&gt; Say every child gets their connectome mapped when they start school to get placed in the best type of learning environment for them (auditory, visual etc.).<p>There is no reason whatsoever to do this. Aside from the issue that &#x27;multiple intelligences&#x27; has not held up and has been abandoned, if you want to measure their intelligence, it&#x27;s unlikely that brain scans will anytime in the foreseeable future outperform simply giving a child a 10-minute pencil-and-paper IQ test (and highly unlikely that scans will ever be cheaper or easier than a regular IQ test).