I have a theory that the more body piercings and/or tattoos a person has, on average, the lower their IQ will be.  I'm pretty confident on this one but need some empirical data to back up my theory.
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So you think because a little number says your not as smart as the next guy that the individual is more likely to be into body art or as you carefully put it "self mutilation". Well you yourself are living proof that IQ's don't measure all aspects of a person. I won't say your not a smart guy, I can even see your reasoning. "If a person has a lower IQ they are less smart than others and are more succeptable to make unwise decisions that involve causing harm to themselves." Does that sound about right? Well despite your high IQ you are still a walking contradiction. You think you are better than a lot of people, am I wrong? If you answer me that question I will gladly tell you why you are a hypocrite and how you contradict yourself.
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Tattoos are crap. The Female body is perfect without the stupid tattoos. Tattoos look dirty and low class.
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Yes, but would any of us know which side we're on? Message boards and emails do not give a valid reflection of intelligence. In fact, there are some grammatical and spelling errors on your question. Does that mean you're stupid? Probably not.\n\nI think the idea is less than intelligent, but segregating by superiority/inferiority has been going on for centuries. Every heard of the Egyptians and the slaves? How about the Nazis? They liked the idea of the tags also, but they used stars...
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I don't think worshiping a male god without the female aspect makes your IQ lower.  But these folks can be off-balance, and they're usually not in tune with the things going on around them.
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Duel with swords, not guns. Honor could still be satisfied, but fewer deaths would result. And the duellers could wear their scars with pride. Beats a tattoo. Get a REAL piercing!
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Interesting, that could be a part of it. I think that people who have these tendencies and are incapable of fitting in or functioning in normal society tend to gravitate toward places like the military or priesthood because it offers them an escape from the rest of the world. They can hide behind collar or camouflage (or clown make up).
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I think you are already too "brainy" for these "emotional" ones when you analyse it like that. The word "heart" is often used in a metaphorical sense. But I agree with your basic question, though you probably did not mean it this way: that so-called "emotional intelligence" (EQ) or social intelligence is some sort of consolation price for those who didn't win big-time in the who-gets-which-brains roulette. Of course, this is all a metaphor as I don't believe that is at all random. They simply didn't *inherit* REAL intelligence (IQ). So they invented "social intelligence", which means they are real good in following the herd. Impressive.
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You could play different music for people and have them write down what they instantly think of when they hear it.  It would give you insight to the brain.  But it would give you insight to people in general as well.  Then you could place all your answers together and analyze it and report your findings.  You'd need to do this on many people, just a few won't tell you much.  This is more psychology than neuroscience, but maybe it would work.
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No.  it totally depends on the individual.  interesting question though.
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yours must be pretty low since you couldn't find\n\nhttp://www.iqtest.com/
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Judging by the spelling and the bigotry I see on yahoo answers, I would say that most of the people who post on here have an IQ way below 100.
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You're referring to mind over matter and/or biofeedback. Anything is possible when it comes to the mind and body. Even science doesn't know our true potential yet. The smartest of humans only ever use approximately 30% of their total brain power. There is so much untapped power in our minds that it will never be assessed in out lifetime.
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I find tolerance from Christians - just as I "tolerate" you putting down those that you admit are like you. I have tattoos and piercings. I know that some people are sooo sheltered that they are shocked to see piercings. It gets people curious sometimes as to - didn't that hurt?!?!?!?! WHY would you hurt yourself... they don't see the purpose. So what? I enjoy the art that I have on my body. I do think that there is some Biblical teaching regarding tatoos and I think that there are some people that have a concern about tattoo'd and pierced people being rude or crude to them in front of their "impressionable" children and they have a right and responsibility to protect innocent children. A few give many others a bad reputation. I was in the military and I knew very few men that were unfaithful to their wives, and yet many military men have a reputation for their infidelity. Is it fair? no. Life sometimes isn't. Even Jesus stopped the religious of His time from harming a "bad example" "law-(especially of their time)-breaking prostitute by challanging the one without sin to cast the first stone when they were not just judging her but going to the truly extreme of going to kill her as punishment. God doesn't judge you by your hair color. God has counted every hair on your head. God will judge your heart. And God will also judge their hearts and perhaps God will find that they have falsely and wrongly shunned you/looked at you disgustingly/maybe even gossiped about you... if you chose to look how you want than accept that you chose to be outside the norm. Are you trying to get shock from them? One thing I've done is go to church on a Saturday night in a tye dye shirt, gottee, and baseball cap and had been working during the day and I've gone Sunday morning wearing a suit and tie and clean shaven. People don't recognize me. Try something similar.... get your hair a natural brown and dress up in a nice dress and then change your hair and wear leather and piercings...whatever you want. Did you (your mind and your soul/emotions change just because your clothing did? no, certainly not. We aren't saved by our outward appearances. One of my all time favorite chapters in the Bible is James 1. The relevent information that he says is at the end of the chapter and in to the second chapter. It basically says that if you favor someone because of the way they are dressed even by offering them the best seat and having the poor man sit on the floor that it is wrong! It goes on to talk about it more so check it out. Be a positive alternative example to people that wouldn't know any better. Perhaps God will you use in powerful ways to soften hearts to help the poor and needy as you say that you are voluntarily doing. At the end of James 1 it says something like that is called a pure religion to look after orphans and widows in their distress AND (emphasis mine) to keep control of your tongue. (Please do not be so quick to judge others yourself either) They will not know how to help you unless you are open and real about what your needs (emotional acceptance) are...God is love and we are to love one another as Christ did for us.
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Yes, most likely. Of course, the chances are even better if the father is also not dumb ;)\nRecent studies have shown that genes play is the major factor determining a person's IQ. Sadly, nurture has little effect on it. If a child is taken from not-so-smart parents and raised in a very intellectual environment among books, taken to museums, he/she will not become much smarter. So in general, smart parents=smart kids.
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imup4unow is right about high IQs and social disorders but schizophrenia tops the list. Also people with high IQs tend to have poor communication skills when it comes to verbalizing their feelings.  Extreme talent often seems to have a price. We see this all the time in artists, musicians, scientists and philosophers. I think failures in life is a harsh term. You need to look at what a persons goals in life are before they are deemed a failure. A truely lazy person may want to do nothing more than lie around all day. If they are truely happy is that failing?
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It is a valid question, and one used against women for years (interestingly, nobody at that time seems to have thought elephants were smarter than men!).  The relationship of the anatomy of the brain to intelligence seems to have only two fairly clear correlations: 1) the amount of surface area folding (sulci and gyri) found on the frontal cortex and 2) the brain weight/body weight ratio.  Under these two correlates, men and women are the same.  There is absolutly no correlation between the size of a person and the intelligence..even though bigger humans tend to have bigger brains.  Now, using the folding and brain to body ratio, we can figure which animals "should" be very smart-and they include ravens, dolphins, and primates.  The raven finding is interesting, because every intelligence test ever given these birds (who have small brains, because they are small animals, but very large brain to body ratios) shows them to be smarter than dogs, and nearly as smart as primates.  Another interesting thing: the only animals that has *both* and larger brain to body ratio than humans *and* increased frontal cortex folding, is the dolphin...makes ya think, huh?
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the more you know the better. Knowledge is power. the IQ test are always needing to be adjusted because every generation is getting smarted. you have to stay on top of technology or you will be Left behind