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Battle of the Brains

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/intelligence/

Tuesday 17 April 2007, 9pm, BBC Two

Can you think of 100 different uses for a sock? How would you cope with glasses that turn everything upside down? What's your emotional intelligence? Can you create a work of art in ten minutes?

Horizon takes seven people who are some of the highest flyers in their field - a musical prodigy, a quantum physicist, an artist, a dramatist, an RAF fighter pilot, a chess grandmaster and a Wall Street trader. Each is put through a series of tests to discover who is the most intelligent?

The principle way that we measure intelligence, the IQ test, remains popular and convenient. Yet most psychologists agree that it only tells half the story... at most. Where they disagree is how to measure intelligence, for the simple reason that the experts still don't know exactly what it is (more) (less)

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[angela1894]

Their explanation for Nathan's intelligence (despite his lower-than-average grey matter volume) is counter-intuitive and unsatisfactory.

[EGarrett01]

If only everyone thought like you. (uh, maybe)

Seriously though, the insight in this video explains so much. Everyone interested in intelligence should watch it. Why did Einstein, Fischer and others like them never comb their hair and have a mess of a house? Why does the stereotype of the "absent-minded professor" exist?

Because gifted brains are super-adaptable and configures itself super-efficiently. Things that are rote or minor (usually cleaning and grooming) are largely ignored.

[reivilo]

smart is sexxxy... nathan seems to have 2 big heads