink.

[MilesColtrane]

14. Useless article.

It doesn't include the phone numbers and addresses of these well educated women who like to party.

[Orsino]

16. I think they're also the tallest and most bullet-proof. n/t

[tinymontgomery]

17. I first read this as "Cleavages woman drink more"

I thought big busted woman drank more and showed off their cleavage more. Not that thats a bad thing.

[MrScorpio]

18. This thread is useless without Midlo nt