Poll: How intelligent do you think you are?

[AngryMongoose]

People tend to emphasize those arbitrary ratings of intelligence in which they score high, thus allowing nearly everyone to feel well above average.

Myself included.

Doin' a BSc Mathematics at an internationally recognized uni (UCL - London's Global Asian University), so I'm willing to say I'm fairly clever. I was in the 28% of people who passed thew induction week test, so I'm gonna say I'm cleverer than two thirds of them

Outside the sciences, however, my competence drops to average, and down to manchild levels for subjects like music and art.

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

Highly, but only in the autistic/aspergers sense.

 

[demoman_chaos]

I am smarter than the average bear.

 

[Agayek]

that kinda hurts to read... Even if your first statement is really true, please try not to appear as a total hypocrite on the internet but do something better with your competence.

It's not so much hypocrisy as admitting I'm human. Like I said in my first post, I can't really say objectively how intelligent I am. As such, my take on it falls under the same heading as my second post.

Essentially, all I was trying to do was a "take what I said with a grain of salt" kind of thing. Obviously, I failed to get that across, but such is life.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Dunno. But you can't make me care.

(also, this thread comes up at least once every few days around here)

 

[Daffy F]

I'm probably slightly above average. I know everyone is saying that, but I suspect the type of people this website attracts will mostly be between average and super-intelligent. I consider myself above average because, while my written skills aren't great my physics knowledge is pretty good for my class, as is my Philosophy knowledge.

 

[Mathonwy]

I'm an idiot! I just happen to think almost everyone else is more idiotic than I.

 

[snowbear]

The great thing is everyone thinks themself to be above average. Who gives a crap what you scored on a standard test. Anyone can have a good or bad day on a test, or cram enough in to be remembered for one day.

Whats funny is when the smart arses who scored A* on everything opens the bonnet of their car and their head explodes, And they come running, crying needing help to fix it.

Id say im average, met some insanely smart people, yet lots of real thickos to.

Then I'd also say common sense outweighs booksmarts anyday.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

I think I'm pretty smart, standardized tests and school grades support that, but I'm not very wise I guess, I make tons of dumb mistakes that seemed like good ideas at the time but always cause a monumental fuck up.

 

[Fajita]

Depends really. I had to work my ass off just to get a C in Spanish and Bio, but I'm on my 4th semester of calc (differential equations) and haven't ever really had too much trouble.

Sure, I've had to work hard, but I've gotten pretty much As or Bs which is better than most.

 

[Broady Brio]

Not very.

If repeating AS-Levels isn't proof of that, I don't know what is.

 

[Crazy]

What I think? More like what I know, and I know quite a bit.

 

[Zirat]

Urgh... wow some smugness is seeping through here. I'll need my gas mask soon.

Anyways, on subject no. I would not say that.

I was mentally screened or whatever a while ago and while my reading comprehension and reasoning skills were commendable, my knowledge retention was below average and the word average was used quite a bit.

Coupled with a low graded mental processing speed it all adds up to about the middle tier on the intelligence ladder.

 

[RaNDM G]

Average I guess. Nice poll, by the way.

 

[ChaoticKraus]

Remember that everybody believes they are either "smart" and "above average". Overestimating yourself is an easy thing to do in this case. Not to mention there's many kinds of intelligence. There was this kid back in school that read math four classes above his own but who could never grab the concept of cause and effect. My mom can't solve a logic puzzle to save her life but has been headhunted several times by schools looking for a new expert in pedagogy.

I have no idea about my own intelligence. I struggle with stuff like math and physics but can read 200 pages in an hour and memorize most of it. But i never managed to memorize grammar, despite that i write fine because i just feel the way the words are supposed to be structured.

It feels very unevenly distributed.

 

[ABLb0y]

At best, Vanille from ff13 (IE: Slightly kooky) at worst, those two cheerleader bimbos from Final Destination 3 (IE: Too dumb to live)

 

[thespyisdead]

i think i am smart enough... my only flaw though, that prevents me from being smarter, is that i am lazy

PS: this is my 100th post!!! yay for me

 

[Britwarlord]

Competent in most fields, most of my grades in school was B, highest was A* in English Lit and C in Math.

So like pretty much every regular human being I have my strengths and weaknesses.

I'd say the ability to harness what raw ability you have and put it to good use is more important than being intelligent in the first place.

 

[Zyxzy]

I'm probably not an idiot.

 

[TransContinental]

The problem is the vague nature of "intelligence." We all have our own handle on it but can anyone directively state the definition of it?