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Poll Goodness yum:p

Poll Goodness yum:p
Why aren't the options in sorted in order of intellegence. I guess you just may be afew peas short of a Casserole :p.

Einstein. Considering The Fact That By The Year 2100, Most People Will Be Retards, Concerning The Quickly Falling SAT/ACT/ETC Scores At Our Schools. Wait. I Also Said In The Year 2100, Wicca Will Be The Dominant Religion. God Damnit. I Must Now Go Punch Myself.

Why aren't the options in sorted in order of intellegence. I guess you just may be afew peas short of a Casserole :p.
sry i typed them as i thought of them:rolleyes:

there are times when i feel like this:

http://www.jimflorentine.com/art/special_ed.jpg

there are times when i feel like this:

http://www.jimflorentine.com/art/special_ed.jpg
*snickers* i feel like that in math all the time..

I'm smart enough to be clever, but dumb enough not to know when being clever is a bad move.

I may be a bright bulb, but I don't have a high enough opinion of myself to be sure.

I've been injecting myself with ampakines all morning. I found them in the biochem lab in a locked hood.

At least, I think they were ampakines. They might've just been ethyl acetate or possible kool-aid.

Anyway, it's almost all in me, and I don't feel any smarter.

generally quite smart... smart enough to go to a good private school but not good enough to be anything more than average there.
though i am dyslexic (and mild dyscalculia) so i'm pretty slow at picking things up :(

sometimes i feel dumb as two shits

I'm smart enough to be clever, but dumb enough not to know when being clever is a bad move.
And I'm smart enough to have to read that three times before I could understand what you said. I kept reading words that were not there.

It's interesting that when people describe their intelligence, they very rarely claim to be average or below average. Same with IQs. It's always 120+ IQ. Where are all the 100 IQers?

And I'm smart enough to have to read that three times before I could understand what you said. I kept reading words that were not there.
Meh, it came off awkwardly. I'm sure there is a more elegant way of phrasing those words, but I pretty much blew my wad of wit this evening on the Un-Japanese thread.
Ah, Socrates, what won't you do?

Meh, it came off awkwardly. I'm sure there is a more elegant way of phrasing those words, but I pretty much blew my wad of wit this evening on the Un-Japanese thread.
Ah, Socrates, what won't you do?
But my first two tries I consistantly added ever after clever. That is odd indeed. BTW, I think you phrased it pretty well. Its quite quotable.

Wile E Coyote.

I am so smart, I make myself sick.

140 -- High Gifted (99th percentile). But as we say in Dungeons and Dragons, High Intelligence, Low Wisdom.

Why aren't the options in sorted in order of intellegence. I guess you just may be afew peas short of a Casserole :p.

hehehe.. that's great.. *smiles*

How would you describe your intelligence lvl?


*DM: AllCoolNamesAreTaken rolls three six- sided dice: 6 6 5*

17, sweet! Good enough for a mage.

*DM: AllCoolNamesAreTaken rolls three six- sided dice: 6 6 5*

17, sweet! Good enough for a mage.


Yer such a nerd.

Im such a nerd, for recoqnizing yer nerdness.

Shrug...eh..wadda ya do.

Anybody remember GURPS, where your IQ stat was basically every non-physical aspect of your character?

Willpower? IQ roll.

Fearcheck? IQ roll.

Aptitude for music, cartography, physics, magick, psionics? IQ.

Sure, you could tweak it with ads/disads, but your IQ stat was the starting point for just about everything you did with your mind.

A flaw in an otherwise cool game.

*DM: AllCoolNamesAreTaken rolls three six- sided dice: 6 6 5*

17, sweet! Good enough for a mage.


And by 8th level you can bump it up to 19 and eventually use 9th level spells.

Wile E Coyote.

YAY! :D

As smart as 400 hits of good Haight-Ashbury blotter can make you...

As smart as 400 hits of good Haight-Ashbury blotter can make you...

:eek: 400? *whewww*

Vegetarianistica']:eek: 400? *whewww*Well, not all at once and I'm only estimating.

It was sometimes hard to keep ...er, count, if you know what I mean.;)

You left "Godlike" off the poll, leaving no way to describe my intellegence.:(

:D

Where are all the 100 IQers?
Well, I'm 112 I think. So there you go, I won't lie - statistically, I'm not very intelligent. And I suck at calculating things in my head.

At school and uni though, I get very good grades indeed, and I'll be doing honours and I got three recommendations from the Dean. Meaning that intelligence doesn't matter nearly as much as interest and a bit of a work ethic.

