[lbo-talk] bigger vocab, bigger drinker

[bill hoffman]

I can't find a chart in the gawker article that references "quantity" of
alcohol consumed with one exception. Most would interpret "drink more" or
"drink more alcohol" to refer to a quantity, not whether a person is a
teetotaler or not. The charts are best interpreted as saying something about
non-drinkers, as "none" is really the only clearly expressed indicator of
frequency.

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:33 AM, James Leveque <jamespl79 at googlemail.com>wrote:


> If I were to give some sort of off-the-cuff explanation, I would guess that
> people who drink more are probably drinking socially, meeting a lot more
> people of a variety of social backgrounds and educational levels, and
> picking up a wider vocabulary. That's just a guess though.
>
> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > http://gawker.com/5533732/smart-people-drink-more-alcohol
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