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

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Given that your f-list is filled with people who both read and write a great deal, and that doing one or both of these activities is highly correlated with above average IQ scores, I'm hardly surprised that we form a rather skewed sample of IQ scores.