Own up to your intelligence

[andrewducker]

Nobody can see what you enter into this one:
[Poll #1334352]

Everyone can see what you enter here:
[Poll #1334353]

You'll need to hit submit on both of them.

Comments

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

I'll cheerfully cop to being above average in the general population, but my friends are v. smart people :)

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

This.

[celiaka.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Me too. Lots of PhDs, university professors and so on ...

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

yup

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

My answer, just about verbatim.

-- Steve tends to gravitate to the smart crowd.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Yep, ditto.

[nameandnature]

IAWTC (in the sense that I'd also say my friends are smart people, although I'm sure you really are above average for the population, too).

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Depends how wide you take friends group, but my close friends are smart people, and I like to think I am as smart as they are.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

I have a large IQ, but I was shit at the socialization thing for a long, long time. I'm not sure if I'd have smarter or dumber friends had I not pissed some of them off pre-emptively. The ones around me seem smart.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

heh, you have a choice of
"The people that choose to stick by me are smart and possibly share some of the socialisation issues I have" or
"The people that are smart, cut their losses and run ... it's only the stupid people that hang on"
(vast generalisations!)

I like to think that I'm above average for any particular group I'm in, but at the same time happily acknowledge that there are people smarter/more capable/more talented than I in any given subject or area.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

I was reminded of how IQ ain't everything when I saw a retarded girl care very deeply (and very well!) for her little baby. She was not cripplingly retarded, but she couldn't read or write, from what I'd been told. She would need help all her life. But she was totally in love with her baby, and she provided it with adequate care (with the help of her counselor).

Brains ain't much if there's no heart.

[andrewducker]

That pretty sums things up for me too.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

(x) I have more than one friends group!

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

This!

[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

(I suppose I really mean,

(x) I have different friends groups
(x) ... With different average intelligences
(x) ... And my intelligence lies between at least two of these averages

otherwise I could still tick a box without complaining)

[cdave]

Define friends group. LJ's flist? People I consider in my closest circle of friends? The wider circle of everyone on facebook? Work colleagues?

Different answers to both depending on the set involved.

[matgb]

Better.

Define intelligence.

Book smarts? Probably top 0.5%. Spacial reasoning? Pretty good.

Ability to dismantle a car and put it back together so it works? Bottom 10%. Draw a pretty picture? Tell what colours go well togther for clothes or, say, a website for a client? No clue whatsoever.

I is dead smart at things that are referred to as "intelligence" by a lot of people. But I'm crap at stuff that others are much much better at.

[cdave]

I think a lot of it's down to what you find interesting too.

I've always been fascinated by sciencey type things, and now work in IT.
My sister's interested in music and works in PR.
I think people would point to me as the intelligent one, but I bet my sis would score higher than me on a IQ test.

[matgb]

Aye, my kid sister's dyslexic, undiagnosed at school, but worked her way up to a fairly senior marketing role.

When I graduated as a mature student, I ended up working for her for a bit. I was "the smart one", but she was teh one who held that office together and got the big deals in.

I was good at the number crunching stuff that was sometimes needed, and could fix the computers/update the website, but writing the content or making deals with big clients? Her skill.

I reckon though I'd score much higher tha her on IQ, I still rate her smarts equal to mine,t hey're just not IQ type smarts.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Depends on which group of friends. I tend to be friends with people who are intelligent, though.

[firecrackerkate.livejournal.com]

If we're going by IRL friends - well then, I'm surrounded by morons and I happily tick the "above average" button.

[zz]

i have a very fast processor, but insufficient memory, creativity, or drive...

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I know that I said before that I try to surround myself with people who're slightly smarter than me, but I do also happen to have befriended people who aren't. So I figure it works out about average.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

*boggles* I was rather banking on a stronger Wobegon effect.

[andrewducker]

I was expecting more people to believe things deep down and not admit them...

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

... except to you? I'm not that surprised the results aren't more different.

[vereybowring.livejournal.com]

It all comes down to your own personal image.
While I rate reasonably high on an IQ test (most of the time), I think the fact that I can reasonably cope with many different types of task/situation is on the whole more important to me.
I worked with a street sweeper who had a double 2nd degrees in modern language and business so appearances don't say much these days.

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

I am quite smart. Most of my friends are, too.