Heavy Metal = Dean's List?

In reading an article a few months ago I was surprised to find a link between “heavy metal” and so called gifted children. I say surprised not because I was actually surprised to find a link between the 2 (I had noticed it anecdotally in my friends), but more so because I assumed it was in some way by which I chose my friends and acquaintances. Basically if I chose different people to talk with, that link wouldn’t exist in my mind.
From the age of 13 or so, each time I heard a new heavy guitar riff on the radio or in a friend’s collection, I had to hear more. This is where your friend’s older stepbrother comes in as that revered conduit of “older society” which so drives your young mind. I can say Metallica’s Enter Sandman and White Zombie’s More Human than Human were my first loves in this way. Sure they aren’t shining examples of the complexities of the harder genres of music, but damn those sounds connected me to something in my soul that I never discovered sitting in church next to my mother. Somehow I felt understood through those sawing and screaming guitars, in all their minor key glory. They alone got straight to the core of my anger and fears.
Later on in high school, college, and corporate life I began to see this link every now and again. The directory shares from my college days, and now the office, are a good example. Most of the more technically minded folks (read: programmers) are as into “the hard stuff” as I am. This is not to say there isn’t a fairly nice variety of artists and genres, hell I have Mozart right next to Machine Head.
Anyway, back to the study. These guys point out the gifted child will be more receptive to the hard edges of metal because they understand the complex world around them at an earlier age. The music provides an outlet for the aggression they feel, viewing the hypocrisy and negativity in the adult world. This seems to make perfect sense to me being that these children generally thought of as well mannered, and it seems logical they would have a private outlet for emotion, a method by which these emotions can be expressed without the risk of disrupting their achievements. What self respecting gifted child needs the burden of breaking out in tears during homeroom or involuntarily sucker punching Grandma in an uncontrolled fit of raw emotion?
In the interest of pure scientific analysis I must point out the percentages in these studies really don’t appear staggering. Perhaps the link is more than statistical noise within the study and frankly I’m good with that for now. The link between Scandinavian Death Metal and full-on Einstein genius surely can’t be far away, corpse paint and everything. In the end I’m probably just attempting to justify my Static-X, Chevelle, and Mudvayne listening habits. Maybe I’m just hoping we can accept those bands as we do Radiohead (which I do enjoy at times). Just remember at least metal heads aren’t looking to blatantly advertise their emotions as the emo thing did for its fans. Heavy metal growls, “I’m conflicted about my place in the world”, but emo whines, “I’m conflicted but mostly I need to tell you about the constant pain of living”. I don’t have to spell out which is better for society. (It’s metal)