Poll: Do you consider yourself to be more intelligent than an average person?

[ace_of_something]

I like to think of myself as average. I honestly don't know. I'm more concerned with being a good person than being a smart person. Not that the two are mutually exclusive, I'm just saying I only have the energy for one and so that's what I'd prefer.

 

[Matronadena]

I entered uni a few years early, spent 11 years there, and finished by the time I was 26...is intelligence based on academic achievement? one use to think so, however levels of what is intelligence go far beyond ones ability to repeat crap out of a book, or thesis research...things like common sense, creativity in problem solving all classify, so my answer is really a non answer...

there are morons out there no doubt, but then again there are areas I can and will destroy an average, or even advanced individual, but there are areas they can destroy me, so is there really a boundary line one can clearly point to and mark as " superior in general " ?

 

[Theon Tonarim]

After looking at the people in my "Honors" English class, and all my "A" level classes? Yes, I do believe I'm smarter than the average person at my school.

 

[ben329]

I agree with dannyboy about the academia thing, the most important thing ive ever learned at uni is that its not necessarily the really intelligent people who do well, it helps but what really counts is working hard. Basically doing well in exams etc doesnt make you intelligent, theyre just a game, you know the rules and if you practice your stuff then you do well

 

[Ramthundar]

Well, I'd like a defenition of Intelligence, please.
Because in my college Psychology class (i'm still in high-school, so you can guess my intelligence) we talked about different levels of intelligence, including of art, music, leading other people, knowing people, and even something called Emotional Intelligence (how well you use your emotions and perceive it in others)
We also talked about the limits of IQ tests, and how to many factors can interfere with them.

I'd say I'm pretty smart with Math and writing, have a 3.9ish GPA, and am good when figuring out people. But other stuff (like common sense) I lack in.

 

[justnotcricket]

*head hits desk* I love how the most popular response at the moment is 'Yes, based on personal experience' - I can hear the steady drip of pure distilled ego tumbling into the lonely flask of 'No-one recognizes my genius'...

Besides, you haven't said what kind of intelligence - I'm assuming you mean academic, but what about emotional? Or any of the other kinds?

I suppose what I'm trying to say is that intelligence is too subjective to quantify. Which is why I can't really say how intelligent I am! Probably about average, really.

 

[cheesecake123]

only on certain subjects
e.g i know a bit about www2 but i am horrendous at maths

 

[ejhio]

Well, every one's will experience different situations and will respond differently
so being smarter is juz your own perspective
me is smarter thru personal experience.

 

[BlueMage]

God no, the world is huge! I know nothing about hinduism compared to a hindu! I wouldn't dare argue with a friend on the intricacies of NASCAR, or another on how to paint. I'm an idiot when in a room of engineers, but a god when a 40K lore discussion comes up. I could never play a mage, and while I swim in a triathlon team i would never try to talk to a sprint-swimmer about lap time.

Intelligence is not just what you know, it's what you don't know. It's context, ability and experience as well as know-how. You may be the best in all of your subjects at high-school, but life has so many lessons to teach that we can never grasp them all. To say you are more intelligent based on your scores in a test displays a saddening lack of intelligence.

You may think yourself smarter than a coal miner, but i have never met a breed of people more stoic and sure of themselves. They don't mess about, they are focused and driven; You may know more about science, math, literature or the arts than 4 of them put together, but they can still make you feel like a fool. You may be smart, but that's a far shot from intelligence.

Am I smart? Not really, but there are one or two fields in which I am confident of my aptitude. Am I intelligent? Sometimes, but i'm intelligent enough to know that the world has very few truly 'stupid' people, and they are never useless despite their niavety or incompetence.

Knowledgable, intelligent - two very different things.

It's entirely possible to be a knowledgable idiot, just as it's entirely possible to be an ignorant genius.

 

[godevit]

Cant say I'm more intelligent then the average Joe

 

[Chibz]

I don't consider myself intelligence by any means. It's just that the average person is unintelligent.

 

[Aramax]

I'm a real smartypants with a IQ of 150. You dont hear of people who time their cooking based on the lenght of movie scenes that are currently playing on tv often.

 

[Elim Garak]

I've had an excellent education compared to an average American. As such I do appear to be more intelligent to them. However, I believe that anyone can achieve the same level if they only apply themselves in academic studies.

Thus I think I am about average.

 

[confernal]

Well it looks like this test shows us just what everybody thinks of them selfs.... As being smarter then others who say they are smarter then them who say they are smarter them who say...

 

[Inarticulate_Underachiever]

I'm going with yes on personal experiences, I seem to be more intelligent than the majority of people where I live but when I hit up the forums and talk to other people I immediately shrink after realizing how average I actually am.

 

[Owned by 3 year olds]

I'm smart by experience,but I'm really lazy.

 

[Samoftherocks]

Without hyperbole, I can say without hesitation, trepidation, or consternation, that I'm smarter than the combined IQ of all of the "average" people that have ever walked the Earth times a million...nyah.

 

[The Dark Fiddler]

In book smarts, yes. However, I'm not so good with "street smarts". Then again, street smarts don't get you into college.

 

[Samoftherocks]

MOREOVER, I, personally and solely, am responsible for the greatest in human advances, as I have already created a time machine and taught ancient homo sapiens the secrets of fire, the wheel, and language. I am the inventor of modern industrial technologies and the internet, I invented the zipper, I wrote "The Republic" (you thought that was Plato, huh?), and am holding off on my cure for all disease advancement until the as yet unborn head of the FDA in the year 2068 is named. I am also Elvis, Gene Roddenbury, and Norman Mailer. I also gave George Washington Carver the idea for peanut butter. You're welcome.

 

[Cowabungaa]

MOREOVER, I, personally and solely, am responsible for the greatest in human advances, as I have already created a time machine and taught ancient homo sapiens the secrets of fire, the wheel, and language. I am the inventor of modern industrial technologies and the internet, I invented the zipper, I wrote "The Republic" (you thought that was Plato, huh?), and am holding off on my cure for all disease advancement until the as yet unborn head of the FDA in the year 2068 is named. I am also Elvis, Gene Roddenbury, and Norman Mailer. I also gave George Washington Carver the idea for peanut butter. You're welcome.

Can I have your babies?

Anyway, I think I'm less intelligent really. I seem to do...well, crap at everything I try.