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by  N.Morgan Human intelligence is not only calculated by academic achievements, but also through certain body parts. Here are four parts of the human body that can reveal your intelligence level.  Long Legs A  study  by researchers from Brown University and Princeton University suggests that taller people may earn more money than short people because they’re smarter. The authors used government data sets that collected the height, weight, intelligence, educational experience, and salaries of people born in the U.S. or the U.K. in 1958 and 1970 from their birth into adulthood. The results of their thorough analysis showed that the people who were tall as kids performed significantly better on cognitive tests. Plus, taller people tended to work in higher-paying occupations that required greater intelligence and more advanced verbal and numerical skills. Researchers still remain perplexed by the connection between height and intelligence, ...

by  N.Morgan Excessive worry and anxiety may not be such a bad thing after all — a recent study suggests that such anxiety may have evolved in people along with intelligence. The results indicate that among people diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, high IQ scores were associated with high levels of worry. According to Dr. Adam Perkins, an expert in Neurobiology of Personality at King’s College in London: “It occurred to me that if you happen to have a preponderance of negatively hued self-generated thoughts, due to high levels of spontaneous activity in the parts of the medial prefrontal cortex that govern conscious perception of threat and you also have a tendency to switch to panic sooner than average people, due to possessing especially high reactivity in the basolateral nuclei of the amygdala, then that means you can experience intense negative emotions even when there’s no threat present. This could mean that for specific neural reasons, high sco...