Science shows that rocket scientists are not smarter than others. Is this true?

Don't be curious about what the Rockets scientists are: we all are the same

This is really not a high -profile field.

Rockets scientist: They are just like the others.

In English, the Xi "It's Not Rocket Science" is usually not difficult and complicated to describe tasks. But is the Rockets scientists really smarter than others?

This is a vital issue. Researchers tried to answer it in a new study that was published in the annual happy Christmas special of the well -known medical magazine BMJ. At the same time, it also applied the analysis to brain surgeons. This study is led by researchers from universities and hospitals from London and Bristol, and the British charity "Brainbook" dedicated to scientific communication and neuroscience.

The researchers at the same time did a test called "British Intellectual Test" on some aerospace engineers and neurosurgeons. There are planning and reasoning, work memory, attention, and emotional treatment in the cognitive fields of this test evaluation.

Researchers compared the test results of 300 aerospace engineers from the United Kingdom and even European countries, as well as the United States and Canada, and 72 neurosurgeons, as well as the scores of 18,257 British public participating in the same test. As part of the GBIT project of the BBC TWO, more than 250,000 British people participated in the test.

Neurosurgeons score higher scores than aerospace engineers on the issue of semantic or vocabulary, while aerospace engineers have higher scores in mental control and attention. In addition, their scores have no other obvious differences.

But how do these claims be established? Compared with the overall situation of ordinary people, neurosurgeons solve the problem faster, but the memory evokes is slow, while the aerospace engineers and ordinary people are not significantly different in this regard.

"When you don't need to solve the problem quickly, saying" this is not a brain surgery "may have no problem, but if you need to quickly perform information memory, this sentence cannot be said." The sponsor is in Research says.

Researchers are not sure what they have found behind these differences. They wrote that there is a possibility that the reason why neurosurologists perform better in terms of vocabulary -related tasks because their usual medical training includes the roots of Latin and Greek. And aerospace engineers are training on attention and thinking control ability, which can explain why they perform better in these tasks.

Researchers have shown that the differences between the test results of these two groups and ordinary people are also difficult to explain. The author wrote that although neurosurgery also needs to solve the problem quickly, the previous research shows that this is not a skill that is easy to teach, but more likely that this field is more attractive. People with abilities. It is still unclear about why the memory of neurosurgeons is slower.

This study is still a bit limited, including its limited geographical range and sample quantity. However, although this research is relatively easy, it has a practical impact on what kind of candidate to enter the field of neurosurgery and aerospace engineering. Due to these contact factors, women, people with low socioeconomic status and non -white people are relatively unlikely to enter the scientific field. In the past, students showed that students are more inclined to treat science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (in English as "STEM") as "masculine" and "smart".

In any case, in general, it is obvious that rocket scientists and brain surgeons are not smarter than other people, so that they will not overdo them as idols. So the question is, who will do this?

The author wrote: "Other professional fields should also be recognized, and in the future work species should set goals to make the most worthy majors that you decide." "

related information

Rockets or jet pusher are a aircraft that uses discharge substances to make reaction force. The speed is fast, which can be used to carry artificial satellites, spacecraft, etc.; Can also be installed with warheads and guidance systems to make missiles. Because the rocket agency was first used for launching arrows, it was called a rocket in Chinese. In addition, the arrows with arrows with combustible substances and ignition are also called rockets, but they are not within the scope of this article.

By: Rebecca SOHN

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