Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
I'll buy it, yes, and yes.
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How smart do you consider yourself? (1 Viewer)
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krista4
Footballguy
Instinctive
Footballguy
Interesting to see how many people equate "knowing things" to "intelligence." They are not the same, though I'm sure there's a correlation.
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MC Gas Money
Footballguy
Ive been trying to explain this for yearsInstinctive said:
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
Quit keeping him up, he has like a real job to do and brilliance to show. Sheesh.
NCCommish
Footballguy
I always was in advanced placement courses. My parents were asked to let me skip grades. My IQ scores are always 135 or better. I have a pretty good foundation in the sciences and the arts. Due to an overactive curiosity I am fairly well read on many subjects. I consider myself well above average.
tommyboy
Footballguy
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
LIKES, LIKES AND MORE LIKES!Doctor Detroit said:GTFO
Arizona Ron
Footballguy
Socially, above average. I've always been considered a "good" writer in school, college and work. Tests are a different thing; if it's problem solving, I'll ace it. If it's remembering a small detail, I don't do so well.
I still remember to this day the only college class I should have failed (professor passed me because he said I was a great participant).
The questions on his tests were all like this:
Who is known as the creator in Hinduism?
1.) Braman
2.) Brahmen
3.) Brama
4.) Bramen
I would get answers wrong because I couldn't remember the spelling. I always thought this was a stupid way to learn things.
I still remember to this day the only college class I should have failed (professor passed me because he said I was a great participant).
The questions on his tests were all like this:
Who is known as the creator in Hinduism?
1.) Braman
2.) Brahmen
3.) Brama
4.) Bramen
I would get answers wrong because I couldn't remember the spelling. I always thought this was a stupid way to learn things.
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(HULK)
(Smash)
Anyone of you guys ever get your emotional IQ tested? I took an EIQ test as part of a leadership class during my MBA. I scored a 121, which was the highest in the class, but that may not mean much since MBAs are a notorious breeding ground for white collar psychopaths.
I don't know how much validity I can put in that result though... 121 would be pretty well above average, and my wife thinks I have the emotional depth of a rock... I didn't cry or even notice dust in the air when I saw UP...
I don't know how much validity I can put in that result though... 121 would be pretty well above average, and my wife thinks I have the emotional depth of a rock... I didn't cry or even notice dust in the air when I saw UP...
(HULK)
(Smash)
I agree. I suck at memorization.
Show me HOW to solve something and I'll solve it forever. Or I'll figure it out myself. Can't solve a general knowledge question like above without knowing the answer already AND how to spell it. Which means its useless for determining intelligence.
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Intelligence, particularly "book smarts" is for guys with little dicks
EAT
I would have punctuated that sentence but I'm too busy plowing college cheerleaders
EAT
I would have punctuated that sentence but I'm too busy plowing college cheerleaders
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Short Corner
Footballguy
This is highly unlikely.tommyboy said:
Zow
Footballguy
Went with the fbg average (well above) -- although I'm sure some super smart starts person is going inevitably explain why the distribution of the results is statistically impossible even though this board is based on a pretty nerdy premise.
Went that way because I'm similar to benders description in that I'm great at nothing, but good at everything.
Went that way because I'm similar to benders description in that I'm great at nothing, but good at everything.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
MCguidance
Footballguy
I'm well educated but not very smart. Voted for above average intelligence but I want to revote. This alone makes me average.
mr roboto
Footballguy
Well I don't really know how else to compare yourself to the population than a test that most people in your peer group take at the same time as you.
Tom Hagen
Footballguy
I thought I was smart until I wandered into a thread where Maurile and Scooby where arguing opposite sides of something.
(HULK)
(Smash)
Those dudes are smart AND highly knowledgeable AND articulate. If I ever disagree with either of them, usually its time to reconsider the issue and give it more thought.
Brony
Footballguy
FUBAR
Footballguy
life choices.
For the most part, I've done well here. And then we got to planning to get pregnant for the fifth time.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
I live in New Jersey. How smart could I be?
Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
Standardized tests and by any measurable metric (IQ, skipping grades), I am gifted, or at least was before I declared war on my brain cells.
Life choices, I am average AT BEST, and even that's likely being kind.
So, I split the difference and went with extremely above average.
(HULK)
(Smash)
If you didn't make gifted life choices you wouldn't have awesome stories.Standardized tests and by any measurable metric (IQ, skipping grades), I am gifted, or at least was before I declared war on my brain cells.
Life choices, I am average AT BEST, and even that's likely being kind.
So, I split the difference and went with extremely above average.
NCCommish
Footballguy
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
PIK95
Footballguy
In school my grades were always terrible, but my test scores were through the roof. I slid by in high school by doing just enough to get by. I graduated with a 1.3 somehow but did really well on the SAT's. I never even took Geometry or had passed Algebra the first time I took the test but I scored high anyway. I did take Geometry before my second try and I got an A in it. I think it was my only A in high school and probably the only reason that I actually graduated. my S.A.T. math jumped well over a hundred points after that second try which shocked my guidance counselor. I got into B.U. and Northeasterns talent development programs because of it but I never did the financial aid so I couldnt go. I then took a year off before going to URI.
I did better at College then in high school but it was a grind. One of my teachers suggested to me to go to the phycologists and get tested. I took that week of testing they offered me and they came back and said I had A.D.D. and some other learning disability. They mentioned something about six different types of intelligence and how I scored tops in four but was average in one and really bad in the last one. It was pretty interesting and they helped me come up with ways to overcome my weaknesses. So I guess I am gifted AND ######ed, lol. Anyone who knows me would probably agree with that assessment.