By what measure? I tend to score high on IQ tests (which measure nothing but "how well you can do IQ tests", IMHO) and quite good at logic puzzles (yes, I've been bitten by the Sudoko bug) but I'm stupid enough to be still up at almost 6AM, and thus having to make a decision over whether to go to sleep for a very short time, sleep for a normal time and miss most of the day or stay awake... (What I'm saying is that I'm so dumb about some things, i.e. common-sense, time management, etc...)

I could never make it past level 3. Damn level 3 boss.:headbang:

Not a very good poll.

Intelligence is as intelligence does. I've met more than my share of Einsteins who couldn't drive a car without wrecking, and had to be helped with their checkbook because they couldn't stop thinking about math and physics.

Common sense, while quite useful, is not measured on intelligence tests. Interpersonal communication isn't measured on intelligence tests, either, but it can give the impression that an articulate, friendly person is more "intelligent".

Acording to this one little IQ test i did my teacher was asking me if i cheated cause it was Einstein level... but no, I'm not that smart... smart enough though to have passed IB, for anyone who actually knows what that is

Einstein. Considering The Fact That By The Year 2100, Most People Will Be Retards, Concerning The Quickly Falling SAT/ACT/ETC Scores At Our Schools. Wait. I Also Said In The Year 2100, Wicca Will Be The Dominant Religion. God Damnit. I Must Now Go Punch Myself.

I think Einstein would have had better control over the shift/caps lock key.

Oh don't punch yourself, please allow me.

If there is a large amount of smart people, then they would be the new average. Since the majority of people are ranking themselves as 'Quite Intelligent' (Egotists), then they would be average, and the bar would be set higher.

Other.

I'm infected by a severe case of humility, so I cannot rate mysef.

I am theoretically very smart. IQ 140-something. However I also have ADD, school-phobia, and I use a computer in school. I am both special needs and, if I am to believe my psycologist, einstien. Hmm, what to put? :confused:

I took an IQ test about 3 yrs ago and scored like 136....

I'm smart enough to know that I'm stupid

Poll Goodness yum:p
At this point, not in too confusing a manner:

Sporadic and dangerously inconsistent.
*nods*

I voted einstein just to be a dick.

Anybody remember GURPS, where your IQ stat was basically every non-physical aspect of your character?

Willpower? IQ roll.

Fearcheck? IQ roll.

Aptitude for music, cartography, physics, magick, psionics? IQ.

Sure, you could tweak it with ads/disads, but your IQ stat was the starting point for just about everything you did with your mind.

A flaw in an otherwise cool game.
Agreed. *bows*

Generic(u)Roll-PlayingSystem


So when are you pulling off that agreeable mask of yours, Saint? ;)

You left "Godlike" off the poll, leaving no way to describe my intellegence.:(

:D
Do you mean infantile, emotionally crippled, cruel, very clearly not-omniscient, bloodthirsty and easy to goad? Did you mean that (OT) "God"?
Or the one from KMFDM? ;)

BTW, your post kinda pales in comparison to Czardas. I think there may be a Clash of the Titans in the wings ...

I voted einstein just to be a dick.
you got the haircut of him anyway, right ;)

I'm smart enough to know that I'm stupid
Oh come on, you're lowering the bar of "average" to EVEN LOWER!

;)

Just kidding. I couldn't resist. More people should be able to post as you have.

you got the haircut of him anyway, right ;)
Well the drapes don't match the carpet. :(

you got the haircut of him anyway, right ;)

LMAO!

Not quite. I know someone else who does, though :p

I'm smart enough to be clever, but dumb enough not to know when being clever is a bad move.
Are you actually being honest? :eek:
Hey Verd, did you catch this? *nudge*

I've been injecting myself with ampakines all morning. I found them in the biochem lab in a locked hood.

At least, I think they were ampakines. They might've just been ethyl acetate or possible kool-aid.

Anyway, it's almost all in me, and I don't feel any smarter.
(bolded) - so, are you feeling more of a hankerin' towards voting Republican?
If so, i think you got the wrong kit.

How would you describe your intelligence lvl?I wouldn't.
If it's not self-evident, who am I to mention it.

Well I have and IQ of 135 making me 35% better than you when it comes to IQ tests! Fear the mental superioty internet IQ exams has given me!

From Broadcast News (http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092699/maindetails) (1987):

Paul Moore: It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room.

Jane Craig: No. It's awful.

