Posted on 01/25/2005 6:23:36 PM PST by beavus
January 20, 2005 -- Intellectual capacity in early adulthood is strongly related to subsequent risk of suicide in men, finds a study in this week's BMJ.
Few previous studies have assessed the association of measures of intelligence with suicide, and results have often conflicted.
Researchers analysed the results of four intelligence tests, performed at conscription into military service, for 987,308 Swedish men. The men were monitored for up to 26 years and suicides were recorded.
Better performance on the tests was associated with a reduced risk of suicide. The strongest associations were with the logic test score, where the risk of suicide was three times higher in the lowest compared with the highest scorers.
The strength of the link and the large sample size suggest that this finding is unlikely to be due to chance, they add. One possible explanation could be that influences on brain development during childhood also increase an individual's susceptibility to mental illness and hence suicide. Alternatively, it may be due to an individual's ability to solve problems in times of crisis or maladjustment in childhood, they conclude.
Dullards?
Well stated.
Doesn't Sweden have a pretty high suicide rate anyway? I wonder what similar studies would turn up in Japan.
Us really smart fellers never turn suicidal. Homicidal, now that's the ticket.
Maybe they kill themselves because everyone calls them stupid all the time.
International Violent Death Rate Table (Death rates are per 100,000)
Country | Year | Population | Total Death | Total Homicide | Firearm Homicide | Total Suicide | Firearm Suicide | % Households With Guns |
Estonia | 1994 | 1,499,257 | 70.76 | 28.21 | 8.07 | 40.95 | 3.13 | n/a |
Hungary | 1994 | 10,245,677 | 39.01 | 3.53 | 0.23 | 35.38 | 0.88 | n/a |
Slovenia | 1994 | 1,989,477 | 33.37 | 2.01 | 0.35 | 31.16 | 2.51 | n/a |
Finland1 | 1994 | 5,088,333 | 30.72 | 3.24 | 0.86 | 27.26 | 5.78 | 23.2 |
Brazil | 1993 | 160,737,000 | 25.34 | 19.04 | 10.58 | 3.46 | 0.73 | n/a |
Denmark | 1993 | 5,189,378 | 23.46 | 1.21 | 0.23 | 22.13 | 2.25 | n/a |
Austria | 1994 | 8,029,717 | 23.36 | 1.17 | 0.42 | 22.12 | 4.06 | n/a |
Switzerland2 | 1994 | 7,021,000 | 22.80 | 1.32 | 0.58 | 21.28 | 5.61 | 27.2 |
France | 1994 | 57,915,450 | 22.67 | 1.12 | 0.44 | 20.79 | 5.14 | 22.6 |
Mexico | 1994 | 90,011,259 | 21.74 | 17.58 | 9.88 | 2.89 | 0.91 | n/a |
Belgium | 1990 | 9,967,387 | 20.77 | 1.41 | 0.60 | 19.04 | 2.56 | 16.6 |
Portugal | 1994 | 5,138,600 | 18.95 | 2.98 | 1.28 | 14.83 | 1.28 | n/a |
United States3 | 1993 | 257,783,004 | 18.57 | 5.70 | 3.72 | 12.06 | 7.35 | 39.0 |
Japan | 1994 | 124,069,000 | 17.34 | 0.62 | 0.02 | 16.72 | 0.04 | n/a |
Sweden | 1993 | 8,718,571 | 17.12 | 1.30 | 0.18 | 15.75 | 2.09 | 15.1 |
Germany4 | 1994 | 81,338,093 | 17.00 | 1.17 | 0.22 | 15.64 | 1.17 | 8.9 |
Taiwan5 | 1996 | 21,979,444 | 15.00 | 8.12 | 0.97 | 6.88 | 0.12 | n/a |
Singapore | 1994 | 2,930,200 | 15.77 | 1.71 | 0.07 | 14.06 | 0.17 | n/a |
Canada | 1992 | 28,120,065 | 15.64 | 2.16 | 0.76 | 13.19 | 3.72 | 29.1 |
Mauritius | 1993 | 1,062,810 | 15.42 | 2.35 | 0 | 12.98 | 0.09 | n/a |
Argentina | 1994 | 34,179,000 | 15.25 | 4.51 | 2.11 | 6.71 | 3.05 | n/a |
Norway | 1993 | 4,324,815 | 14.75 | 0.97 | 0.30 | 13.64 | 3.95 | 32.0 |
N. Ireland | 1994 | 1,641,711 | 14.74 | 6.09 | 5.24 | 8.41 | 1.34 | 8.4 |
Australia | 1994 | 17,838,401 | 14.65 | 1.86 | 0.44 | 12.65 | 2.35 | 19.4 |
New Zealand | 1993 | 3,458,850 | 14.63 | 1.47 | 0.17 | 12.81 | 2.14 | 22.3 |
Scotland | 1994 | 5,132,400 | 14.46 | 2.24 | 0.19 | 12.16 | 0.31 | 4.7 |
Hong Kong | 1993 | 5,919,000 | 11.52 | 1.23 | 0.12 | 10.29 | 0.07 | n/a |
Netherlands | 1994 | 15,382,830 | 11.25 | 1.11 | 0.36 | 10.10 | 0.31 | 1.9 |
South Korea | 1994 | 44,453,179 | 11.17 | 1.62 | 0.04 | 9.48 | 0.02 | n/a |
Ireland | 1991 | 3,525,719 | 10.68 | 0.62 | 0.03 | 9.81 | 0.94 | n/a |
Italy | 1992 | 56,764,854 | 10.42 | 2.25 | 1.66 | 8.00 | 1.11 | 16.0 |
England/Wales6 | 1992 | 51,429,000 | 9.53 | 1.41 | 0.11 | 7.68 | 0.33 | 4.7 |
Israel | 1993 | 5,261,700 | 9.80 | 2.32 | 0.72 | 7.05 | 1.84 | n/a |
Spain | 1993 | 39,086,079 | 8.97 | 0.95 | 0.21 | 7.77 | 0.43 | 13.1 |
Greece | 1994 | 10,426,289 | 4.61 | 1.14 | 0.59 | 3.40 | 0.84 | n/a |
Kuwait | 1995 | 1,684,529 | 3.50 | 1.01 | 0.36 | 1.66 | 0.06 | n/a |
Country | Year | Population | Total Death | Total Homicide | Firearm Homicide | Total Suicide | Firearm Suicide | % Households With Guns |
The kind of people of which you speak are usually very well liked by others. I suspect all else equal, that would reduce their risk of suicide.
Again, those with higher suicide risk don't LACK intellect, they have lower intellect.
LOL!
So, what is the relevent difference between Kuwait and Estonia, anyway?
Again, those with higher suicide risk don't LACK intellect, they have lower intellect.Argghhhh! I could debate semantics with you all day long.
Take "LACK" for instance. It means to be short of
So those that are drinking the bitter-almond-scented koolaid, very much LACK intellect.
After all, it isn't the the dolphin that will inherit the earth, it will be the cockroach.
After all, it isn't the the dolphin that will inherit the earth, it will be the cockroach.Not if the environuts are right, and sea levels rise!
Maybe Douglas Adams was on to something...
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons.
Yes. The author is buying a Saturday Night Special as we write.
I can't speak for AdamSelene235, but all my friends that committed suicide are about evenly split on intellect - about half were pretty stupid and the other half fairly bright.
The only thing they had in common was their friendship with me.
Hmmm - I wonder why I don't have any friends left.
(just kidding)
;^D
lol! (Sorry, sick sense of humor.)
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