My headmeats!

[andrewducker]

A few weeks ago Julie passed on an email that was making the rounds of the psychology department, from someone looking for volunteers to have an MRI scan of their brain, which would then be compared to schizophrenics.

Having always wanted a photo of my brain, I immediately volunteered.

Last Friday I finally made it along for the pre-scan testing, where they made sure I could see in colour (yes!) check my reflexes (ok, but not great) and check my IQ - where it turns out I have an IQ of 138. Or 99th percentile on the scale they're using. I feel rather good about that.

It did leave me wondering what the average IQ is like across both LJ and fandom - my friends list seems to be full of people who are pretty smart, and while fandom is chock full of annoyingly difficult people with odd opinions, this is hardly precluded by high intelligence (if anything, the opposite is true).

Does anyone have any pointers as to whether liking is correlated to _anything_ interesting?

(Yes, I know that IQ isn't the same as "intelligence", if there even is such a thing - but it is highly correlated with all sorts of things across that area.)

Comments

[pennski.livejournal.com]

I think people who are fandom are (generalising wildly) people who are like using their minds and are interested in things. Some people focus in very narrowly, others are more interested in finding out new stuff generally. I think both these approaches contribute to intelligence.

If I'm offered a course at work, I'll go "Oh goody! A course!" whereas some people are only interested in learning stuff for which they can see a direct and practical relevance. While this no doubt saves time and effort, think of the accidental joys of knowledge such people miss out on...

...and in other new, the captain of the Trinity Hall University Challenge team looked worryingly like a younger version of you. Has the cloning experiment worked then?