Study Shows That People With Bigger Foreheads Are More Intelligent

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If you've always felt ashamed of having a five-head instead of a forehead, this one's for you!

Previous researchers have suggested that babies who were born with larger heads are more intelligent than other babies, and have a greater chance of becoming educated and living a successful life.

Now, a research by the charity UK Biobank has revealed a direct correlation between brain volume, head circumference and levels of intelligence! To put it simply for the normal forehead-ed folk, it's official, the bigger the head, the brighter the individual!

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UK Biobank monitors over half a million UK residents to determine the link between their genes, their physical and mental health, and the direction their life will take. For this particular study, researchers from the UK, Germany and the US, led by the University of Edinburgh, analysed data from 100,000 Brits between the ages of 37 and 73.

The results of the study were published in the Nature journal, Molecular Psychiatry and concluded that, "Highly significant associations were observed between the cognitive test scores in the UK Biobank sample and many polygenic profile scores, including […] intracranial volume, infant head circumference and childhood cognitive ability."

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Director of the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (CCACE) at Edinburgh University, Professor Ian Deary, told Neuroscience News that cognition might also be influenced by body shape.

"In addition to there being shared genetics influences between cognitive skills and some physical and mental health states, the study also found that cognitive skills share genetic influences with brain size, body shape and educational attainments," he said.

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Participants of the research had been tested in multiple ways, with researchers testing various factors including their verbal and numerical reasoning skills, reaction time, memory and educational attainment.

The study concluded that newborns with a head circumference of 31.75cm to 35.56cm appear to be more intelligent.

*whips out tape measure*

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Know anyone with a five-head? Is the research true?

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