30 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? contestant a high ‘Glr’ score — ‘Ir denoting for long-term retrieval. Carol Vorderman, a UK game show presenter famous for mental arithmetic, would have a good ‘Gq’ score, ‘q for quantitative numerical skills. With all these types of intelligence to choose from it begs the question, “Is there a single master intelligence from which the rest follow?” Political correctness plays a part here. It feels rather elitist to say smart people are good at everything. It is far nicer to think we each have our individual talents and some just have a few more than others. But that’s not what the science tells us. ‘Group Intelligence’ — the overall G score — does appear to be the underlying cause of the other types of intelligence, and smart people do tend to be good all-rounders. However, there is one major flaw in the analysis; the studies only measure the subjects’ ability to pass academic tests, they don't look at our success in real-life, nor our creativity. Lewis Terman began the longest running study of intelligence and its relationship to life success back in the 1920s. It continues to this day. A group of 1500 children with high IQs were selected and tracked throughout their lives. Terman assumed their high IQs would result in them being very successful. They certainly did well, but studies show they did no better than if they had been chosen randomly from the same area (all the children came from around Stanford University). Famously two children, William Shockley and Luis Alvarez, tested too low to be chosen for the study but went on to win Nobel Prizes for Physics in 1956 and 1968, respectively. There are many similar anecdotes: Apparently stupid people go on to great things. Einstein’s teacher famously stated he would never amount to anything and Sir John Gurdon’s school report said he was ‘too stupid’ for science. He went on to discover monoclonal antibodies for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize! Scientists have now devised the