The smarter you are, the more surrounded you are by idiots.. It's a curse, I tell ya..

generally quite smart... smart enough to go to a good private school but not good enough to be anything more than average there.
though i am dyslexic (and mild dyscalculia) so i'm pretty slow at picking things up :(

sometimes i feel dumb as two shits

Going to a good private school does not make you smart, you get in because you pay (unless of course, you won a scholarship).
Being dyslexic does not mean you are slow or stupid.
If you feel dumb, you must realise why you feel dumb therefore, you're not that dumb.

Well I have and IQ of 135 making me 35% better than you when it comes to IQ tests! Fear the mental superioty internet IQ exams has given me!
To say nothing of your spelling......there is no d in the word 'an'.........and would you mean 'superiority' ? :p

138. No genius, but no dumbass either.

I believe IQ tests are a pretty inaccurate measure as intelligence is something that cannot be wholely quantified. Furthermore, I put much greater stock in what someone DOES with their intelligence then how intelligent they are.

The poll results reminded me of the tag for Prairie Home Companion. NS General, where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the children are above average.

Well, I'm 112 I think. So there you go, I won't lie - statistically, I'm not very intelligent. And I suck at calculating things in my head.

At school and uni though, I get very good grades indeed, and I'll be doing honours and I got three recommendations from the Dean. Meaning that intelligence doesn't matter nearly as much as interest and a bit of a work ethic.

By what measure? I tend to score high on IQ tests (which measure nothing but "how well you can do IQ tests", IMHO)

I totally agree. I have never done an IQ test, but a friend has, and she told me what kind of questions/task were in it - and it was just so, well, biased, for lack of a better word.

That was quite some time ago, so unfortunately I can't remember the details, but I do remember that we both (!) agreed that there were large parts of the test that were very easy for her to grasp and solve quickly solely because she was at medical school and all they ever had in ways of tests were that same exact kind of "multiple choice" style test, with questions/tasks structured exactly like she'd been used to for years.

We also both agreed that I, the liberal arts major, who has hardly ever even seen that kind of multiple choice test but has been trained in a whole different kind of scientific thinking/arguing, would most decidedly suck at that part, unless I didn't practice for it. Now if that right there doesn't invalidate the concept of IQ tests at least to some extent, I don't know what does.


On a slightly unrelated note, I don't even know which of the following poll options is "more intelligent":
"smart"; "quite intelligent"; or "a bright bulb"? I would like to blame that one on the language barrier, though. :p

To say nothing of your spelling......there is no d in the word 'an'.........and would you mean 'superiority' ? :p
It was irony.. obviously..

Im both smart and have special needs (desexia)

I wonder how accurate this poll is... I mean, I voted I'm a drool monkey, but I'm not drooling. :p

I'm too intelligent to take part in such petty polls, which is why I chose 'Other'.

Uhhm...modesty aside....either "Quite Intelligent", or "Other". The other option would be sharp/quick on the uptake. :)

Generic(u)Roll-PlayingSystem

"Universal"... (Some say that's tautological, what with the stated Genericism, but it makes it easier to say... ;)

Anyway, HTH HAND. ;)

Supremely intelligent, unfortunately, at the expense of humility:p

there are times when i feel like this:

http://www.jimflorentine.com/art/special_ed.jpg
I got mail! YAY!

I am very smart.

5 pages and not one of you has snickered at the 'Einstien' option? :eek:

ah well... I've never taken any IQ tests, but really I don't care.
As some other posters above I believe that IQ test only whether you're 'booksmart' or not. Studies have shown that the correlation between IQ and success in life decreases steadily the further you progress in your schooling/education.

What sort of intelligence do you wish to measure? The IQ?
Because if not we'd have to define what we mean by talking about 'intelligence'.

Highly interesting topic, imho.

http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/gruebel.gif
I guess a bright bulb in a faulty electrical grid.

Gee... tough question... is it purely the IQ we're talking about or general daily-life-sorta problems solving too?

I'm pretty average when it comes to math, horrible when it comes to logic tests, got good enough test results when I went to the conscription tests to become a sgt. after basic training(although I didn't do the military service, I became a firefighter instead), pretty witty most of the time, average when it comes to practical things, horrible with economy and a genius/madman when it comes to relationships... oh, and I suck at Sudoku.

I concider myself smart, but in the end I will probably succeed or fail on my sparkling good looks ;) *G*

I'm too intelligent to take part in such petty polls, which is why I chose 'Other'.

if you voted... then you took part in the poll.

hehe

"Universal"... (Some say that's tautological, what with the stated Genericism, but it makes it easier to say... ;)

Anyway, HTH HAND. ;)
:eek:
True. I'd been saying the euphemized version.

if you voted... then you took part in the poll.

hehe
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