Poll: How intelligent do you consider yourself

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chadachada123

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RadiusXd said:
congratulations

IQ test gave me 99.8th percentile for word reading.
99th for sentence comprehension
99th for math computation
and 99.6th for reading composite

however in another section of the test i get 16th for visual perception and 9th for short-term/visual memory.

FUCK MY ADHD BRAIN
Aha, ADD certainly gave me quite a bit of trouble through high school. On non-school days (days that I don't take Adderall), I can barely type out a thoughtful, lengthy sentence without losing my train of thought partway through.

Without taking some more tests now, I can't rightly say where I'd score for those categories you got, though I'd definitely be willing to try. I only worry that, after taking an essentially two year break in college, my scores would be lower because I'm now far behind the rest of the people my age at my university.
 

chadachada123

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Akytalusia said:
other: i consider my intelligence to be 'insufficient'. where it stands against others is irrelevant.
Fucking smart. I had never thought about it like that before.
 

Jedoro

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Kinda intelligent. All through grade school I was classified as "gifted" and went to special smart kid classes, but I've definitely slacked off in the educational department so I'd say just above average intelligence.
 

Puddleknock

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How intelligent do I consider myself? Great question not something I've really thought about in a while.

I've always thought that I was below average intelligence, but then I'm not sure if that is to do with the company I keep (who indeed are very smart people) or self esteem issues where I don't want to give myself any credit. Confusing the issue is my dyslexia, which could make me seem less intelligent, my inability to spell many simple words or even get the basics of another language make me look like an idiot.

On the other hand I am educated up to master's degree and I've been known to hold my own talking with people who I would deem to be much more intelligent than myself. So not sure where I would be in the poll given, therefore I?ve not voted on the poll as I feel like I can't give a true reflection on my intelligence, which shows a horrible lack of self awareness on my part.

However, a further point would be how important is intelligence? But that is a topic for another day.
 

InfiniteSingularity

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When you consider "average" being "most of the worlds' population", I say holy fucking shit intelligent.

But realistically, i'm kinda intelligent. I'm better than most people at a lot of things but I suck shit at others
 

Archedgar

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I'm starting to notice a pattern , hmm

Anyway I consider myself highly intelligent. I used to think I was average, but then I realized that I consider "the avearge person" completely retarded... I mean good lord, the average person scares me, so I just took that to mean that I'm probably highly intelligent by the standards of most people.
 

Kyle 2175

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Compared to most people I know: Some sort of amazing genius who's apparently omniscient.

Compared to people who are actually intelligent: An idiot who walks into doors.

I actually voted that I'm slightly below average, maybe I'm just being too modest, but I honestly think that compared to people who are actually intelligent and have actually done amazing things for the world I'm basically a drooling moron.
 

Agow95

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I consider myself to be more vastly intelligent than most people who are normally around me, like in school, I do have friends above average intellect, but I am more intelligent than them as well
 

A Free Man

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I don't think of myself as smart, but I do think of most other people as stupid (no offence to everyone else in the world). But seriously I'm not crazily smart but I do alright.

chadachada123 said:
Akytalusia said:
other: i consider my intelligence to be 'insufficient'. where it stands against others is irrelevant.
Fucking smart. I had never thought about it like that before.
Hate to bash an opinion for basically no good reason, but I don't think you can possibly place a value on intelligence unless you compare it to others. Like all things in life it doesn't matter how good you are, it matters how much better or worse you are then others. Since basically all real tests in life are competitions of one sort or another.
 

ilspooner

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I think I am just above average, but I am in all the high level classes for core subjects at my school, so maybe I am a bit smarter than I think I am. I honestly have no idea.
 

Yopaz

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I'm somewhere over the average, decent in some areas of math, terrible at some, I got a wide area of knowledge so I can keep a conversation about subjects where I do not have a particular interest in. I am unable to keep a conversation about classic literature and art, I'm also not in the loop with new music, movies or TV shows.
All in all, above average, but not a genius.
 

otakon17

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I'll say "slightly above average" but most of my friends and my family swear to the tune of "ehh kinda intelligent". Though, I do grasp some things easier than others do, but that's about it really.
 

Nazulu

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Like everyone else, great at some things but most things I'm lacking or ignorant in because I simply have no interest in it. And if your not great in one area, your probably very good in more.

I don't believe in IQ tests because not only do they not cover every subject, but they're completely pointless because everyone is good at something, whether they realise it or not.
 

Agayek

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It all depends on how you define intelligence. I generally score 130-150 on IQ tests, and I'd like to consider myself fairly intelligent, but I, as everyone else, have my strengths and weaknesses.

I am extremely skilled at analyzing, processing, and utilizing large amounts of information, and my mind is capable of following as many as 6 different trains of thought at the exact same time. I'm also quite good at logic, in the algorithmic sense. Present me with a start and end point for a problem, and I will have a viable solution in seconds (usually), and an optimal solution after a little thought.

Unfortunately, that all comes with a cost. I am notoriously bad at retaining information. I am a forgetful ************, and there's no way I can ever improve that. It takes me over a week of regular contact to be able to consistently remember a person's name, and I have an incredibly aggravating tendency to forget either what I'm trying to say or what a person just said to me in the middle of a conversation. My memory for facts is godawful, and any test regarding retention of information almost always goes terribly for me.

Because of the way my mind works, I am quite skilled at remembering and using processes (like math formulas or a set of directions), but pure facts (ie, names, dates, etc) are simply beyond my ability to memorize. Because of that, I'm not really sure how to answer this poll. I like to define intelligence as "ability to interpret and use information", and by that definition I am well into the 95+ percentile. If one were to use the more colloquial definition of "very knowledgeable" though, I'd have to rank myself more in the 60-70th percentile. It all really comes down to what you mean when you say "intelligent".
 

Lady Larunai

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Personally I think the only answer on the poll should have been average. and since most of the posters on here said above average does that not just make above average, average?
 

Gluzzbung

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I'm 15 and when I was 13 I took an IQ test and got 157!

While IQ tests aren't exactly the most accurate measure of intelect it did make me kind of arrogant along with the 12 A/A*s I got in my GCSE exams.

Soo yeah, "fucking holy shit intelligent," is what I went for.