Poll: How intelligent do you consider yourself

[owbu]

Im the smartest guy in the world, but Im also smart enough to realize, that Im very good In overestimating myself

 

[newdarkcloud]

Slightly above average. I know I'm smarter than most of my peers, yet I also know that there is much that I do not know and much that I can learn from them.

It's an interesting dichotomy.

 

[TheAceTheOne]

My language skills alone probably place me in the "Fucking holy shit intelligent" category.

When I actually try in school, I get perfect scores on almost everything...

I hope it's not conceited to vote that highly of myself, although I feel like it is.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

What's so bad about admitting you have average, not-special intelligence?

 

[Biosophilogical]

People call me a genius. As for what I think... well I don't really know. It's not something I really like to think about too much because I start feeling pretentious. >_<

^This^ Though they don't call me genius in the "Holy crap, look at your clearly freakish IQ!" way, just in a "You are pretty damn spankin' smart, my good sir" way[footnote]I'm not saying people call you a genius like that, I was just clarifying.[/footnote].

OT: I think I'm pretty smart. Definitely above average, but like with anything, I'm not perfect, and people will be smarter than me in different ways (different areas of expertise, maybe they are better at rational thinking, but I'm better at lateral thinking, for example). And if they aren't smarter than me, they could be better athletically, or socially, or maybe they are more attractive/wealthy/etc.

 

[Stealthygamer]

I have an IQ of 135 or so

But im absolutely shite when you don't give me a list of steps to do

 

[Nicarus]

I'm basically the idiot of the engineering department up at my college, and my senior design advisor isn't afraid to let me know about it.

 

[Insanity72]

I consider myself rather intelligent, but an under achiever in school. I have heaps of knowledge about completely random things, byt when it comes down to stuff i actually need to know, i only know the basics.

 

[Vault101]

I know we all overestimate our intelligence,aslo intelligence is a very hard thing to measure

Id say Im averge, not exactally an acedemic acheiver

 

[crop52]

Lol at the poll results. Typical internets.

 

[Zeraki]

Probably about average, maybe below. People tell me they think I'm very intelligent all the time, but I don't really see it.

 

[ultrachicken]

I don't know how one measures average so I can't answer this. Not to mention that intelligence is multi-faceted.

 

[Shakomaru]

I know a bunch of random stuff, but I'm not smart or experienced in anything

 

[CheeksMcGraw]

I voted "ehh kinda intelligent." I consider myself smart, but not that smart.

 

[Joccaren]

I'm more intelligent than the vast majority of people that I know by far, but that intelligence also lets me see that I am in no way a genius. Until I have some of the smartest minds my age to compare myself to, and an accurate way to compare, I will have no idea how intelligent I am.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Slightly above average. I sometimes tend to think I'm smarter than everyone else... when I'm really not.

 

[PinkiePyro]

above average

heck I know I am I took a IQ test in school (was put in the advanced class) and I'm in the 120- 130 range (forgot the exact number ) so I am not the next Einstein but I am smarter than average

 

[minuialear]

I'll just leave this here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority#Cognitive_ability

Oh, but surely this is not the case here? I mean, we were all child geniouses and are as of now extremely high functioning humans.

"This means that the lower the IQ of an individual, the less capable they are of appreciating and accurately appraising others' IQ. Therefore individuals with a lower IQ are more likely to rate themselves as having a higher IQ than those around them."

People here need to read this. It'd be nice if they could rethink their answers, too.



OP: Personally, I put other, because, as others already have stated, it's kind of hard to define intelligence, or what kind of intelligence youre looking for. But if were talking IQ, I'd say Im about average or below. I did the highest level math in senior high, but it takes me a lot of time, notes, sketches and some discussion with either the teacher or another student to just get an answer, if not the right one. Also, my grades werent amazing either, just average.

Thanks for expressing the entire point I was aiming to show by creating this topic for me. I noticed that many, many times when I read posts on the escapist people talk about their superiority in intellect to all the people around them constantly. So I decided to make a topic to illustrate to people exactly what they're doing constantly.

I'm kind of curious as to what countries these people come from, based on some of the responses given (you know, to see if people from specific countries put a higher value on IQ results, whether people from certain countries are more likely to be arrogant about their intelligence, etc).

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

I R EPIC INTLEEIJUNCE!

I consider myself intelligent enough. My recorded IQ is 132, but then as they say, does that ever really give any idea of intelligence.