Still, correlations, as she knew well, did not in themselves speak to causality. It could mean nothing more than that kids who were already marked as swots and nerds at the age of 11 were doomed to a life of social exclusion and solitude, and thus avoided social spaces like pubs in favour of long nights in the passionate embrace of Warcraft or Neverwinter Nights.
Or, as Gramsci suggested, if some correlation between intelligence and academic life could be argued, it might be simply that their salaries precluded them buying enough to get sufficiently intoxicated to produce a hangover. But the Cow wasn't convinced on this last point - academic staff earned more than non-academics, after all. Unless Gramsci was implying that opting for an academic position rather than a non-academic one was linked to lower intelligence? She couldn't quite see it.
Still, the link between IQ and hangovers seemed something worth exploring. Strictly in the interests of science, of course! Now, if only she could afford sufficient quantities of single malt to set up the experimental apparatus...