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

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Ugh, I consider myself an average person. I TRY to be an average person, because a lot of the smarter people I know are hopelessly arrogant.









But I use the internet every day, and it's getting hard to not consider myself a genius at this point.
 

TheIr0nMike

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For me its a combination of the first and second answer. My I.Q. is a 134 and I can't believe half the shit people do.
 

Zersy

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I3uster said:
Inverse Skies said:
I study medicine at uni so.... I'm not going to formally answer but you can guess.
c'mon man, I need the answers for that warm fuzzy feeling that I knew I would be right
I can ansewer questions most people around me can't

i have a Philsophical mind

i'm ALWAYS right but it's a curse (it's a curse becuase your right and you know it but you can't prove and no one listens e.g. "you have to turn right to get to his place" other guy says "Why?" i say "i just know" he doesn't listen and we end up at a camping site ,,,thats just ONE example)

i can predict a accruate future

so yep im SMART !!!!

and yet it still doesn't get me good marks nor does it get me any money OR girls
 

Sabbad

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Yes, I would say I'm more intelligent than average, though my confidence in that fact becomes increasingly shaken daily, along with how I define intelligence.

I got moved ahead two years at school in the UK, got straight As and A*s at GCSE, got straight As at A Level and am currently in my first year at a pretty good Uni. This might be evidence for my intelligence were it not for the fact - as others have pointed out - that academic achievement has very little correlation with intelligence.

I'm eloquent, polite, confident and have had a good upbringing. I used to do a lot of public speaking events and achieved Grade 8 at Piano. I don't think these really have a relation to intelligence either.

So I guess the reason I'd say I was intelligent is based on personal experience - conversations I have with people, where it becomes apparent that steps of logic that seem intuitive and straightforward to me require lengthy explanations for other people. That's probably as good a measure of intelligence as I can conjure.

That said, I have very little "common sense", am the polar-opposite of streetwise, and can't really be trusted to manage my own life with anything approaching basic competency. All of which makes me wonder whether I actually am intelligent or not.

For example, someone else in this thread raised the example of customers asking them the prices of items in a store, when the price sticker is clearly marked on the product. I make stupid, idiotic mistakes like that daily. Does that make me unintelligent? Is that a better or worse measure of intelligence than exam grades?

In short, I don't know. But I'm still self-confident (or deluded) enough to be inclined towards optimism. So for that reason, I'd say yes, based upon personal experience I am more intelligent than average.
 

kawligia

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Wow. 82.5% of those polled so far believe that they are above average.

I think I've got news for approximately 32.5% of you. :p

Also, I have serious doubts that more than 20% of you have actually taken the WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale).
 

sicDaniel

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In general, I guess I am an average person. I did the Wechsler Children´s IQ test in fourth grade and the result was above average, and I am a pretty successful student right now, but on the other hand I have poor social intelligence. So it just adds up to me being average at best.
 

Lord George

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Intelligence is different based on perspective anyway, I'm crap at maths and science and only really excel academically in English and psychology. But I'm smart enough to wrap people around my finger. Especially people who think themselves above everyone else, they never take it into there mind you're screwing with them as long as you let them think your leading them along. Arrogance is a fine human trait carried by many.
 

Gooble

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I did Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Geography at A-level, so yeah, I'd consider myself to be a pretty smart person. I'm smart enough to realise that showing off about these things to people you want to like you is a bad idea, and only to bring out my intelligent/showing off side when necessary. I also tend to be pretty good on figuring out real life problems too, so yeah, I'd say I'm super smart.

Not wishing to show off though :D
 

ElephantGuts

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Yes I do. And not in the science/math kind of intelligence, I'm decent at science and actually pretty bad at math. But I consider myself smart when it comes to logical things and things like analyzing history and philosophy and politics and society/anthropology and that sort of stuff.

So yeah, I consider myself an intellectual, and smarter than a lot of the people around me.
 

Sabbad

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kawligia said:
Wow. 82.5% of those polled so far believe that they are above average.

I think I've got news for approximately 32.5% of you. :p
Not necessarily, it could be that those sampled on the Escapist forums really do represent the last beacon on intelligence on the internet.

*checks the latest Zero Punctuation thread*

Yeh, perhaps not...
 

Red Right Hand

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Is the the first post supposed to be ironically spelt incorrectly cause if that is correct then a lot of people have been brilliantly mocked by a mastermind!!!

By the by, I am not more intelligent than the average person and I don't believe anyone on this thread is more intelligent than the average person, but that is based on my definition of average, which grows to include 99% of the worlds population, with 0.5% being above and including such genii as steven hawking, albert einstein, shakespeare, you get the picture.
 

BubbleGumSnareDrum

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Wouldukindly said:
Personal experience...the best one is when you make a intelligent joke and no one laughs...that's half-isolating, half-flattering...
Of course, there's always the possibility that the joke was neither funny nor witty and everyone is just silently making note of how stupid they think you are. :)
 

FinalGamer

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Considering the area I live in is essentially the redneck region of my country, I know I am smarter than the people around here despite having an IQ of 108.
 

HomeAliveIn45

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I think this thread has proved that we're all just a bunch of egotists.
(except for that 1 guy who said he was below average)