Do you think you are more intelligent than the average person?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

[UndertheOcean]

1. I am a fucking genuis

I don't believe in false modesty ..

[hobbit709]

2. I KNOW I am more intelligent

[datasuspect]

3. most people are retarded compared to me

i'm surrounded by dumbasses.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. I don't just think it, I know it, and have the tests to prove it.

Or, to be more precise, I am more intelligent than the average person based on the kind of stuff that the tests that I've taken use to determine one's intelligence level, which tests, as we all know, also leave out a tremendous amount of material that should or could also be used to interpret intelligence.

[LynzM]

9. Nicely put, Rabrrrrrr.

:)

[kick-ass-bob]

28. yeah, me too.

But I can solve differential equations, so that has to mean something :P

[Chemical Bill]

43. Back in school...

when I studied ordinary differential equations, I wondered how ordinary they could be if only a few of us studied them.

Bill

[Fire Walk With Me]

47. Why you gotta diss Cosmo?

Talk to the hand.

[SOteric]

5. I'm as smart as I need to be,

and then a tiny bit smarter. Everything else is relative.

[kentauros]

6. They call me "Mister Know-it-all" here at work

in a nice way :)

[edbermac]

7. Half of the US voted for Bush 2 times.

So I'm at least more intelligent than half of the population. :patriot:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. ..

:thumbsup:

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Ding.

[SacredCow]

11. It sure feels like it....

driving around my town, and seeing all of the "W" stickers... Not too many McCain/Palin stickers, though, interestingly enough...

[A-Schwarzenegger]

12. It depends who the average person is.

[Deep13]

13. It sure seems like it.

I don't feel all that smart because of the staggering amount of stuff I don't know. Still, compared to the average person, it is an unavoidable conclusion.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

14. Yep. Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

from the University of Minnesota in political science. B+ average at Harvard Law. Three years on a journal there. Unfortunately, I'm also DXd Asperger's so I have the emotional and social intelligence/skills of a shit brick.

[Rue]

34. I'm a diagnosed Aspie too.

While I do believe there are different types of intelligence in this world, I definitely know I'm smarter than most people. I think not being able to adapt as fast as other people makes me look a little less smart, though . . .

[KamaAina]

57. "The smartest guy in the room"

unfortunately, due to the barriers we face in a society dominated by neurotypicals, the room is in a small nonprofit very definitely on the wrong side of the tracks. :eyes:

edit: for whatever reason, there are enough of us here (along with parents, etc.) to constitute a (seldom-used) DU Group:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=387

[RebelOne]

15. I am more intelligent than the average person in the state where I live. n/t

[Orrex]

16. I don't understand the question

[The Inquisitive]

19. You should probably pick the third option then

[Orrex]

32. What do you mean?

[LeftyFingerPop]

17. Yes, I am indeed more belligerent than the average person. I just wish I was smarter.

[Guava Jelly]

18. I'm freeper dumb.

I can't read an M&M

[Forkboy]

21. Duh...they're W&W's, moran.

:hide:

[Guava Jelly]

25. Dubya's?

:dunce:

[Forkboy]

29. They won't be his for long.

We're taking all his stuff away next week. :)

[Guava Jelly]

52. I can already see the O's pryed off of the whitehouse keyboards.

:rofl:

[Dogtown]

20. lioness, again no "other"

In this case for savants.

I have a certain (limited) facility with verbiage. Unfortunately, not in any literary way, certainly not in a commercially-viable sense; merely enough to be a talented smart-ass.

Otherwise, I mostly walk into walls.

[Forkboy]

22. I have no idea. Maybe, but it seems a dangerous and self centered assumption.

[TrogL]

23. Which kind of intelligence

I'm an Aspie, which means I flunk at social intelligence. It's a major achievement for me to get through the elevator script.

Otherwise, I'm usually the smartest person in the room. However, given some of the rooms I hang out it, that's not saying much.

What scares me is that "normal" IQ is 100 and it's a logarithmic scale.

[amyrose2712]

24. I must be below average....

I am taking a DU Lounge Poll.:evilgrin: :silly:

[jpgray]

26. Nope.

I try to maintain sort of a Cyril Burt bias in reverse. In other words, I try to keep in mind all the advantages I possess being a straight white male in a first world country, coupled with the fact that most accepted criteria for "intelligence" is biased toward that group in the first place. It's really impossible to come up with an objective "G" or general intelligence, and I'm immediately suspicious of anyone who argues otherwise.

[kwassa]

27. I'm more intelligenter than all everybody.

believe you me.

[Ikonoklast]

30. I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm smart and I want respect!

-Fredo Ikonoklast.

[lightningandsnow]

31. In terms of verbal IQ, apparently.

When I was tested at the age of 7, my verbal IQ came out over the 99th percentile (very superior), but my non-verbal IQ in only in the 69th percentile (average).

My spatial sense is almost non-existent, I can barely read subtext in fiction, and I'm somewhat socially inept, but I'm articulate, have good fact retention, and understand much more than others my age.

So, in some ways yes, in some ways, no.

[martymar64]

33. I have an IQ of 137 on the Stanford Benet scale

I kick ass on Mensa tests but I've never joined.

[MilesColtrane]

61. -10 for spelling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Binet

[martymar64]

66. Touche

Actually I meant the Stanford/ Beignet Scale

Mmmmmm, Doughnuts!!!

