in the field of mathematics, mathematicians have a better short term memory. However this is due the fact that mathematicians are often interested in Maths. Therefore they put effort in remembering mathematical information. However when you tell them something about footbal, then i am sure that i rember more. I nice television program which showed this was Beauty and the nerd. the beauties and nerds were divided in groups which constited out of 1 nerd and 1 beauty. Beauties were nice people without a brain, and Nerds were mathematicians with a low eq. Every show two teams were selected to participate in a knock out test. Beauties had to answer question in the field of exact sciences. And nerds had to answer question in the field of fashion, hollywood and making contact with other people. You would expect that Nerds would score better in test, because they have a higher IQ. However it were often the girls which scored relativley higher. Because mostly both groups did not study, you can say that it were the interest which determined the short term memory and not the brains.

A second problem is what is smart. I believe that Paris Hilton is smarter than the average IB student. Her IQ might be lower, however her business instinct is brilliant. Because she earns money with avery single action. Consequently i believe that a person with a high IQ, but works as a secretary is not very smart. Because she is not able to use her potential.