I remember there was a thread on the escapist where people posted their Iq scores and nearly every other post was 140+. it was just daft. A huge amount of people online consider themselves well above average (usually insisting that they tested genius as a child or some story involving mensa) but if only they could actually work, weren't so lazy, easily distracted etc...
I used to do this exact thing but I changed over the last year. last year was my exam year and instead of continuing to dick about, not show up and not work which would give me "above average results" which i could flaunt saying and i didn't even try. It would get me a half decent computer science course somewhere and i would continue to drift along. Instead about the middle of the school year i started working, studying and such, i got top marks in maths, applied maths, physics and history which are widely regarded as some of the most difficult subjects. Overall my results were in the top 1000 of the country at least (56 thousand took the exam)and later this month I'm starting mathematical science at a good uni.
What I'm getting at is people love saying that they're smart but they don't try. It means they can still think of themselves as better than everyone around them and they never have to work for it or get together any proof. I think that many of them are afraid that if they do try they won't turn out to be as smart as they think they are.