:9

[Texasgal]

35. Ofcourse not.

There are many people who have better capabilities than myself.

[Chan790]

36. I disagree with the basis of the question...

it's based on an assumption that all certain knowledge can be quantified and assigned value. That means somebody has to be the impartial and objective arbiter of the value of knowledge. (A premise I can objectively reject even based on the limited knowledge of being aware of what I do not know. Omniscience is necessary to assign value to knowledge.) Otherwise we have to assume that all knowledge equal in value and scope. In that case who am I to say the quantity (because quality is unknowable) of my knowledge is greater than that of others?

An example...I have an IQ (tested) of 174. I'm certain that my coworker Kay would score less highly...but is that a reflection of intelligence or of the questions skewing in my favor? I might read more books and write publishable poetry and have a college degree and be a champion debater but she's a trained diesel mechanic and paramedic; it seems to me that my ability to put words together is by-and-large a lot less useful...even if many people put a higher value upon it. The valuation of knowledge is foolish...literally the undertaking of fools. That leaves only one metric: Do I know more than she does, sum in toto? That's an immodest and unprovable claim.

I voted that I'm of average intelligence knowing that the vast majority of people would concede that I'm more intelligent than they are. Not because they're wrong but because they're not objective and thus can't be right.

All philosophy after Socrates is bullshit, all intellectualism is classism and sophistry. Debating one's intelligence is the ultimate in narcissistic navel-gazing.

[Haole Girl]

37. Nope

Don't need a test for that one! lol

[LanternWaste]

38. I'm just a typical, run-of-the-mill...

I'm just a typical, run-of-the-mill Australopithecus-- and not a very bright one at that.


(This photo was taken Thursday last week when I found out that red and blue make green...)

[flvegan]

39. No. I think my intelligence is average.

In some areas, I'm quite smart. In others, not so much.

[BlueJazz]

40. I've never voted for a Republican in my lfe. I'm Smart AND Caring.

[DarkTirade]

41. If you go by IQ, then yes, I am above average.

However once you factor in my absentmindedness... :)

[Chemical Bill]

42. I think I'm smarter than almost everybody...

Just ask anybody, they'll tell you that I think I'm smarter than them. Occasionally, when I'm right, people get pissed at me.

Bill

[Aristus]

44. The average person in general? Yes. The average person on DU? No.

We have high standards here... B-)

[MrScorpio]

45. I wouldn't assume to be

[u4ic]

46. I'm a fucking genius compared to most in Alberta

:rofl:

[Guava Jelly]

51. You are a genius compared to most americans too.

Actually you are one of the smartest people that I've ever talked to.
And I mean it. :) :hi: :pals:

[u4ic]

56. You live a sheltered life

:P





:hug:

[Guava Jelly]

59. And?

:crazy:
I know a smart person when I hear one. :P :loveya:

[FloridaJudy]

48. According to the Stanford-Binet

I'm smarter than Obama - which proves how worthless an IQ measurement is. He can think rings around me with half his brain tied behind his back. He wrote a paper on case law and chaos theory for crying out loud! I can barely define either.

But compared to the average Republican, I'm freakin' Einstein.

[Lucian]

49. I know I am more intelligent than the average person.

[tjwmason]

50. Yes

I had a long session with an educational psychologist to diagnose my dyslexia which, inter alia, recorded a significantly above average I.Q. when tested from a few different angles.

But I would certainly add in the caveat from Rabrrrrr about elements included and excluded from such testing.

[Jamastiene]

53. Does being a genu-ine Grade A smart ass count?

:P

[billyoc]

54. Top of my GED class in the joint. You hear that McCain? TOP OF THE MOTHERFUCKING CLASS!!

[raccoon]

55. On DU ALL the posters are above average! nt

[BlueStateGirl]

58. yea, but not when I am hanging around DU.

[lady raven]

60. My IQ is much higher than average, but

my memory is terrible and I'm not as educated as I'd like to be.

[JitterbugPerfume]

62. a lot of people claim to be above average

but most aren't.

What is this average you speak of? Sometimes I am the smartest person in the room and sometimes I ain't

[Arger68]

63. I is vary brite!

[1awake]

64. I tested, and tested some more...

I have always received extremely high IQ scores... Then I had children. 3 kids later, I would wager my sanity and intelligence have been reduced by half.. at least.

[last_texas_dem]

65. I think I think about things substantially more than the average person

but am lacking somewhat in the common sense department. I think a lot of that just comes from having led a pretty sheltered life and not being much of a risk-taker; that leads to not learning about a number of things outside of your comfort zone and not being all that great at improvising. I know the things I care about pretty well, but don't even try to fake intelligence in the areas in which I lack it, as I think a lot of people do; it's pretty doubtful I could pull that off, anyway, as I'm apparently very easy to read.

[Duppers]

67. I'm the mother of a damn genius

so I cannot be too dumb. :rofl:

[applegrove]

68. I am smarter in some way, and dumber in some ways.

[Iggo]

69. Yes, but doesn't everyone? (n/t)

[Nikia]

70. I have tested high on all intelligence/standardized school tests

I also have a 4 year degree from a top tier college and continue to educate myself. I think that this makes me above average. I don't know if I always come across that way though.