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there was a report on tv about people with high IQ. what surprised me was

Posted by marcel (aka marcel) Apr 11 '11, 14:26

they said that highly gifted people used *less* of their brain to solve a problem than 'normal' people.
and that they somehow can activate that rest of the brain when it's really necessary.
i thought the brain may work faster, but it seems it works more efficient.

Considering that the brain uses 25% of the energy, that means that a gifted brain uses less energy.

That means, gifted people should be on a diet because they use less energy. But wouldn't that mean that in an emergency, when the whole brain is activated, that there would not be enough energy?

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Try not to make your posts so exhausting to read next time. -- nm - con_carne Apr 11, 14:29 1
- ok, will do. -- nm - marcel Apr 11, 14:33
the brain uses very few calories. :) -- nm - loosilu Apr 11, 14:27 1
- don't confuse me with facts :-) -- nm - marcel Apr 11, 14:32
"... that they called out Reagen by name" -- nm - Beryllium Apr 11, 14:27 6
- Mine's not *that* high. I usually test in the 130s. -- nm - Reagen Apr 11, 14:28 5
  - meh, higher than me, I'm sure, but I've never really been tested properly. - Beryllium Apr 11, 14:39
  - you need to take one of those Internet IQ tests that everyone scores high on. - loosilu Apr 11, 14:29 3
    - Word. -- nm - Dr.Vermin, 312.5 Apr 11, 14:35
    - You dropped this -- nm - ;) Apr 11, 14:32 1
      - maybe I didn't! - loosilu Apr 11, 14:33

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