The results of a study of more than 1,000 of the brightest five per cent of young people will come as relief to parents whose offspring, usually long-haired, are devotees of Iron Maiden, AC/DC and their musical descendants.
Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent "metalheads" are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders.
Stuart Cadwallader, a psychologist at the University of Warwick, has found that socially awkward intelligent kids sometimes listen to heavy metal, which is "a comfort to the bright child." Read more about this breaking discovery here.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but why is it remotely surprising that teenaged geeks like heavy metal? Next, someone will demonstrate that sometimes intelligent, socially awkward kids enjoy playing video games on the internets, or prove a link between being teenaged and being angsty.
X-posted from Sparklebliss.
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