Poll: How smart do you think you are?

[LimitedPunctuation]

You do know that the standard IQ test only goes up to 160? And that I believe only Stephan Fry has that level. With Hawking at about 158.

Stephen Fry is not the smartest person ever, not would he claim to be so. I don't know where you got that from.

I think, and don't quote me on this, that there are two types of IQ test- one that, like you said, goes up to 160 and another that has no upper limit. I think the highest ever was MArilyn vos Savant, who got 225 or something like that.

she got 228 on the childrens one, she however only got 185 on the standardised one, and was eclipsed by Bobby Fischer with 188

 

[C2Ultima]

I wouldn't know. I've observed that most people tend to not understand things that I understand in an instant, but just as many cases of vice versa.

 

[Biodeamon]

I'm above average when it comes to logic (people problems, stuff that requires you to think) and minor technical (monitor display problems, assembly) problems but i'm not too good when it comes to problems with numbers (math, science)

 

[Sleepy Sol]

Never taken an IQ test. Ask any of my friends and they'd probably say I'm pretty smart. I think I'm kind of an idiot myself; I'm only good with booksmarts. I took the ACT in 7th or 8th grade and made a 24 or 25 overall. Took the PSAT this past year and scored higher than 91% of juniors (sophomore last year) so I guess I'm kinda intelligent. Then again there are a lot of idiots in today's world.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

...I think you're going to see a pretty large number of IQs above 120 around here, because as a gaming forum, The Escapist attracts a lot of nerds, who tend to be pretty intelligent.

Or you know because people lie to feel better about themselves.

Average is average for a reason, and 120 is significantly above average.

I suspect you will find people answering as high as, and above the highest documented IQs. Doesn't make it true. Far, far, far from the truth.

Unless they are using some new fangled system to measure intelligence that actually puts the average around 150. That I would buy.

120 is only 5 points out of the "average" range. Average is actually within a standard deviation of 100, meaning a range from 85-115. 120 really isn't all that high of an IQ, and since nerds tend to be smart, I would expect a website populated largely by nerds to have a lot of smart members.

 

[Nuuu]

I voted slightly above average, after taking a school test, i was suprised to see me getting 90th percentile on everything except for writing, and 100 percentile on rhetorical skills (i still dont know what that means). although i have a feeling that i don't know what average is, because out of my whole class, only 1 person got better scores, what really dampers my feelings is that the guy sitting next to me got a 0.7 percentile on something...

I don't vote above average because i know there are PLENTY of people smarter than me out there, (although i don't know truly how good i am because i never study unless it's for spanish)

 

[JochemDude]

I have always been told I was below average, but I do a job now that includes very complicated math, requires a lot of clever and fast thinking. I'm better at logical thinking then literal knowledge.

 

[johnzaku]

How awesome is that? The average poster is above average intellect!

Isn't that pro- wait...

 

[Gamer_152]

Actually humans think they're above average in just about every regard. I can't say I know my IQ or RQ but on the scale here I'd class myself as 'Above Average'. I think my analytical ability is stronger than my knowledge or brute logic though.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

I'm not gonna be modest and try and aim for "average", or whatever the average is here. I know it's brash, but there is a certain confident part of me that shouts "I'm the smartest damn person on the planet!". I don't get straight A's etc, but I am the person who comes out of a Chemistry or Calculus AP test grinning. I revel in things that others find frustrating, and I damn well like it.
Weirdly, I took one math test that was terrible. I hated it, I couldn't answer more than a third of the questions, and looked at my colleagues, thinking "they must be doing waaay better than me. What did I do wrong?" I left that day, feeling defeated by math for the first time in a while.
Two weeks later, the Calculus teacher says he has the winner (it was a competitive test, and the winner gets a name on a plaque in the hallway.). In a WTF moment, he states my name. Two dozen people taking a competitive math test voluntarily, and somehow I beat them. HELL YES.
That's why I put "way above average".

 

[hurfdurp]

I imagine I think I'm smarter than I actually am. People tend to rate themselves above average on everything.

 

[WorldFree55]

We got a lot of cocky people here for sure. But I'm going to say way above average anyway because i can.

 

[TingaWinga]

I'm one of the smartest people alive.

 

[Taham]

Well, I go to a grammar school, which is supposedly in the top 5% of the UK. Due to this I put myself in Slightly Above Average. I must admit, I'm not particularly close to the top of the class in anything.

 

[uzo]

There are *deities* who fail to keep up with me.

 

[DefinitelyPsychotic]

Ha, now I know for a fact that the Escapist is full of narcissistic pseudo-intellectuals.
Not that I needed any proof beforehand though...

 

[Kinokohatake]

I marked average. Back in high school I would have considered myself incredibly intelligent, but that just shows how dumb I was.

 

[Ranorak]

According to the test I did a few years ago, I'm above average.
Too bad I'm extremely lazy and non-caring, or we would have a cure for cancer right now.

 

[Chibz]

I'll be the first to say, I'm not really that intelligent. Not intelligent at all.

But what I lack of raw intelligence I make up for in snarkiness and assholish behaviour. ... Yay. So I'm stupid and doomed to be friendless because I am not nice people.

 

[Tourette]

My IQ at the last scoring a few years ago was 152 which I was quite happy with considering I left school over twenty years ago.
At school I was told I could have a promising career in a lot of fields if I stayed on but I left to join the forces which was my ambition and I have never regretted it as it led me to my current line of work which I love.