Not blacking out while drinking heavily probably strongly correlated with IQ (cognitive reserve) and physical condition. Kav was an extremely smart athlete, believable he not blackout when most others would have. @NateSilver538
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Replying to @JimDMiller @NateSilver538
I don't know, I have a pretty high IQ and I think I'm more susceptible than most to blacking out (ie, not remembering what happened) from drinking. I'm not sure what the mechanism is, but probably interference with memory consolidation from hippocampus to cortex?
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Replying to @jrwill9 @NateSilver538
He probably has an exceptional memory. If true wouldn't you expect that drinking makes it less likely than for most that he blackouts?
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The critical factor is how much alcohol he’s able to ingest before getting sick or incapacitated, and that’s unrelated to IQ. There’s no amount of memory capacity that will keep recording if his BAC shoots up high enough.
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Agreed, but consider a level of alcohol that would make, say, 90% of white 20-year old males blackout. Would you expect that the remaining 10% would disproportionately consist of high IQ males in great physical condition?
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In my experience, guys as smart and fit as Kavanaugh was can definitely black out
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I don't know you so please don't take offense. But do you have much experience with guys as smart as Kav? He isn't just high school smart, he is the best law school in the world smart.
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I think the only way we’re going to settle this is if I can dig up an anecdote of Niels Bohr getting absolutely r3kt
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Replying to @paul_hundred @JimDMiller and
Maybe the chemical pathway for alcohol to the brain is different in different heritages. His surname is Scottish i believe.:-)
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