Are You Messy, Do You Stay Up Late, And Love Swearing? Then You Are Probably Highly Intelligent - Here Is Why

Sep 17, 2018

In modern society, people tend to think that people who curse are ignorant or impolite. In one recent study, scientists found that swearing was correlated to having a higher intelligence level. In addition, people who are messy or stay up later at night are more likely to have a high IQ.

Previously, there was a common stereotype that people who cursed had a limited vocabulary. In the recent study, Timothy Jay from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and Kristin Jay from Marist College looked at IQ and cursing. The two psychologists realized that all of the myths and stereotypes about cursing are wrong.

In the study, the pair found that people who use taboo words were more likely to have a high fluency in neutral, mundane words. Basically, people who cursed also had a wider vocabulary of non-curse words. This means that people who have a high vocabulary of curse words probably have a high vocabulary in general.

The psychologists found that a voluminous lexicon of taboo words indicated strong verbal abilities. Previously, people thought that curse words were a sign that the person lacked a strong verbal ability. Apparently, this stereotype is just not true. To use curse words, you have to understand the nuanced situations where they can be used correctly. This requires a higher level of linguistic knowledge.

Another study by psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa resulted in good news for night owls. In the recent study, researchers looked at people who stayed up late and their IQ. They found that people who had a childhood IQ of 75 or less were more likely to go to bed at 11:43 on weeknights when they reached adulthood. People who had an IQ that topped 125 were more likely to head to bed at 12:29.

If you love late nights, then you might be an extremely intelligent individual. While there are intelligent people who go to bed early, the study shows that night owls are more likely to be highly intelligent. The next time your friends tease you about the late nights, tell them that you are just too smart to go to bed early.

Are you a messy person? There is good news in store for you. The University of Minnesota recently conducted a study that looked at messiness and intelligence. They compared people with messy desks to people with organized desks. It turns out that people with messy desks are smarter on average than their organized peers.

Researchers cannot be sure why this happened, but they think that it has something to do with the environment. In a disorderly environment, people feel free to break free from traditions and conventions. This may encourage innovation and insight. Likewise, someone who is already breaking free of tradition might be more inclined to keep a messy desk.

Either way, your messy desk could be a sign that you are highly intelligent.

Thankfully, researchers are finally discovering what we have all intuitively figured out. A clean desk, polite language and an early bedtime do not mean that someone is smarter than anyone else. The recent studies show that you are actually more likely to be intelligent if you stay up late, have a messy desk and swear.

Hopefully, studies like these ones will gradually change the societal stereotypes about cursing and staying up late.

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