Do you consider yourself intelligent?

[drisky]

I got straight honors in high school, and commonly dean's list in college, so I'd say so. Nothing wrong with being stupid tough, it doesn't make you a bad person.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

I'm intelligent enough to get into a good school and, so far, I've been successful in my work towards a chemistry major. I'm no Einstein or Hawking, but I think I've performed good enough for my expectations.

 

[YouBecame]

Without wanting to sound up myself, I'm well educated and also have quite a technical job. I'd say I'm quite intelligent. Not the smartest of people, but I certainly like to think I know my onions!

 

[Branches]

As with a thousand other things, I consider the conversation of intelligence on the internet one of specific skill sets. Forums are great places for some debate, but not all. There are plenty of us here who know more about Warhammer than Bob McDobb knows about Wing Commander. We all have our specific subset skills and knowledge tickers, but for the most part we're just like anyone else.

We know a specific set of things based upon our interests. At times we find it easy and simple to voice our opinion to those who understand the same set of things, other times we have to dumb ourselves down to explain it to others not of the same knowledge.

I don't consider myself intelligent to any sort of degree past what I know. I can't tell you who played 2nd Wide Receiver on the 2003 Detroit Lions team, but I can tell you the name of that guy who used to do that thing in that movie you're talking about.

Yes. That one. It was Harvey Keitel.

 

[The Afrodactyl]

Academically, I would consider myself rather intelligent (as I have written proof that I am to an extent), however; in terms of common sense and whatnot, I would say average, maybe slightly above.

 

[The_Ghost_Ninja]

The quote was entirely optional. You entered the convo, last to speak, oh well.

 

[martin's a madman]

I'm extremely hard on myself and most of the time I question my intelligence or even basic aptitude.
But, I can recognise that with self-depreciation set aside, I can be fairly sure I'm well above average.

 

[ALuckyChance]

I think I'm intelligent. Not a genius, but somewhat above average.

Also:

As with a thousand other things, I consider the conversation of intelligence on the internet one of specific skill sets. Forums are great places for some debate, but not all. There are plenty of us here who know more about Warhammer than Bob McDobb knows about Wing Commander. We all have our specific subset skills and knowledge tickers, but for the most part we're just like anyone else.

We know a specific set of things based upon our interests. At times we find it easy and simple to voice our opinion to those who understand the same set of things, other times we have to dumb ourselves down to explain it to others not of the same knowledge.

I don't consider myself intelligent to any sort of degree past what I know. I can't tell you who played 2nd Wide Receiver on the 2003 Detroit Lions team, but I can tell you the name of that guy who used to do that thing in that movie you're talking about.

Yes. That one. It was Harvey Keitel.

I think you are mistaking Intelligence and Wisdom. As any D&D/dictionary fan could tell you, intelligence is just general reasoning and problem solving skills. Wisdom is the synonym for knowledge.

 

[Spoonius]

I'm both overwhelmingly bright and a bit... dim. Absent-minded, rather. A high INT stat but low WIS, I guess.

Yeah, me too. People often tell me that I'm pretty damn smart, but I sure say and do a lot of dumb things.

Fast processor, low memory. I guess.

 

[Steppin Razor]

I know the basics of most things, a little/lot more depending on the subject, and I have the common sense not to do incredibly stupid things, so I like to think of myself as at least above average intelligence, possibly more. My ability to learn new things and add to my knowledge is hampered by my inherent laziness.

Compared to a lot of the people in the area I grew up in, however, I'm a frigging genius.

 

[Acier]

I don't like saying I am because I hate being pretentious, but getting into one of the top Universities in my country has to mean something

 

[strum4h]

Do I consider myself intelligent? Of course.

Do I consider myself "an intellectual"? Hell no. I'm not a pretentious asshole, for starters.

How does that make you a pretentious asshole. If you try and dazzle people with your intellect to make them like you, then you are a pretentious asshole.

 

[Sovvolf]

I once stuck a knife down a toaster while it was turned on... I hope that answers the question.

 

[NoNameMcgee]

I wish people would stop saying this site is the only place of intelligence on the internet. I have come across the fair share of idiots here and a large portion of the members here are childish arrogant misanthropic teens. There are a lot of genuinely intelligent people too, but this is FAR from the most intelligent site on the internet.

Anyway in answer to your question, I consider myself intelligent in terms of using logic and problem solving and common sense etc... But I am not intellectual. I have never achieved anything academically (hoping to break this soon and pass a course though) but I have never really wanted to for the most part. It's not important to me; what is important to me is making money, and sadly I need qualifications to do that well.