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Introverts Have More Brain Activity?

* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us Yahoo News is reporting that introverted individuals tend to have more brain activity in general, specifically in the frontal lobe. From the article: "The attitude that there's something wrong with introverted people is widely shared in society, where fast talk and snap decisions are often valued over listening, deliberation and careful planning. Extroverts seem to rule the world or, at least, the USA, which hasn't elected an introverted president for three decades, since Jimmy Carter."

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  1. Jimmy Carter !?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    He's history's greatest monster !!!

  2. This is a surprise? by Mirkon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Extroverts try to convince everyone how smart they are. Introverts assume everyone already knows it.

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    1. Re:This is a surprise? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I seriously doubt this, at least not for slashdot readers. According to a 15 page intelligence and personality report I paid for, I am smarter than 98 percent of the populous. I expect most slashdot readers(except the Apple users (I would expect them to have much, much lower scores)) to have similar levels of intelligence.

    2. Re:This is a surprise? by eosp · · Score: 5, Funny

      And yet you still can't spell populace right. I'd get a refund.

    3. Re:This is a surprise? by Golias · · Score: 5, Funny

      I seriously doubt this, at least not for slashdot readers. According to a 15 page intelligence and personality report I paid for, I am smarter than 98 percent of the populous.

      If you ever paid hard-earned cash for a "15 page intelligence and personality report" about yourself, you are probably far dumber than most people.

      Well-educated, perhaps, but dumb as a sack of hammers.

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      Information wants to be anthropomorphized.

    4. Re:This is a surprise? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      WHOOOOOOSH

    5. Re:This is a surprise? by Nephilium · · Score: 3, Funny

      So...

      You got an MCSE? :)

      Nephilium

      An armed society is a polite society. -- Monroe-Alpha in Beyond This Horizon

    6. Re:This is a surprise? by martyros · · Score: 2, Funny
      Those with knowledge don't speak; those who speak don't know.

      Too bad, according to himself, the guy who said this didn't know what he was talking about.

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      TCP: Why the Internet is full of SYN.

  3. What about perverts? by dotslashdot · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about perverts?

    1. Re:What about perverts? by Dr.+Evil · · Score: 2, Funny

      So you're saying you want to see my frontal lobe?

    2. Re:What about perverts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      they've got a lot of activity in their "frontal lobes" too

  4. Also seen in the brain scan ... by Mad_Rain · · Score: 4, Funny

    For introverts, there was also lot of activity in the area of the brain that relates to the visual processing and the desire of red staplers... but that's probably just a coincidence. ;)

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    "What do you think?" "I think 'What, do you think?!'"
  5. Groupthink!! by ZachPruckowski · · Score: 5, Funny

    So basically this is a colony of introverts, and we get a story about how great introverts are. What does that do for us in terms of teaching us? It feels like nerds needed to give each other a pat on the back.

    I feel the karma burning, but hey, I got a 4 today, so I can afford a -1.

  6. Re:Well, duh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean "overanalyze." Someone's been watching too much porn...

  7. Irony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    I love this bit from your link:
    Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.
    1. Re:Irony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's not arrogance when it's true.

  8. frontal lobe by Anoraknid+the+Sartor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, so you are saying that recent American Presidents have not had much frontal lobe activity...

    You know, we'd guessed....

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  9. Extraverts [sic] have political problems, too... by dpbsmith · · Score: 2, Funny

    Supposedly George Smathers attacked Claude Pepper by calling him "a known extravert," with a sister who was a "thespian" and a brother who was a "practicing homo sapiens," saying that Pepper "matriculated" in college and "practiced celibacy" before marriage. Pepper lost.

  10. Re:Submitter is a link spammer, does /. care? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a small price to pay for free advertising. Find a story, summarize it in 5 minutes, post to slashdot, and get a pagerank boost that advertisers would pay hundreds (or maybe thousands) for.

    From the point of view of Slashdot, giving a pagerank boost is a small price to pay to get submissions that got at least 5 min of work into them.

