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They're already called 'vertically challenged' - but are short people intellectually challenged too?
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 3, 2014 | Eleanor Harding

Posted on 03/05/2014 6:13:39 AM PST by C19fan

They are already cursed with the rather unflattering label of ‘vertically challenged’. Now experts say short people may also be intellectually challenged too - or at least in comparison to their taller counterparts. A new study has found a link between IQ and height, suggesting that those who are shorter are on average more likely to be less intelligent. Academics identified genes that influence both height and IQ, and said there was a ‘significant genetic correlation’ between the two factors.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: height; helixmakemineadouble; intelligence; science
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To: Pan_Yan

Pan, my southern friend, as an electrician and one who deals with those mentioned packages all the time... it’s real simple.

You take your brand new package, you take your shotgun... now pay real close attention. Lots of trial and error went into this. You need to use #4 buck, anything bigger will damage the product, and less won’t release it from the deathgrip the packaging has on it. You throw the package in the air (in a same direction of course), then you come up with the shotgun and let er rip. Of course this works better if you actually hit the target.

*actual results may vary*


41 posted on 03/05/2014 8:25:24 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: miss marmelstein

“Oh, bs.”

says the short lady :P

*ducks*

Please don’t hurt me, I was under duress!


42 posted on 03/05/2014 8:26:30 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: MomofMarine

I’m reserving judgement until I hear from your husband:)


43 posted on 03/05/2014 8:27:14 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: KosmicKitty

OK. That maybe true , it’s not what I am talking about
If I am a female searching for a mate to give me the best off spring with the greatest chance if survival / I am going to pick the biggest and the smartest
I am talking completely anthropologically


44 posted on 03/05/2014 8:31:05 AM PST by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: Charles Henrickson; svcw; Mechanicos; mikrofon; PJ-Comix

Charles visited the 'Frisco Bay Area and was a Tower of Power here, too.

45 posted on 03/05/2014 9:12:22 AM PST by martin_fierro ( 1 Samuel 16:7)
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To: ComputerGuy

It is one of mine too and I am short too.


46 posted on 03/05/2014 9:16:26 AM PST by Jean2
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To: C19fan
Color me skeptical. If, by "intellectually challenged", one means "doesn't do smart things," then the evidence will be arbitrary and statistical at best. The real problem is that intelligence isn't really a group characteristic, and that "average" intelligence within a population is not all that reliable a predictor of individual behavior within it.

If, by "intellectually challenged", one means "does stupid things", then we have a little more reliable indication of individual behavior, for whatever it's worth. Both short and tall people vote Democrat, for example.

47 posted on 03/05/2014 9:26:54 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: C19fan

Maybe the NBA All-Stars should take over the country


48 posted on 03/05/2014 9:40:40 AM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: slimjim12
Wow you could read his thoughts just by looking at him? You should be a psychic!

Reading body language is far from being psychic. He was squared away, chest out, shoulders held high, looking like cock of the walk then he melted into a slumped mess when he saw me.

49 posted on 03/05/2014 11:52:29 AM PST by eartrumpet
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To: C19fan

I’m only 5’ 16” and I say it’s indubitably true! :-)


50 posted on 03/05/2014 11:03:21 PM PST by TrueKnightGalahad (When you´re racing, it’s life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.)
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To: staytrue

I go along with your take


51 posted on 03/05/2014 11:37:15 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Charles Henrickson; martin_fierro; PJ-Comix

Lutheran Pastors – they’re a tall Order ...


52 posted on 03/06/2014 7:51:12 AM PST by mikrofon (Charles Large & in Charge)
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To: C19fan

This isn’t a study by actual scientists, but mere academics.


53 posted on 03/06/2014 7:58:59 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: real saxophonist

My friend Barry insists it is pronounced “corpse”.


54 posted on 03/06/2014 8:01:19 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: devolve

Does Neanderthal DNA make you stupider? Do you have any links?


55 posted on 03/06/2014 8:02:27 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: eartrumpet

I saw that too. Although, it’s easy to intimidate a toddler.


56 posted on 03/06/2014 8:05:26 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

- GOOGLE Search up the info

- detailed and not done to please anyone

- no “the debate is settled and over” BS like the greedy government grant grabbers calling “dissenters” ignorant jerks

- It is worth a read and keeping up with it - it will make you think and come up with your own good questions


57 posted on 03/06/2014 9:34:52 PM PST by devolve (- Tell Vladimir after my erection I have more FLEXIBILITY -- I need more SPACE - BHO Jr -)
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To: Old North State

...or Napoleon

...or Lawrence of Arabia

...or Toulouse Lautrec? (Oh, wait...)


58 posted on 03/06/2014 9:39:31 PM PST by miserare (2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
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To: martin_fierro

What’s with the turkeys on Charles’s vestments?


59 posted on 03/06/2014 9:41:31 PM PST by miserare (2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
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To: devolve

Which studies and where did you find them? Can you provide links?


60 posted on 03/07/2014 6:01:15 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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