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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 12 May 2014 04:51:30PM 3 points [-]

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.