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Why geniuses, old geezers hate noise, loud music

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The amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity. [iStockphoto]

Three types of people are excruciatingly sensitive to noise: geniuses, misophonia victims and old geezers.

Geniuses, according to a 2015 study by scientists at Northwestern University in Illinois, showed that people engaged in higher creative prowess suffer inability to filter out irrelevant sounds.

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