Do you consider yourself intelligent?

[Warchiefwill]

Not an intellect as such.

But certainly Ravin' mad

 

[Jimmybobjr]

Yes, i think im smart.

And no, so far i havent seen one inteligent conversation on the escapist.

 

[splitting bullets]

all i know, is that i have the potential to become more intelligent. how intelligent i don't know. for all i know, everyone with a mind in working order has this same potential.

i have no facts to go on and would love to think that i'm some unique genius amidst 7 billion others, but that doesn't seem at all likely with those odds.
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even if i were, what would it matter? there has probably been an even more intelligent man who lived his whole life doing physical labor, who was never told he was intelligent. in fact it doesn't even matter unless i do something with it.

 

[skips]

Not at all. Maybe I will consider myself intelligent in the future, but as of now I have much to learn. I would argue though, that a very small selection of posters here are truly intelligent.

Edit: If we're simply comparing IQ test results, then I'm in the upper level. However, those tests are entirely useless as far as intelligence is concerned.

 

[Browbeat]

I consider myself to be abominably intelligent.

So much so that I put all my points into INT and forgot what WIS really meant to me.

Common sense kicks my ass every time...

 

[Blobpie]

I consider myself about as intelligent as the next person... since i am a teenager...
But trust me when i say i have a hell lot more common sense than most teenagers and some adults

 

[Saulkar]

I do not consider myself smart so much as learned.

 

[DocBalance]

It depends on my mood. Anyone who reads my post history will see major shifts in tone and vocabulary all over the place. I'm borderline MPD.

 

[MK75]

I get straight A's in all my courses with MINIMAL effort at my high school(and I'm starting my final year soon) that cares a decent amount about it's academics, so I believe that I am intelligent, but not of genius intelligence.

However grades do not necessarily mean smarts, or lack of. Since there are different areas of intelligence besides academic (Logical-mathematical):

Kinesthetic (physical movement)
Linguistic (language IE: puns, wordplay, diction, etc)
Musical (dealing with....music)
Interpersonal (how you understand how YOU think, react, etc)
Intrapersonal (how well you deal with and interact others)
Naturalist (how well you understand nature)
Spatial (deals with colors, organization, and art)

So how do I fare with each group?

Logical-mathematical: quite good to excellent
Linguistic: excellent (except for when it comes to spelling and rare grammar mishap)
Musical: defiantly above average but perhaps not quite excellent

Kinesthetic: I'd I assume this one is below average

Interpersonal: excellent in this one
Intrapersonal: about average

Naturalist: if i get lost in a forest i know more then enough to get out, but then again so do (hopefully) any decently smart person so a bit above average

Spatial: I barely scraped by in middle school art, and when I 'organize' it doesn't stay that way for long so.. horrible

So yes I suppose I do believe to be an intelligent person

On a side note despite being young(or at least not being a full fledged adult) I have an uncanny attention span of about 55 minutes. FIFTY FIVE minutes, I tested it while enduring particularity boring classes.

 

[Caligulove]

Yea, I would say that I am pretty intelligent, more so than the average person that is.

Still do a lot of stupid shit, though

 

[Betancore]

Well, compared to other 15 year old, teenaged girls, I would say I have a little more common sense. My talents aren't very useful. I'm smart when it comes to school work, but that doesn't mean much. I can be perceptive, and I'm self-aware, but I'm not intelligent. Maybe 'above average.'

 

[Peteron]

I am somewhere between an idiot and dumb. I was kidding...slightly. I consider myself to be smarter than many in my grade, however, I am as dumb as a rock. Well, ok, maybe not that bad. I am sure 99.9% of you are higher up intellectually than I.

 

[demoman_chaos]

Yes, I am quite brilliant. Despite being a genius, I am a dumbass most of the time.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

I don't consider myself smart, I just consider myself to be rational, which you would think equated to, I don't know, like, neutral level of intelligence, maybe slightly above. Unfortunately for every person like me who actually uses their brain to some extent, there are a million socialite losers who's lives, actions, and opinions literally revolve around whatever is popular at the time. So if we're going strictly by comparison, I would say I am.

I mean, you won't see me invent some new groundbreaking supercomputer anytime soon, but you'll never see me wearing shutter shades either.

 

[Wardnath]

If only lacking somewhat in self-worth and confidence...

...yes, yes I would. Come on guys, either you're smart or you aren't. You ARE in a position to decide that, that's the point of the First World, you think whatever you want. Don't hold back on your opinion just 'cause you're afraid of some hypocrite coming in and labeling you "pretentious".

edit: typo

 

[ultrachicken]

I'm probably above average for my age group, but that's not saying much.

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

Upper 90%
estimated I.Q. of 173

that being said i'm actually pretty lazy and don't really use much of my potential...in other words i know i'm smart but so what?

 

[PurpleSky]

Everybody thinks they're superior.That's a fact.

Except people like me with low self-esteem.

I am barely above avg at least by IQ.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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