According to a report in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health persons with a high IQ are less likely to experience a hangover.
The study examined IQ scores taken in the 1960's from more than 7000 adolescent boys and girls age 11. Then the researchers sent out questionnaires nearly 40 years later assessing drinking habits including the occurrence of hangovers.
They found that individuals with higher IQ, at the level of genius, were less likely to experience a hangover.
The study did not assess drinking amounts so they cannot say definitively why hangovers were less common. They did conclude that perhaps it was due to a lower propensity of binge drinking, which commonly results in a hangover.
Posted by Dr. Christina Gutierrez on September 17, 2006 02:58 PM
