Top 12 common traits in highly intelligent people (+Pics)

11. They Might Use Drugs

This will perhaps tick off everyone reading this article, but I am not one to argue against the facts. In 2012, a group of researchers conducted an investigation into children’s IQs and their risk of using illegal drugs. The results were a bit disturbing, because they suggest that the high school children who had a higher IQ were more likely to engage in illegal drug use compared to other high school children with a lower IQ.

However, it is important to note here that the study did not state that those people who engage in alcohol or illegal drug taking become more intelligent, it is the ones with a high IQ that tend to get into drinking and drugs. Taking illegal drugs and excess alcohol will affect an individual’s IQ negatively.