“Low intelligence test scores in 18 year old men and risk of suicide: cohort study”

Low intelligence test scores in 18 year old men and risk of suicide: cohort study — Gunnell et al. 330 (7484): 167 — BMJ

Some people say that it’s the intelligentsia that die at their own hands, but this report says otherwise.

Scientists at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, have found that young males who have a high IQ have a lower probability of committing suicide, when compared to young men with low IQs. The lower scoring males were three times more likely to kill themselves.

The study was however, performed on Swedish Soldiers.