According to three separate but equally amazing studies, the smarter you are, the more likely you are to stay up late, have sex and party. Also known as all of our favourite things.
Recently, Lovehoney.co.uk funded research that determined students studying at prestigious universities such as Oxford and Cambridge spend more money on sex toys than their peers at other universities. While this hardly seems totally conclusive, we'll let you draw your own reasons as to why this might be. Over in the drugs department, however, comes the 2010 study that ran in Psychology Today, which states that those with an IQ of 125 or higher are much more likely to use drugs. The study states that:
"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)."
And of course, those who like to have sex and take drugs usually like to stay up past their bedtimes, which leads us to the academic paper "Why The Night Owl Is More Intelligent," published in the journal Psychology And Individual Differences. The study basically surmises that humans have been conditions over the millennia to sleep when it's dark and work when it's light, however those who tend to not follow the trend are more likely to develop certain helpful evolutionarily "values and preferences than less intelligent individuals."
With the recent findings that most illegal drugs have newly discovered heath benefits, it seems this week just can't get much better. So next time you're out clubbing with friends on a Tuesday night wondering if you should just say no and head home early, fear not, you've got brains, science and evolution on your side.