Were you annoyed as a kid, when your folks instructed you to clean your room, sent you to bed early and scolded you for cursing? There might be a reason for your behaviour.

Studies suggest, that it can be linked to an increase of your IQ.

Clever people sometimes use bad language

You always hear, that individuals who swear have a “restricted vocabulary”. However, in the event that you consider it, the individuals who don’t utilize any swear words are the ones who constrain their own particular vocabulary, because they intentionally use fewer words than others.

Some American academics once decided to carry out an interesting experiment: they asked people to recall as many swear words as they could. The results were surprising: those who could remember the most had the highest IQ ratings out of the whole group. The oratorical abilities of these people were also much higher than those who knew fewer swear words.

Many talented and intelligent people habitually stay up late into the night

Like to stay up late? This also could be a sign for intelligence. Scientific research has linked night owls with higher IQ scores for quite some time now. President Obama, Charles Darwin, Winston Churchill, Keith Richards and Elvis Presley are all popular for nighttime exercises. In the event that you have a tendency to go to rest rather late, you’re certainly following in some admirable people’s footsteps.

A messy desk and intelligence go hand in hand

Research undertaken at the University of Minnesota produced an intriguing conclusion: the chaos on someone’s work desk indicates that they’re not, in fact, simply a messy person, but more importantly that their brain is focused on what really matters. Just think — when we’ve got nothing important to do we often turn to the pettiest and most trivial activities to keep us occupied.