How smart do you think you are?
How smart do you think you are? Give yourself a score out of 10.
5 is about average.
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Look at most people giving themselves an 8. Personally I think my intelligence is for others to judge, but I gave myself a 5. I think I'm smarter in some ways than most people, but I can also be pretty stupid too.
I'm also pretty sure I read somewhere that IQ just determines how efficient a learner you are - anyone can learn, some just have a harder/easier time of it. Might not be true though. You do see some pretty ditzy geniuses, and some pretty cunning folks who are also illiterate, uneducated etc.
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I don't know. If I recall, my IQ score was fairly average.
Spacial intelligence/common sense is not my strong point. If you ask me to help you move a couch or help you build a shed, Godspeed to you. I call the manufacturer about my DVD player, not realizing that it's just not plugged in or else forget that I left my keys in the sugar bowl (because that's where everyone's puts their keys, right?)
But I think I'm quicker in some ways. I can't explain it. It just comes to me.
So in some ways an 11. In others a 2 or a 4.
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I read somewhere about a poll given to a sample group of Americans in which they were asked to rate their intelligence in which most of them rated "Above Average". Statistically speaking, this is not possible.
Personally, I rate myself Average. I don't feel any more intelligent than most people I speak to, so I'm probably center spectrum.
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What type of intelligence are we talking about here? Casting modesty aside for a moment, I know there are ways in which my mind works that (it has become apparent) aren't average.
But there are things other people seem to find easy and which are just beyond me.
The way I look at it is this:-
Say there are ten types of intelligence (each represented by a bucket) and you have a hundred tennis balls to spread between the buckets. Most people will have 8-12 balls in each bucket. For whatever reason, I think I've got 40 balls in one bucket and then I'm a bit short in the others.
If an imbalance of balls is intelligence, so be it, but it's still an imbalance when all said and done.
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True. But maybe you should look at your total amount of balls?
Okay, that sounds just weird...
It's hard to objectively measure intelligence, just like it's hard to objectively measure attractiveness.
Try to answer it this way: if you're making a fallout character that's supposed to resemble you, how much intelligence points do you give it?
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I've never played Fallout but if you give me the number of points I have to spend and the categories I can spend them in, I promise I'll give you my honest answer (with no modesty at all).
Although I would say that this gives a biased account (depending on the categories). For instance, if I've got ten points to spend between "intelligence" and "juggling", I put them all in intelligence because I can't juggle. Regardless of my intelligence, I would always put my points there because my juggling is so atrocious. If it was between "juggling" and "singing", I'd say 7 for singing and 3 for juggling, but that's not saying much about my singing.
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Fallout is a game where you play as a guy in a post-apocalyptic environment. When starting out, you have to give points to the following stats.
Strength
Perception
Endurance
Charisma
Intelligence
Agility
LuckNow, luck isn't actually a skill, unless if you compare it to having a positive mindset. How would you rank your intelligence among these things?
This might seem like a stupid example, but maybe it can help you answer this question.
ps. Go play fallout asap, you're missing out. :D
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I've just a bit of a look at Fallout. I'm bored with the RPGs I do play and Fallout looks pretty interesting. You might just have a convert on your hands. :)
With the seven attributes, it's going to be odd because five of them I'm strong on to the point of it drawing comment. If they'd have included things like speed and double-jointedness, it would have been easier. Okay, with a hundred points to spend, it'd be:
Strength: 18
Perception: 10
Endurance: 21
Charisma: 14
Intelligence: 19
Agility: 16
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In NYC I once heard an interview with a woman who had scored the highest on an IQ test in the USA, 215, I think they said. I fully expected to be devastated by her keen Intellect.I was devastated alright! She didn't sound like she knew enough to come in out of the rain. Go figure!
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[Old Memory]
Mensa is 140+ (the same as genius level)
121+ (is gifted)
I have one of 118, (high end of bright-normal)
coolio75650932 is lying (derrrrr)
The odds of anyone having an IQ higher than 130 on this site is very very low.
The truth is almost everyone falls within the average range. There would be maybe two or three people on IIN with an IQ as high as mine (118).
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[Old Memory]
Oh the joyous irony.
You can't guess a persons IQ based on anything you see or hear from them. IQ is the ability to process information, it is completely internal and as such it is seperate from any beliefs, emotions or personality traits one might outwardly display.
You just became the second person I've seen on IIN who managed to troll themself. The first user being "Hugh*Janus" a few weeks ago.
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It depends on who I'm comparing myself to. Sometimes I feel dumb around my friends. But then when I look at the general public, I feel really smart. Here it is difficult, people constantly surprise me with what they do and do not know. But I try not to compare myself to others, there isn't much point. Considering where I landed in life I would say I'm a bit above average. But only by some standards. To some I probably sound dumb.
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Intelligence, like many words, loses it's depth when it no longer has anything to be compared against. What is it anyway? The ability to see further and more widely?
To someone like Napoleon or Einstein, we'd all be simpletons but to the common man perhaps many of us come off as geniuses. I think it's one of life's cruelties though that the wise can be destroyed by what little they're ignorant of, and the foolish succeed by what little they do know.
But you've never sounded dumb to me. It would be easy to underestimate you. In fact, I should probably take a page out of your book and leave my profile blank but I need to show off a bit :)
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The problem with comparing intelligence is that many people do nothing with the results. Or they have a false sense of what it truly means to be "intelligent" as if that means they are wiser and perhaps better because of the information stored in their brain. I don't care if I am more or less intelligent than someone else. But if someone's taking notes, I want to know why.
And thanks, I'm glad you don't think I sound dumb, but sometimes I say really stupid things. But it helps to be underestimated, the dumb things often go unnoticed.
One of these days I may add text to my profile.
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Intelligence, sometimes, can be just as dangerous a trap as foolishness. I've seen too many brilliant people consumed by life's troubles, and seen every day people excel where they failed.
"Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon"
Arrogance is a problem sure, but I've never seen the appeal in it. Pride is the grave of wisdom. It retards your growth, like what winter does to plants (I didn't do that comparison on purpose). Their knowledge won't be destroyed but they won't make any further progress either.
To err is human. We've all made mistakes. I've made more than enough.
Hmm. I thought about suggesting you put "All hail Valkeer!" as your profile info. But something tells me you wouldn't go for that :)
Good thing I never mentioned it. Phew!
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I do learn.
When I do it, I do it pruposly for the reason to see if I can do it, not because I want people to believe me. I want to see if I can.
Even when I do this, I still learn, they just don't notice that I learn.
I can be wrong, notice I'm wrong, make it seem like I'm right, and then learned the correct answer while being able to make it be seen as the wrong answer.I admit to being wrong far more than I do this.
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Yeah, but it's a real dick move to convince people of stuff that isn't true. If you convince them, that is.
If keep holding onto false arguments, people won't give in because they think you're right. They'll end the discussion because you're being annoying.
You can learn a lot from debating, but you should know when to quit.
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I suppose you're right. From now on I should inform them that they were right after I do it in the future. Thank you for making me realize how unfair it is to convince people wrong facts for my own benefits and not telling them they were right.
There is a difference, what I say is actual rational thinking, they just lack the right response to put my point down to prove their point even more. It isn't as if I just repeat the same things over and over. I make it so they can't explain why they're right by countering all the points they already have.
I agree, that is something I need to learn, but I am too prideful/arrogant to quit a debate I am sure I can win.
I do admit to being wrong when I know I'm wrong, unless I want to further my skill on debating. On IIN I don't do this though, if I'm wrong I will admit to it.
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