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The brains of people with excellent general knowledge are particularly efficiently wired.
[...] The researchers examined the brains of 324 men and women with a special form of magnetic resonance imaging called diffusion tensor imaging. This makes it possible to reconstruct the pathways of nerve fibres and thus gain an insight into the structural network properties of the brain. By means of mathematical algorithms, the researchers assigned an individual value to the brain of each participant, which reflected the efficiency of his or her structural fibre network.
The participants also completed a general knowledge test called the Bochum Knowledge Test, which was developed in Bochum by Dr. Rüdiger Hossiep. It is comprised of over 300 questions from various fields of knowledge such as art and architecture or biology and chemistry. The team led by Erhan Genç finally investigated whether the efficiency of structural networking is associated with the amount of general knowledge stored.
The result: People with a very efficient fibre network had more general knowledge than those with less efficient structural networking.
The Neural Architecture of General Knowledge. European Journal of Personality, 2019; DOI: 10.1002/per.2217
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 01 2019, @01:27PM (2 children)
Your humblebrag hit a nerve with some smooth brained idiot.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 01 2019, @01:44PM (1 child)
Apparently, and it wasn't even meant as a brag. Plenty of people from the plains area of the nation know how to do a hell of a lot of things just because you have to when paying to have X done isn't an option. My breadth of knowledge isn't anything special out there.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Thursday August 01 2019, @03:48PM
I think not looking up how to do something on youtube is becoming a dying artform.
People that amass enough general knowledge to win at trivia and word games without always having to refer to a search engine first are becoming harder to find.
(I've found that in some cases, finding schematics or how-to documentation not in the form of some guy in a shaky video is also hard to find as well...so. +1 to all those people that don't mind learning how something works so they can maybe fix it or improve it later if it's broke...)