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Are You Above Average Intelligence?
- Thread starter HeySeuss
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Some of the most ridiculously stupid people I've ever met have degrees or other really high educational qualifications. And I've learned great things from people that have dropped out of school.
Im going to vote no for me. Fuck it.
Im going to vote no for me. Fuck it.
People tell me I'm smart, but I don't compare to many brilliant people I know. I don't think it's really a judgement I could make about myself.
My friends a while back tried to argue that the average high school atheist today is smarter than someone like Newton
They want to know Why do scientists and historians still praise Isaac Newton as an important part of the history of science?
they tried to tell me that he believed bunch of weird stuff, alchemy... believed the world was going to end in 2060, biblical chronology etc. etc.
They want to know Why do scientists and historians still praise Isaac Newton as an important part of the history of science?
they tried to tell me that he believed bunch of weird stuff, alchemy... believed the world was going to end in 2060, biblical chronology etc. etc.
It's true that the average HS student has more knowledge about the world than Newton did. But knowledge doesn't equal intelligence. They're totally separate things.
I am below average but I'm not mad about it anymore, I got here by luck and privilege, I still wonder why I'm not kicked from job though
If there's one thing I've learned from going to college, it's that there's a lot of different kinds of intelligence, and that doing well at school doesn't mean you're smart in other ways.
I got good grades in school and I get high scores on IQ tests, but I'm astoundingly stupid when it comes to fucking common sense in some cases.
"Intelligence" doesn't mean anything.
I got good grades in school and I get high scores on IQ tests, but I'm astoundingly stupid when it comes to fucking common sense in some cases.
"Intelligence" doesn't mean anything.
I agree.
Nobody should judge others based on how they look or speak. The only way to gauge someone is to befriend them for a while.
Then again TV shows and movies don't care and take the "They are what they appear!" route instead, especially with one-off characters. Fast talkers with glasses are smart, slow and deep speakers are dumb, attractive people are always good-hearted folk, that kind of nonsense.
Essentially this. There are tiers of intellect and while I consider myself to be in the top 20% I know for a fact I'll never be in the same stratosphere as the top 3%. Those guys and gals are amazing.
It depends? I'm probably smarter than the average in some areas (at least I hope) while not in others. I don't think it's possible to answer this question that easily.
Y'know, I think I'm going to change my answer to this. I know that there's folks out there dumber than I, but I also know that I'm never going to medically save lives, facilitate interesting chemical reactions, or solve a mathematical mystery.
So I'm intelligent enough to know I'm an NPC.
It depends what you consider smart I guess.
I'm probably smarter than you at some topics and not at others.
I don't think there is one overall measure for intelligence that you can use to find an average, realistically. Outside of IQ which isn't really that either.
I'm probably smarter than you at some topics and not at others.
I don't think there is one overall measure for intelligence that you can use to find an average, realistically. Outside of IQ which isn't really that either.
I would say so, but I didn't have a lot of privilege growing up. So I never reached my full potential.
this picture represents the highest combined IQ to ever be recorded on photography
and I'm higher than that
Believe
makes you wonder why us millennials don't have any geniuses on the level of Newton or Einstein
like why are we so bad at science compared to past generations, why don't we have anything as groundbreaking as the Principia or General Relativity
like why are we so bad at science compared to past generations, why don't we have anything as groundbreaking as the Principia or General Relativity
