For every one-point increase in IQ score, researchers found a 1.6 percent increase in being a moderate or heavy drinker as opposed to an abstainer.
Those with higher IQ scores, however, were less likely to report binge-drinking episodes.
The results do not necessarily mean that your IQ as a teenager "controls your destiny", explains psychiatrist Sherwood Brown from the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center. But it does suggest that IQ scores are linked to social factors that may influence drinking in mid-life.
Drinking at university was definitely more common in the STEM curriculum than in social sciences in my experience. In our case, more often than not as a necessary lubricant to socialise.