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See, cranky people are that way just 'cause they are so smart. And as we know, it hurts to be smart. All that brain activity, mental stimulation -- it's hard work!
quote: Are you a forty-something grouch who's first to shout invectives in a slow-moving checkout lane? A youngster who mocks your dad's counsel? A graduate student known for driving your professor crazy with sardonic verbiage?
Take hope: Today, you might be dismissed as a smart-aleck. In your old age, you might be viewed as smarter than average.
I just like the fact that now I have a potential excuse for my crankiness. What long-winded diagnosis name describing crankiness do you suppose will show up in the next edition of the DSM?
*Begin imagined sleep-deprived scenario . . .
"I'm cranky because I'm smarter than your average bat, Officer, therefore I can't help but drive like a bat out of hell, yelling profanities at other drivers who get in my way and swerving in and out of traffic, because don't you know I have superior thinking skills and reflexes. Proof? I'm cranky"
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This is really good news for Cranky Kong! Everything he's been yammering on about has now been scientifically researched.
While I like the fact the my surly nature might be due to above average intelligence, it does not do anything for the sense of loneliness that goes with it. But thank you for sharing this, it actually made my mouth corners curl upwards for a change. Posts: 993 | Registered: Jul 2006
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I'll leave it open as to whether there is some scientific merit to this, but the way it's reported is pure junk. "Disagreeable" is hardly a scientific term. In fact, it's pretty meaningless since what is disagreeable to one person is just peachy with another. The reporter might just as well have said "Old farts I don't like are more likely to keep their smarts than old farts I do like."
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quote:I'll leave it open as to whether there is some scientific merit to this, but the way it's reported is pure junk. "Disagreeable" is hardly a scientific term. In fact, it's pretty meaningless since what is disagreeable to one person is just peachy with another.
"Study participants were administered two tests: One was a personality assessment designed to measure openness to experience, continuousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. The other measures general intellectual ability and specific cognitive abilities. It covers such areas as phonetic awareness, long-term memory retrieval and general intellectual ability."
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