Now experts have revealed that these ten surprising traits that might show people are more intelligent than their peers. Checkout!!
1. YOU ARE LEFT-HANDED
A study earlier this year found a significant link between people’s handedness and their ability to perform arithmetic tasks, but the correlation changes depending on age and gender.
2. YOU ARE MESSY
Visual and mental clutter forces human beings to focus and think more clearly. Famous thinkers and writers such as Albert Einstein and Roald Dahl were notorious for their untidy desks.
3. YOU SWEAR A LOT
A colourful tongue does not mean the talker is lazy or uneducated, the study published in the Language Sciences journal found. Instead, those who are more confident using taboo words are more articulate in other areas.
4. YOU CAN MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH
In a study published in 2010, Dr Greengross and a colleague from the University of Mexico found a good sense of humour is sexually attractive because it reveals intelligence, creativity and other ‘good genes’.
5. YOU STAY UP LATE
Night owls are more intelligent than people who get an early night, according to a study published in 2009. It found that late risers tire less quickly than those who make a point of getting up at the crack of dawn.
6. YOU DIDN’T HAVE SEX IN YOUR TEENAGE YEARS
In research in 2000, Dr Carolyn Tucker Halpern from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, found teens who engaged in sexual activities were less intelligent than their peers.
7. YOU’RE A WORRIER
People who worry a lot tend to be more verbally intelligent, according to a study published last year. ‘The study found that individuals who worried frequently, by thinking about potential future negative events, or who ruminated frequently, by revisiting negative past events over and over again, scored higher.
8. YOU TEND TO BE MODEST
This is called the Dunning-Kruger effect. It describes how less competent people often rate their intelligence higher than it actually is, while more competent people rate theirs lower. That’s why the ignorant people are often overconfident, researchers say.
9. YOU ARE A CAT PERSON
The research revealed that the owners of the two animals tend to have different personalities – with cat lovers being more sensitive and open-minded than dog lovers who are largely energetic.
10. YOU ARE AN OLDER SIBLING
Research in 2007 showed older siblings generally have higher IQ scores than their younger brothers and sisters.
Professor Petter Kristensen, from the National Institute of Occupational Health in Oslo, Norway, led the study.
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