Smart people are less likely to abstain from drinking (search for the word “floored”). I suspect that the quantitative trend is driven by the choice to drink or not and thus the correlation, even if were causal, is not relevant to the question of how much to drink.
Not that I know of, at least in reasonable amounts (where “reasonable” is defined as not causing clinical-grade medical symptoms, like a failing liver).
I haven’t seen any evidence that moderate drinking lowers IQ. And if your drinking is immoderate, cognitive effects are probably not what you should be worried about.
Yes, you would be right. I don’t think drinking helps with IQ—it’s mostly used as a stress reliever and a social lubricant, in which roles it functions well.
I’m interested in the causal aspects to help me decide how much I should be drinking.
Smart people are less likely to abstain from drinking (search for the word “floored”). I suspect that the quantitative trend is driven by the choice to drink or not and thus the correlation, even if were causal, is not relevant to the question of how much to drink.
Are you just asking how much drinking will make you stupider, long-term?
Yes. I presume it does make you stupider?
Not that I know of, at least in reasonable amounts (where “reasonable” is defined as not causing clinical-grade medical symptoms, like a failing liver).
I haven’t seen any evidence that moderate drinking lowers IQ. And if your drinking is immoderate, cognitive effects are probably not what you should be worried about.
I see. Google tells me that smarter people tend to drink more. Would I be right in assuming that this doesn’t mean I should drink to get smarter?
Yes, you would be right. I don’t think drinking helps with IQ—it’s mostly used as a stress reliever and a social lubricant, in which roles it functions well.