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[andrewducker]

Frozzled from yonmei

[Poll #300485]

Comments

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

"Everyone is above average"

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I am deeply amused that both answers 2 and 5 are true for me. All test I have taken place me in the ludicrously intelligent category (testing higher than 99.9% of the population) and more than half of the people I am close to test significantly higher than I do (the number of people I am close to who are in the top 0.0001% of people who take intelligence tests rather surprises me).

[biscuitware.livejournal.com]

post a "how stupid are you?" poll - we can see how the results tally.

I don't know.

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

I used to think I was supergenuis guy.
I don't know if I've gotten stupider, or just gotten some humility. I'm just not so sure anymore.

I think I act smarter than most people; I don't know that I actually AM smarter.

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

I would have caught the roadrunner!

[guyinahat.livejournal.com]

My engine's fine, the dipstick just isn't long enough

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

You can buy pumps to fix that sort of problem, young man ;-)

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

The self-ratings are interesting. I can't personally answer this -- I mean, I could say 'well above average intelligence' but that's surely true for most people you know. The box I'd want to tick is 'I know my skills, and I'm top-notch at some things, but pretty ordinary at others. What's more, I notice as I age that I have come to substitute experience and guile for pure intellect, and this seems to be at least as handy.'

[andrewducker]

Apparently this is standard procedure - as we get older we get less good at 'pure' thinking but make up for it by already knowing the fastest way to get to the answers. Redistribution of limited resources, possibly. Which would explain why people get less flexible as they get older.

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

I was being bad :-)

[andrewducker]

:->

[sneerpout.livejournal.com]

I'm ticking "average". I know that I'm very bright, but I don't have any proof that I'm brighter than anyone else. What I *do* know without question is that I am talented, dedicated and thoughtful and that is more important to me than having a certificate with a large IQ score written on it.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

Certainly above average, but really wishing I wasn't

(this is _not_ because I want to be more stoopid)

[moniqueleigh]

I think I'm somewhere betwixt 1 & 2. I'm not more intelligent than everyone else I know, but certainly more than most that I know. At least locally. *sigh* This is depressing, as it means I've rarely been challenged. Hence that nasty habit of attempting the harder crossword puzzles in ink.

[jerrykaufman.livejournal.com]

I know I'm above average - but not in this group.