I did better at College then in high school but it was a grind. One of my teachers suggested to me to go to the phycologists and get tested. I took that week of testing they offered me and they came back and said I had A.D.D. and some other learning disability. They mentioned something about six different types of intelligence and how I scored tops in four but was average in one and really bad in the last one. It was pretty interesting and they helped me come up with ways to overcome my weaknesses. So I guess I am gifted AND ######ed, lol. Anyone who knows me would probably agree with that assessment.
Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
I suppose that's true. If you're measuring intelligence as it pertains to life choices based on success and financial stability, I'm barely average. I'm definitely an underachiever, always have been. However, being successful has just never really been all that important to me. To me, the meaning of life is best summed up by Viv Savage in "Spinal Tap" - "Have a good time..... ALL the time. that's my philosophy, Marty." I couldn't put it any more succinctly. I'm always chasing the high, the thrill, the laugh, the funny anecdote; not the promotion or the big house or the cool car. I was born that way and I'll die that way.If you didn't make gifted life choices you wouldn't have awesome stories.Standardized tests and by any measurable metric (IQ, skipping grades), I am gifted, or at least was before I declared war on my brain cells.
Life choices, I am average AT BEST, and even that's likely being kind.
So, I split the difference and went with extremely above average.
Koya
Footballguy
Could always go down the "what defines smart" route. And as to brilliance, I am not sure that is really the same thing as smart. My father for example is smart, but hardly a genius - but he played 50 years as the bass clarinetist in the baltimore symphony as was acclaimed as one of the best at his craft for two generations. That's pretty brilliant. I am probably "smarter" for what thats worth (not much).
In terms of metrics, I know what my IQ is/was (was very much the same from testing throughout grade and high school and a couple more recent tests that I just doodled online, real ones, and very close to the same). I also got about 100 points higher in math than english on the SATs - yet my whole career and basis for my professional success are my communication skills (and I've forgotten most of the math).
What does that say? I'm one of the better communicators I know and have a specialty in public speaking not to mention a lot of writing, but my "test" would show me as merely above average.
In terms of metrics, I know what my IQ is/was (was very much the same from testing throughout grade and high school and a couple more recent tests that I just doodled online, real ones, and very close to the same). I also got about 100 points higher in math than english on the SATs - yet my whole career and basis for my professional success are my communication skills (and I've forgotten most of the math).
What does that say? I'm one of the better communicators I know and have a specialty in public speaking not to mention a lot of writing, but my "test" would show me as merely above average.
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
Life choices trump test scores.
I have two neighbors I consider among my best friends. We're all in our 50s and two of us are retired early. One is a retired rocket scientist, spent his career working as a civil servant for the DoD, was a key member of the team that developed our most advanced drone technology, has a Phd in physics. Great sense of humor, sober for ten years, divorced from a bipolar nightmare, living with a gal ten years younger than him. He does have some awesome stories. The other never graduated HS. Has an embarrassing grasp of the English language, has been a truck driver since he was 17, might have been sober for ten hours, and is married with 4 kids.
Of course the former is more intelligent than the latter. But I'm not so sure who is smarter. No, that's wrong. I am sure the trucker is smarter. Trucker bought the company he drove for, expanded, got rich, and more importantly he's happy all the time, livin' his dream, still driving five days a week. The big brain rocket scientist is usually stressed over something including money, and he's kind of angry and lonely with many regrets. I could go on comparing these two but why.
I answered average for myself. 15 years ago, I would have answered higher because was dumber then, and a little ironically, I've made way way better life choices in the past ten years than back when I thought I was smarter than most.
I have two neighbors I consider among my best friends. We're all in our 50s and two of us are retired early. One is a retired rocket scientist, spent his career working as a civil servant for the DoD, was a key member of the team that developed our most advanced drone technology, has a Phd in physics. Great sense of humor, sober for ten years, divorced from a bipolar nightmare, living with a gal ten years younger than him. He does have some awesome stories. The other never graduated HS. Has an embarrassing grasp of the English language, has been a truck driver since he was 17, might have been sober for ten hours, and is married with 4 kids.
Of course the former is more intelligent than the latter. But I'm not so sure who is smarter. No, that's wrong. I am sure the trucker is smarter. Trucker bought the company he drove for, expanded, got rich, and more importantly he's happy all the time, livin' his dream, still driving five days a week. The big brain rocket scientist is usually stressed over something including money, and he's kind of angry and lonely with many regrets. I could go on comparing these two but why.
I answered average for myself. 15 years ago, I would have answered higher because was dumber then, and a little ironically, I've made way way better life choices in the past ten years than back when I thought I was smarter than most.
Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
Same here. I got 720V 800M and 85% of my job is corresponding with clients through e-mail, so I lean on my writing all day, every day. Almost never use math any more. Even here, no one here knows me as the math nerd, they know me as the guy who writes funny stories. And frankly, these days, I probably am far better with a keyboard than I am with a protractor, but that's absolutely NOT who I once was.
Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
And in the end it is memories which make us rich. You are like George Bailey, the richest man in town, except you would have found a way to do Mary and Violet at the same time.I suppose that's true. If you're measuring intelligence as it pertains to life choices based on success and financial stability, I'm barely average. I'm definitely an underachiever, always have been. However, being successful has just never really been all that important to me. To me, the meaning of life is best summed up by Viv Savage in "Spinal Tap" - "Have a good time..... ALL the time. that's my philosophy, Marty." I couldn't put it any more succinctly. I'm always chasing the high, the thrill, the laugh, the funny anecdote; not the promotion or the big house or the cool car. I was born that way and I'll die that way.If you didn't make gifted life choices you wouldn't have awesome stories.Standardized tests and by any measurable metric (IQ, skipping grades), I am gifted, or at least was before I declared war on my brain cells.
Life choices, I am average AT BEST, and even that's likely being kind.
So, I split the difference and went with extremely above average.
