Signs that your intelligence is higher than you think

• Signs that your intelligence is higher than you think

Stupid people tend to overestimate their competence, while smart people tend to behave modestly. As Shakespeare said, "A fool thinks he is clever; intelligent knows that he is a fool. "

This conventional wisdom is reinforced by research at Cornell University, conducted by social psychologists David deining and Justin Kruger. The phenomenon now known as the Dunning-Kruger effect. So, if you are not too sure of his own intelligence, it may be a sign that you're pretty smart.

Here are some subtle signs that you are much smarter than you think.

1. You take music lessons.

Studies show that music helps children develop the mind in several ways. A study in 2011 found that scores on the verbal verification of intelligence among 4-6-year-olds increased after only a month of music lessons. A study conducted in 2004 under the direction of Glenn Schellenberg, showed that 6-year-olds who visited nine months of piano lessons or vocal, got a boost IQ than children who took lessons Drama or not doing.

2. Are you over.

Norwegian epidemiologists used military records for the study of birth order, health status and IQ scores nearly 250,000 18- and 19-year-old, born between 1967 and 1976. The results showed that an average first-born had IQ 103, second child - 99 100 and the third.

3. You are thin.

For the 2006 study, scientists have made about 2200 tests adults for five years, and the results showed that the higher the waist, the lower cognitive ability.

4. Do you have a cat.

A study conducted in 2014, out of 600 students, found that people identified as "dog lovers" were more sociable than those who identified themselves as "cat owner", according to tests that measure personality and intelligence. But guess what? The same cat owner collected more from the test, which measures cognitive ability.

5. You breastfed.

In two studies, researchers examined more than 3,000 children in Britain and New Zealand. Those children who were breastfed scored almost seven points above us on the IQ-test, but only if they had a certain version of a gene FADS2. (This version of the gene was present in approximately equal proportions among the children who were and were not breastfed).

6. Are you left-handed.

Studies have linked to left-handedness "divergent thinking", a form of creativity that allows you to come up with new ideas, at least in men.

7. You are high.

In 2008, the Princeton study conducted among thousands of people, it was found that taller people are gaining more points on the results of IQ tests.

8. You have learned to read early.

In 2012, researchers looked at about 2,000 pairs of identical twins in the UK and found that children who learn to read earlier, tended to gain more points on the cognitive tests.

9. Do you worry a lot.

A growing body of research shows that anxious people are smarter than others.

10. You are funny.

In one study of 400 psychology students conducted intelligence tests that measured the ability of abstract reasoning and verbal intelligence. They were then asked to come up with titles for a few cartoons, and these signatures were reviewed by an independent appraiser. As predicted, the more intelligent the students come up with a funny headlines.

11. You slut.

A study published in "Psychological Science" at the University of Minnesota School of Management Karlsonskoy Kathleen Vokes showed that working in an untidy room really promotes creativity.

12. You do not have sex before graduation.

According to a study from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, high school students with a higher level of intelligence much later lost innocence, than those with medium or lower level of intelligence. The core sample was 12,000 adolescents from the 7th to the 12th grade.

13. Are you a night owl.

In one study, published in the "Official Journal of the International Society for the Study of individual differences", it was found that owls are generally better in terms of intelligence. He came to the conclusion that ethnographic evidence suggests that the "nocturnal activities" were rare in the life of our ancestors. This means that the more intelligent people are more likely to stay up late, because more intelligent people are more likely to "maintain an evolutionarily new values."