Johann has an IQ of 104 and Avi has an IQ of 115. Johann has a much higher level of both interpersonal and kinesthetic intelligence than Avi. They are both trying to listen to their psychology lecture at the same time that someone is sitting outside the room playing an iPod loudly. You might expect that Johann will:
A) pay better attention to the lecture than Avi
B) pay worse attention to the lecture than Avi
C) divide his attention between the lecture and music better than Avi
D) divide his attention between the lecture and music worse than Avi

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Although Johann has higher levels of interpersonal and kinesthetic intelligence, IQ is not necessarily correlated with the ability to concentrate or filter out distractions. Additionally, it is impossible to predict how a person will react to a distracting stimulus based solely on their intelligence level. Therefore, it is likely that Johann and Avi will be affected similarly by the noise and may both have difficulty paying attention to the lecture.

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