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Smarter People Stay Up Later, Do More Drugs and Have More Sex * 1
    #19174358 - 11/22/13 10:06 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Sex. Drugs. Late nights.

You may be reading the first four words of my memoir. Or you could be simply listing three things that show signs of being a genius, according to various studies. There's evidence that shows that if you're spending less of your nights hitting the books and more time smoking weed and getting laid until 3am, then you're probably wiser than the rest of us. The three things that got me kicked out of college are apparently the things that the people at the best colleges do all the time.

Researchers in England have found that students studying at prestigious universities such as Oxford and Cambridge spend more on sex toys than their peers at other universities. Cambridge and Oxford's sex toy sales on just one website (Lovehoney.co.uk, who funded the research) totaled a staggering $31, 461. No word on what products they ordered, nor whether they kept their glasses on while they used them.

"The correlation probably has something to do with the open-mindedness that comes with intelligence," says Annalisa Rose, 23, who works at Honey, a high-end sex shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. "I think that the ability to engage in an open sex life comes with the abilities of introspection and logical thought, and those require some level of intelligence. If we're talking about an open sex life that comes from an emotionally healthy place, sexual mores are mostly made up anyway and intelligent people can rationalize past them," she continued.

The 2nd part of our "genius trifecta" is drugs. Smarter people are more likely to smoke pot or do a line than the average simpleton. This is because, according to many studies, a smarter person isn't more likely to choose the "smarter" choice of not doing drugs but is instead more likely to pursue the more evolutionary novel choice, one that would inherently expand their horizons. Smarter people don't necessarily 'think smarter' - they simply rationalize where they're supposed to "feel." So while a less intelligent person is less likely to pick up a heroin habit in the first place, the more intelligent person will rationalize it. (This explains every good jazz album ever made and also every Christian rock album ever made in the same sentence.)

A 2010 study that ran in Psychology Today (what, you don't subscribe?) also states that those with an IQ of 125 or higher are exponentially more likely to use drugs. Says the study:

Net of sex, religion, religiosity, marital status, number of children, education, earnings, depression, satisfaction with life, social class at birth, mother’s education, and father’s education, British children who are more intelligent before the age of 16 are more likely to consume psychoactive drugs at age 42 than less intelligent children.

... there is a clear monotonic association between childhood general intelligence and adult consumption of psychoactive drugs. “Very bright” individuals (with IQs above 125) are roughly three-tenths of a standard deviation more likely to consume psychoactive drugs than “very dull” individuals (with IQs below 75).

Late nights, too, play a leading role in that of the smart person: an academic paper entitled "Why The Night Owl Is More Intelligent," published in the journal Psychology And Individual Differences, says that for several millennia humans have been largely conditioned to work during the day and sleep at night. Those that buck the trend, the paper suggests "...that more intelligent individuals may be more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values and preferences than less intelligent individuals." The paper goes on to say that those who are more liberal and more inclined towards atheism are more likely to be intelligent, too.

Essentially, if you're more of a forward thinker, if you're trying something new and pushing your boundaries, you're most likely more intelligent. This doesn't mean that Toronto mayor Rob Ford is some kind of lucid genius, however. It merely suggest that smarter people are more likely to have more sex, do drugs, and stay up late.

So if you're getting laid at 3am on Sunday morning and have a full bowl packed beside the bed and you aren't going to church the next day, you're probably a genius.

Either that or you're incredibly good at living your best life, as Oprah says.

By Ned Hepburn on November 21, 2013
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/smart-means-sex-and-drugs-and-staying-up


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Carl Sagan - "Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

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Robert Pirsig - "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."

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Brian Cox - "[One] problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense."


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Re: Smarter People Stay Up Later, Do More Drugs and Have More Sex [Re: Simplepowa]
    #19174442 - 11/22/13 10:31 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Fuck yea


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Re: Smarter People Stay Up Later, Do More Drugs and Have More Sex [Re: Sheekle] * 3
    #19174482 - 11/22/13 10:44 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I think there's a reason why this piece appeared in Esquire, an not a scientific journal.


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...the whole experience is (and is as) a profound piece of knowledge.  It is an indellible experience; it is forever known.  I have known myself in a way I doubt I would have ever occurred except as it did.

Smith, P.  Bull. Menninger Clinic (1959) 23:20-27; p. 27.

...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.

Osmond, H.  Annals, NY Acad Science (1957) 66:418-434; p.436


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Re: Smarter People Stay Up Later, Do More Drugs and Have More Sex [Re: badchad]
    #19174533 - 11/22/13 11:10 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

its what divides us from everyone else :tongue2:


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Re: Smarter People Stay Up Later, Do More Drugs and Have More Sex [Re: Simplepowa] * 4
    #19174558 - 11/22/13 11:22 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

There is no objective way to measure intelligence. People who go to places like Harvard and Oxford are not smarter, just rich and well connected. Further, the amount spent on sex toys probably has a lot more to do with the number of women and their wealth than with intelligence. Beyond that, IQ is a notoriously poor measure of intelligence.

Also, 3/10 of a standard deviation is a very, very small difference. 3/10 of a standard deviation is not considered statistically significant.


Edited by nooneman (11/22/13 11:27 AM)


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Re: Smarter People Stay Up Later, Do More Drugs and Have More Sex [Re: nooneman]
    #19174630 - 11/22/13 11:50 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

a less intelligent person is less likely to pick up a heroin habit in the first place




Oh ok. I thought it was the less intelligent people who pick up heroin in the first place. Thanks for clearing it up.


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Re: Smarter People Stay Up Later, Do More Drugs and Have More Sex [Re: badchad]
    #19174985 - 11/22/13 02:04 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

badchad said:
I think there's a reason why this piece appeared in Esquire, an not a scientific journal.



:nodofunderstanding:


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Re: Smarter People Stay Up Later, Do More Drugs and Have More Sex [Re: mylfgur]
    #19175633 - 11/22/13 05:07 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I kinda missed the sex part. Does that mean I'm only 2/3 of a genius?


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Re: Smarter People Stay Up Later, Do More Drugs and Have More Sex [Re: Lord_McLovin]
    #19175670 - 11/22/13 05:17 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

wonder what was keeping me up at night to watch adult swim ..

im smart!


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Re: Smarter People Stay Up Later, Do More Drugs and Have More Sex [Re: Atrium]
    #19178619 - 11/23/13 11:46 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Nevermind what i was gonna say ahah i read it wrong


Edited by Jvells (11/23/13 11:54 AM)


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