  11. Re:USA != The world by flyingsquid · · Score: 4, Funny
    Another case of the assumption that the USA = The World.

    What is this "World" that you speak of? Is "World" one of the Middle States? Like between Kansas and Ohio? I never could remember those.

  12. O.Q. by dimension6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Every time you see a story about a serial killer on TV, what do they do? They bring on the neighbor. And the neighbor says 'Well, he was always very quiet,' and someone in the room says, 'It's the quiet ones you gotta watch.' This sounds to me like a very dangerous assumption. I will bet you anything that while you're watching a quiet one a noisy one will fucking kill you! Suppose you're in a bar and one guy's sitting over on the side reading a book not bothering anybody and another guy's standing up at the front with a machete banging it on the bar saying 'I'LL KILL THE NEXT MOTHERFUCKER THAT COMES IN HERE!!!' " --George Carlin

  13. Proof is in the puding by NoGuffCheck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fast talkers? George v's Tony

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  14. Re:Submitter is a link spammer, does /. care? by Derling+Whirvish · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't. I'm an introvert. I'd never do something so rash as to cold call someone. I'll let you extroverts take care of it.

  15. Re:Strive for diversity, not one or the other... by lebski · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would describe you as Kyle.

  16. In representation of introverts by aled · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have only this to say:

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    "I think this line is mostly filler"
  17. Re:Well, duh... by Jerf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Introverted people tend to seriously overanalize

    Oh, no, I bet Mr. Goatse is quite extroverted.

    He certainly seems to be aggressively interested in sharing his innermost feelings to all and sundry.

    Quite practiced at it, too.

    I would think introverts would tend to avoid analizing at nearly all costs.

  18. Re:As Lewis once opined... by Golias · · Score: 5, Funny

    "All jocks ever think about is sports - all nerds ever think about is sex."

    The difference being that jocks get invited to sports.

    I keed! I keed! I joke-a with yooooooou!

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    Information wants to be anthropomorphized.

  19. Re:Great subject.... by dfjunior · · Score: 5, Funny

    Non-political...BAH!

    Even you know very well that "American Cheese" isn't really cheese. It's mostly oil, and foreign oil at that.

  20. How can you tell an extroverted engineer? by csoto · · Score: 3, Funny

    He's the one staring at YOUR shoes.

    Thank you, I'm here all week. Try the lobster.

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    There exists no way of exchanging information without making judgments. --Bene Gesserit Axiom
  21. How can you tell an extroverted computer geek from by TubeSteak · · Score: 5, Funny
    From Fri Aug 08, '03
    Q: How can you tell an extroverted computer geek from an introverted computer geek?

    A: The introverted computer geek will look at his shoes while he talks to you. The extroverted computer geek will look at your shoes while he talks to you.


    Q: How do you tell if an Extroverted computer geek is Russian?
    A: His shoes look at you while he is talking.

    After 2+ years, it still doesn't get old.

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    o0t!
  22. Re:You do realize... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wait a minute. I saw those photos of Lincoln on Family Guy. He wasn't gay; he had jungle fever.

  23. Re:Two things by caudron · · Score: 4, Funny

    B. The first President Bush was an ISTJ and thus an introvert.

    And here I thought he was EVIL. Oh well, live and learn. (it's a joke...laugh dammit!)

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    -Tom
  24. Perhaps by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 4, Funny

    a site where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the characters of their content.

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  25. Re:Well, duh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >Ever wondered why meeting people is easier when tipsy? It makes your brain shut up.

    And the person you're talking to looks more attractive :)

  26. Re:Well, duh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    You're not introverted, you have schizophrenia.

  27. I thought he was neutral by jellybear · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or maybe lawful neutral.

  28. Re:Strive for diversity, not one or the other... by martinX · · Score: 4, Funny

    and I try to stretch both sides of me.

    I think i've seen that photo.

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    When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
  29. Re:Well, duh... by pherthyl · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what if you find them both energizing?

    Then you are a god amongst men! We worship you, oh double ended personality!

  30. No, he spelled it correctly... by sczimme · · Score: 2, Funny


    And yet you still can't spell populace right. I'd get a refund.

    No, he spelled populous correctly; he used it incorrectly. :-)

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