Originally Posted by
FrenchFit
IQ, EQ, SQ; I recall the studies say Emotional Intelligence is a much better predictor of success in life than IQ, and I agree.
The point of the post wasn't show me the size of yours, but I should have known...this is the BF. The only relevancy to biking; I was cleaning some C&V parts when I thinking about the era, how much interest there seemed to be in identifying yourself as different from the norm, where now young people want to be identified as part of the norm...or perhaps those that do are the most visible.
However, I did a lunch with a pysch PhD where we talked about cycling, and it left me with the impression roadies and ultra cyclists would probably test out pretty well on IQ tests, something non-conventional about what they find satisfying perhaps...a desire to balance the hemispheres of their brains maybe. Whatever, that's about as creepy as I go.
Possibly, but there is also evidence that aerobic exercise like cycling can actually increase brain power in both young and old through several different mechanisms. The fact that so many of the cyclists on this forum report high IQs may simply be a matter of self-selection -- or it may support that evidence (or, more likely, both).