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Introverts Have More Brain Activity?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the looking-only-as-far-as-the-nearest-computer-lab dept.

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

      WHOOOOOOSH

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

    What about perverts?

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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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  9. 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.

  10. 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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