A study by the Medical University of Vienna found a correlation between enjoying “sick jokes” and higher verbal and non-verbal intelligence, education, good humor, and lower aggression. The study focused on 156 people who watched 12 darkly funny cartoons.
“What do you get when you crossbreed a rabbit and a Rottweiler?” “Just a Rottweiler.” If you found that slightly macabre joke funny, you might also have a high IQ and be a generally nice person. That’s according to a 2017 study published in the journal Cognitive Processing, which found a direct correlation between a person’s appreciation of so-called “sick jokes” and both verbal and non-verbal intelligence. In fact, the study participants who enjoyed black humor the most were also more educated, boasted generally good humor, and had the lowest levels of aggression. They also scored the highest on verbal and non-verbal IQ tests. Conducted by the Medical University of Vienna, the study focused on a group of 156 people with an average age of 33. They were asked to share their feelings after watching 12 darkly funny cartoons by Uli Stein, a well-known German humorist.
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In 2006, a researcher at the University of California at Davis determined that John Quincy Adams was the smartest president in the United States, with an IQ of nearly 169.
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