Visual skills aren’t connected to your I.Q.

[93Regina]

There is a broad range of differences in people’s ability to visually
recognize objects and faces-and those skills aren’t linked to general
intelligence, a new study suggests.

Just because someone is smart and well-motivated doesn’t mean he or
she can learn the visual skills needed to excel at tasks like matching
fingerprints, interpreting medical X-rays, keeping track of aircraft
on radar displays, or forensic face matching, the study implies.

"People may think they can tell how good they are at identifying
objects visually," says Isabel Gauthier, professor of psychology at
Vanderbilt University, who headed the study. "But it turns out that
they are not very good at evaluating their own skills relative to
others."