# Honors mathematics student has only 10% of normal brain volume. How can this be true?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 12, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honors-mathematics-student-has-only-10-of-normal-brain-volume-how-can-this-be-true/444989 "2008-04-12T02:49:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honors-mathematics-student-has-only-10-of-normal-brain-volume-how-can-this-be-true/444989/41 "2008-04-14T18:37:33Z")

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[QUOTE=Frylock]  
Hmm…

I wonder what distribution my own intelligence quotient follows. I assume its normal, but who knows? I should check.

-FrL-  
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This conversation would be better informed by multiple intelligences theory or the discussion of large scale brain organization in general. And you should check, it’s good to know.

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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honors-mathematics-student-has-only-10-of-normal-brain-volume-how-can-this-be-true/444989/42 "2008-04-14T19:09:00Z")

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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honors-mathematics-student-has-only-10-of-normal-brain-volume-how-can-this-be-true/444989/43 "2008-04-14T19:09:25Z")

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[QUOTE=alterego]  
This conversation would be better informed by multiple intelligences theory or the discussion of large scale brain organization in general. And you should check, it’s good to know.  
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I know something about both those topics, but I don’t think you understood the point of my comment.

You can’t assign a “distribution” to a single instance. I’m sure this is not news to you, of course–it’s clear you probably misspoke. You’ve probably got a sensible criticism of something in mind, but you haven’t yet succeeded in communicating it. I was trying to illustrate the way in which you’ve failed to do so.

-FrL-

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