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Bigger Brains Make Smarter People Study Says

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hector-hammond-and-the-leader dept.

udderly writes "People with bigger brains are smarter according to a Virginia Commonwealth University industrial and organizational psychologist, Michael A. McDaniel, Ph.D. McDaniel, who is a professor in management at VCU's School of Business. He reviewed 26 previous studies comparing brain size and intelligence and found that brain volume has a strong correlation to intelligence. According to McDaniel, 'for all age and sex groups, it is now very clear that brain volume and intelligence are related.' So, how big of a hat do you wear?"

2 of 426 comments (clear)

  1. Elephantitiasis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    elephantitiasis of the brain sufferers unite!

  2. Re:Old, and false news by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Because it's politically incorrect it can't possibly be true?

    No.

    Because all the old bullshit ideas about men being inherently superior to women, whites inherently superior to blacks, etc., which right-wing airheads like to call "politically incorrect" to make themselves feel like Bold Rebels Against The Liberal System, have been disproven so many times that it is appropriate to be extremely skeptical whenever these ideas crop up again.

    And because, as GP poster points out, the guy's from a business school, which means that he wimped out on real education. B-school is for people who want to call themselves educated without doing any real work.

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    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.