Does the size of your skull have any relation to intelligence?

Question

by the way, I have a huge freaking cranium

Answer 1

Nope, I am a proud owner of a shrunken head and I are very smurt!

Answer 2

Good for you, and Einstein had a smaller than average human brain.

So no, the size of your skull doesn't determine your intelligence, the wrinkles on the cranium do, and more importantly how you use your brain and that includes how you educate it.

For example if Einstein had never been exposed to anything more than basic math; say he was an ancient Egyptian, then he would never have created his famous theories. But, he probably would have expressed his intelligence in some other fashion.

Answer 3

Yes, but you can have a huge brain and still be retard. However in general there is a relation. The bigger the brain, the smarter you are.

As i said this is just a statistical result, there are exceptions.

BTW, everybody out there that sprouts the old "Einstein had a small brain and was bad in math" theory is lying. Einstein had an average brain and was also average in math as a kid.

His mathematical abilities as a physicist were very good but only because he used results from othe people. Ever heard about Riemannian geometry? Lie groups? Differential forms, tensor calculus?

Anyway, he was very creative and knew how to apply abstract math to the description of the physical universe.

Answer 4

I have a large head.

And a high-powered brain.

But there usually isn't much of a correlation. Remember that a lot of your brain isn't actually devoted to "intelligence" (wherever that happens to live), and even your intelligence has some redundancies so that if part of your brain is damaged, you can still sorta get by.

I knew a girl who'd had a hemispherectomy (!) for severe epilepsy, and apart from a few slight speech and physical issues (like a slight limp), she was fine.

Half a brain.

And fine.

Pretty impressive.

But I was watching Miami Ink and they measured Yoji's head and they were like, ha-ha-ha, his head is HUGE!

I was like, ha-ha, that IS huge! Wonder how big mine is?

Same size, as it turns out.

Ha-ha on me.

Answer 5

No. Among humans, not even a little bit. A small child, not yet fully grown can be rated a genius, while many full grown adults are barely functional.

The adults may know more things, but a young genius processes what he knows much better.

Answer 6

I've heard head size does have something to do with intelligence, but the difference isn't much. Unless your head is swollen, then intelligence levels decrease rapidly, especially when paired with arrogance.

Answer 7

Dr. Oz, who is Oprah's doctor, appeared on her show yesterday and said that men's brains are larger than women's brains, but that men use less of theirs.

Answer 8

No, your brain is a muscle, if you don't use it you will lose it. It has nothing to do with size. : )

Answer 9

no

Answer 10

no....