Ridiculous thread.
This thread is amusing. Nephorm as usual your posts put people in their place. Nice.
intelligent, with an “i” not an “e”… 
Sorry…my 2 cents
Once I worked in a foundry, they used chipped dry ice to clean some of the machinery. Being a foundry it was really freaking hot. So being creative, I took a chunk of dry ice and put it in my thermos full of fruit punch.
When the dry ice had ablated away and the fruit punch stopped bubbling I started sipping it. No less than 10 people immedaitely freaked out and I nearly got fired for “drinking carbon monoxide” My supervisor yelled at me across the top of his dr pepper can. The irony was lost on him.
intelligence insmelligence…
Intelligence doesnt mean as much as you think it does. Whats important is how you live your life. There are alot of incredibly bright guys who could get a high score on a IQ test but can’t do anything else.
Your view of how intelligent you are will change when you fall on your face a few more times. I bet your only estimating your intelligence in the areas you do well in…
OP,
That you cannot relate to others is new for you but it’ll get old fast. Generally one is lucky to find a few friends at any period in his/her life. Dont’s stress about it, and never again (even on a message board) talk about “how smart” you are.
my 2 cents.
I don’t know if I could blame my intelligence for my social problems. I’m pretty sure that was just a chemical imbalance. I still find it very hard to communicate with the average person, but I’m working on it.
Small talk doesn’t really cut it for me…and when I don’t say anything, people notice and comment on it. I’ve been accused of being very quiet, but if I have an intelligent audience I won’t shut up. I guess at some point I got sick of the glazed eyes, so I stopped speaking. =/ Superiority is lonely. It’s like being in a big house with all the toys but no one to share them with.
I guess what it amounts to is that some of us are too self-aware for our own good.
[quote]wfifer wrote:
social problems
chemical imbalance
hard to communicate
Superiority is lonely
I guess what it amounts to is that some of us are too self-aware for our own good. [/quote]
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeah. You’re way too self-aware. That’s it.
[quote]KombatAthlete wrote:
I hate to potentially sound like the cockiest person alive, but this is an Internet forum after-all.
Does anyone else feel like their unusually high intelligence makes them removed from society, in the sense that you feel separated from just about everyone else you know?
I have noticed this more and more about myself the older I grow (I’m in high school), and although it’s not a bad problem to have, it is a little troubling emotionally. It’s like I’m just not on the same playing field as everyone else. Keep in mind that I have a normal social life and am atheltic so I don’t feel removed simply due to being wierd.
Can anybody else share any insight they might have about this, either from their own experience or someone you knew?[/quote]
Can I? You bet I can. What you’ve described is basically my life. I’ve often come to the conclusion that communication is impossible.
One thing, though: I don’t really believe in the concept of human intelligence. I think it’s something else.
Human language is really not a method of communication. It is just a species ritual. The way I like to approach the world is to evaluate everyone and everything according to it’s percieved utility; in other words, treat everyone as a tool.
And it’s true that nature creates stupid people for a reason. When you understand “natural economics” also known as Darwinism you can really apply yourself properly and stop trying to fight against nature, instead work with it.
There is some serious self-denial going on is this thread.
[quote]BarneyFife wrote:
I before E, except after c.[/quote]
Weird rule. Inefficient too.
[quote]CaliforniaLaw wrote:
Ponder this: 50% of people have an IQ of 100 or less.[/quote]
100 is the average, not the median.
Take six people, with IQs of: 140, 120, 90, 90, 80 80. The average IQ is 100, but 4 of them are below 100 while only two are above. In this example, 66% of the people are below average.
[quote]pookie wrote:
Take six people, with IQs of: 140, 120, 90, 90, 80 80. The average IQ is 100, but 4 of them are below 100 while only two are above. In this example, 66% of the people are below average.
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IQ is distributed along a normal curve, with 100 being in the middle… 50% of the area of the curve is to the left, 50% should be to the right. In the real world there will be some variation to that.
68% of the area of the curve should be within one standard deviation of the mean, which means that 68% of the population should have an IQ between 84 and 116.
[quote]Nominal Prospect wrote:
in other words, treat everyone as a tool.
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Don’t worry, we definitely treat you as a tool.
Just kidding, sort of.
Since I know I’m dumb as a stump, instead of giving advice I’ll just leave a few quotes:
“Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens”
-Jimi Hendrix
“Intelligence doesn’t make you exempt from being an idiot.”
-Me
Wow.
When I was younger, my school had a rule that if any IQ testing was done, the child couldn’t see it until he was eighteen unless his parents went through hell and high water. There was a reason - probably a good one, now that I have read this thread.
Good rule of thumb - if you spend a lot of time analyzing how much smarter you are than everyone else, likely you aren’t quite as smart as you think you are.
Some of the most brilliant people I know have no trouble communicating with nearly anyone - why? Because they are smart - there is no personality or topic they can’t field, all because of their intelligence, not in spite of it.
Kombat Athlete - not being able to communicate with some people doesn’t automatically mean it is because you are so much smarter than they are. It may actually mean the opposite.
[quote]KombatAthlete wrote:
I hate to potentially sound like the cockiest person alive, but this is an Internet forum after-all.
Does anyone else feel like their unusually high intelligence makes them removed from society, in the sense that you feel separated from just about everyone else you know?
I have noticed this more and more about myself the older I grow (I’m in high school), and although it’s not a bad problem to have, it is a little troubling emotionally. It’s like I’m just not on the same playing field as everyone else. Keep in mind that I have a normal social life and am atheltic so I don’t feel removed simply due to being wierd.
Can anybody else share any insight they might have about this, either from their own experience or someone you knew?[/quote]
Stop hanging out in elementary school playgrounds…oh and it is weird not wierd…Gauss you are not I’m afraid.
I’m so fucking smart I have to imbibe copious amounts of THC before I can understand any of you web idiots.
My internet IQ is right around 2000, but with the help of doctor prescribed marijuana I’m able to dumb myself down to a mere IQ of 200.
Bow down before me feeble forumites!
[quote]nephorm wrote:
I imagine that as you grow older, you’ll find that the gap between you and your peers will diminish significantly. By training for a profession, you’ll start to filter people out (one way or the other).
By being exposed to people older than you who have much more experience. You are sheltered from that, to a certain extent. You’ll also find, as you get older, that people have things that they invest their time and energies into; dedication can outshine aptitude.
Of course, a lot of it is dependent upon how far away from the mean you are. In high school, where you are mixed in with what is a more representative sample of the population, small differences may appear great.[/quote]
Granted, I’m a young buck, so my experience is brief and largely irrelevant, but I seem to notice the opposite. I feel like the “gap” is getting larger and larger as I get older.
Alot of my friends are professionals or doctoral candidates/other advanced degree seekers, so I feel like I’ve been exposed to a pretty respectable sample of people. Like you supposed, I assumed when I came to college that the intellectual climate would improve, but it really hasn’t, on the whole.
[quote]storeydp wrote:
I’m so fucking smart I have to imbibe copious amounts of THC before I can understand any of you web idiots.
My internet IQ is right around 2000, but with the help of doctor prescribed marijuana I’m able to dumb myself down to a mere IQ of 200.
Bow down before me feeble forumites![/quote]
LOL
For the record…this is the dumbest thread on this web site.
You can’t communicate because you are so intellectually advanced? Don’t ever become a teacher, doctor, lawyer, stockbroker or anyone else who has a profession where skill in not only speaking to people but getting inside of their heads is valuable.
You are in high school. Everyone is a dumbass in high school…especially the kids who think they aren’t.