: Lol…gold.
: Taller students tend to be more atheletically oriented.
: There aren't many short football or basketball
: players. That's because height and size are important
: in those kinds of physical competitions. Since jocks
: don't tend to concentrate on studies nearly as much as
: other students, they're interest in academics is
: greatly diminished, and so they appear (or act)
: dumber. They may still have good minds though, and may
: be able to think through very complex strategies on
: the field. They have a differently oriented
: intelligence.
: Shorter students probably won't be as physical. They'll
: then apply their intelligence to academics. Most
: people, probably including yourself, consider academic
: scholarship to be a greater indicator of intelligence,
: since it's far more readily apparent. A nerd's always
: gonna look smarter than a jock.
: It's an interesting concept, the brain needing to use
: more of its potential on the body than being allowed
: to think more freely, but it doesn't work for humans.
: The size differential would have to be much greater.
: There are some pretty smart fat kids here and there. They
: have a lot more body for their brain to worry about,
: yet they can be rather academic. That's because they
: concentrate on things more accessible to them, like
: books.
: I know exeptions to every one of these tendencies. It's
: not really necessary to delve further into this since
: it gets weirder and wierder…and doesn't mean anything
: anyway.
I'm only 5 foot 8, and I play football and hockey :)
One of the 5 shortest players on the football team (thats a rough estimate...and it doesnt count freshman).
And yes, it is a weird theory. If you think about it that way, you could say that guys wiht bigger "manhoods" could be dumber, because of the amount of nerves and the sequenstial brain area and so on and so forth.....wow.....heh i say we just forget that theory was ever mentioned :)
