A recent study carried out at the London School of Economics has shown that women with degrees are nearly twice as likely to drink daily than their less educated counterparts and there is a better chance of them admitting to having a problem with the old booze. And although it wasn’t quite as strong, a similar correlation was found for men too.

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The study was conducted by researchers who followed the lives of thousands of 39-year-old men and women who were all born in the same week in 1970. The report states:

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.

In fact, apparently women with some educational qualifications were 71% more likely to drink most days compared to the women with no qualifications. And men were 49% more likely.

Now before you start blaming the high alcohol consumption on the fact that they have all experienced university life, apparently the study also found that people’s boozy habits can be predicted from their school test scores from as young as when they were five years old. Those who scored medium to high in tests at school were up to 2.1 times more likely to drink daily as other people.

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The researchers have given various explanations as to why this might be, one of those being that they tend to have children later, which postpones the responsibilities of parenthood (although I would’ve thought having to look after an annoying little kid would drive you to the bottle way faster).

Another potential reason is that they might have grown up in middle-class families and so been exposed to boozing more often. And they have more access to disposable income.

I personally reckon that it’s just that intelligent people know what’s up. I mean, it’s great fun to get boozed and it makes nights out that little bit more interesting. Dumbasses are more likely going to sit at home and watch the X-factor or whatever – clever people think, “fuck that, I’m gonna go out and get messy with my mates.”

While we’re on the subject, did you know that drinking beer can help you lose weight? So basically if you’re a boozer, then you’re probably thin and clever. What a result.