> Cognitive reasoning has nothing to do with addiction.
Citation needed. As the GP pointed out, we have a correlation between addiction and lower cognitive function based on this study.
Citation needed. As the GP pointed out, we have a correlation between addiction and lower cognitive function based on this study.
Not only is "plenty" not an objective quantity, but even an objectively large quantity is irrelevant if it's not a large percentage of the whole. 100k geniuses with addiction problems wouldn't disprove the rule if there are 1b people with addiction problems who are of below average intelligence.
You could swap "plenty" to "every" and it would still have the same problem
How many is plenty? And how does that compare to the general population? The claim isn’t that addiction and intelligence are mutually exclusive. Rather, the claim is that intelligence makes addiction less likely.
According to the study, alcoholics had a lower baseline IQ before becoming addicted to alcohol. So that does seem to support that lower cognitive function is somehow linked to becoming an addict.
Better to note that since the study isn't claiming every person who smokes suffer cognitive decline showing a person who is a genius and smokes isn't a counter