^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].Yureina said: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. >_<
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).jagula_sector said: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.DonMartin said: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.Cederearte said:I'll just leave this here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority#Cognitive_ability
"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.