Prog Fans: High IQs?

Prog music generally is complex, and often consists of longer compositions that require longer attention spans. The lyrics tend to be sophisticated.

Interviews with my favorites musicians, from Tony Banks to Bill Bruford, from Peter Garbiel to Greg Lake and Chris Squire, reveal them to be bright, eloquent people.

Without being embarrassed by about tooting your own horn, do prog fans generally have above-average intelligence? Is prog perhaps modern music for the intelligentsia?

UPDATE/CLARIFICATION REGARDING THIS THREAD:

1) The question posed by this thread: Do today's prog fans often have above-average intelligence? This thread is not about whether people are 'smart' because they listen to prog.

2) This thread is not elitist. This thread does not say prog is 'smarter' than, for example, rap or nu-metal. And it's ok to say you're bright.

3) It's widely understood that IQ tests have their limitations. However, at present, they remain the most widely accepted tool for the unwieldy task of quantifying intelligence.

^ Good one, Cobb!

But, yes overall, Prog fans do definitely have intelligence, even though we tend not to use it at certain times

stonebeard wrote: anyone have a link where i can find out my IQ????

Why, here's your IQ my good man:

^

Great two posts, Cyggie and Cobb!

Yep I would say that prog music is probably more appreciated by those of an above average IQ

Though looking at some of the postings on this forum, one has to wonder....

I don't know about my IQ, but I tend to be more the intellectial type of person. I study linguistics and literature (spanish and latin) right at this moment, I listen to prog and jazz (and i hate punk) and i like to analyse people and circulmtances. I think things through and through, which sometimes gives me a really bad feeling. this feeling is one of the big disadvantages of 'thinking'.

I don't know if my studies have anything in common with listening to progmusic, but where I life, people that completely differ from me (intellectually) listen to teenage punk rock and dance music for the masses, I guess this a sign on the wall! but I can't tell anything definitive about this matter, It's just how I feel about it.

cheers

thefalafelking

yargh wrote: Indirectly.  As music goes, prog isn't exactly the elite in terms of complexity or technique. If prog fans are geniuses, what are jazz and classical fans... super geniuses?  I think that people who are genuinely interested in music as music, and who come from backgrounds that aren't prejudiced against rock music, will probably like at least some prog.  People who have genuine interests in music as such tend to be (in my experience) of greater than average intelligence. But saying that liking prog means you're smart... I've read enough brain-dead gushing on the internet from Rush and Marillion fanboys to disprove that one many times over.

this is absolutely true!!!

Cygnus X-2 wrote: stonebeard wrote: Cygnus X-2 wrote: stonebeard wrote: anyone have a link where i can find out my IQ???? Why, here's your IQ my good man: You didn't think I expected a neo-prog related post from the likes of you?  Tsk, Tsk... Oh I knew that you would know that I would know to put a neo-prog related post in response to your post about you wanting to know what your IQ was.

Well...I can only answer that with a....

(insert embarassing neil morse "church" phote here)

....erm....I didn't really feel like trudging through 1000 pages of Mariah Carey to find it.

That's the one, Cyggie!

And don't worry. This time, I saved it into a word document so I can bring it up whenever I like!