The individual items of the MMPI which differentiated high Q and L groups corroborate previous research studies showing an antipathy toward reading and similar verbal matters, and occupations for quantitatively oriented persons. Male and female high Q scorers appear to be less forward, aggressive, and sure of themselves in social relationships than the student with verbal propensities. Social dominance and leadership may show more than a chance linkage to L-higher-than-Q type of abilities. Those who are gifted verbally tend to be more sophisticated, self-insightful, socially dominant, literary, and less orthodox religiously.