A new study suggests that your shoe size may be a predictor of whether or not you’ll be smart enough to get into Harvard or Yale.
According to researchers at Realaton University in San Francisco, a person’s shoe size may indicate how well they’ll do on standardized tests like the ACT, SAT or Intelligence Quotient Tests. In order to see if shoe size could be linked to increased intelligence, researchers analyzed ACT and SAT results from more than 4,800 students during the 2014 calendar year. Researchers than cross-checked the results with health records that documented participants’ shoe size.
After looking at the data, researchers were surprised to uncover:
- For boys, 91 percent of participants who scored in the top five percent had a shoe size of either 10 or 11. For girls, 75 percent of those in the top five percent wore a size 6 or 6.5.
- On average, boys with a half-shoe size (8.5, 9.5, 10.5 etc.) scored 4 points lower on the ACT and 200 points lower on the SAT compared to boys who had a full-numbered shoe size (9, 10, 11). A similar correlation was not seen in women.
Researchers were so perplexed by the data that they decided to see how the results held up to historical trends. Surprisingly, the results pointed to similar results. Researchers uncovered that 38 of the 44 U.S. Presidents wore a full-numbered shoe size when they were elected into office, and 64 percent of former presidents had a shoe size of either 10 or 11.
“It was amazing to she how these data points were consistent with historical records,” said. Ted Puyaus, M.D. “We uncovered that famous historical figures like George Washington, Leonardo Da Vinci and Martin Luther King Jr. all wore a size 10 or 11.”
To read more about the study, and to take a short IQ test to see how you fall on the foot size spectrum, follow the links.
