How smart are you?

It's interesting how 50% of the responses claimed to be smarter than 90% of the population. If you clicked that, maybe you should re-evaluate your choice.

People have become specialists in specific areas...and sadly...general intelligence has suffered. Not many people are "Renaissance thinkers" anymore.

It takes a special mind to be able to recall history, science, advanced mathematics, etc.

I know engineers that are brilliant in "THAT" specific discipline and are dumb as a bag of hammers in say history or archaeology.

I strive to be a "Renaissance man". I try to be creative, artful, critical and spiritual. I try to solve problems I face both inside and outside the box. I had my IQ tested many years ago and I have learned a ton since then...but overall, I would prob rate about the same. I am NOT a super genius...just a dude trying to make it through this life as best I can.

After reading that post you can also add 'cliche specialist' to your list of abilities :-)

Think about 100 people in your life.
Parents, friends, co-workers, extended family, teachers, stc.
Rank yourself.

And government employed.

It is interesting to note that everyone rates themselves as brighter than those around them. One's perception of other peoples' intelligence will always be limited by your own so will result in a self fulfilling inference that one is cleverer than those around them.

The only real test is when people you know well tell you you're a lucky bastard for being so clever. Other than that, one's perception of one's own intelligence is inevitably limited to your own level of stupidity and dare I say it, many on this thread fall into that category.

Black?

Probably not as smart as I think I am lol

I do see that 77% of people on GLP have a massive ego!

I dismiss most people as being as smart as my dog. Not because I'm a pompous asshole, but because REALLY, my dog is just as smart.

I calculated 79% you might wanna check your math again.

I chose right in the middle.

Let's first get out of the way that knowing more about conspiracy theories does not equal being smarter. Although, there have been a time when I did think that (not unlike many others I suspect), and would most likely have hit the 90% as well.

Having said that. I always had an edge over the people I grew up with but since, I have met many people with more life experience, knowledge, and have at least my IQ.

It was a sobering but a most valuable experience when I started hanging out with different crowds. And also here I suspect that the people who ranked themselves in the upper 80 or 90% should try hanging out with different crowds.

I'm intelligence as heck!

Not as massive as mine!

pinned!


Well, upon seeing your thread title, I figured I was not going to be so presumptuous as to rank myself 'according' to my own perceptions of myself'; then I read the body of your comment:

"Think about 100 people in your life.
Parents, friends, co-workers, extended family, teachers, stc.
Rank yourself"

It has to be 90%. I do not know ONE person who makes any effort to find out the why's and how's of the world and systems they 'live' in.

Everyone I know seems to 'just be' content with going about their own business.

A surprising number of them NEVER read newspapers, or even watch news broadcasts, of any kind.

"What do you mean 'stop eating seafood?' Fukushima? What's that? Corexit? What?"

"GMO's?"

"You better stop going to that website. Everyone KNOWS that flouride is essential to good dental health! Oh, man!"

"Where do you get this stuff? The BIBLE specifically states that..."

"Sigh Op? Wha?"

These are just milder examples.

Those that DO have some interest in "being well informed" tend to start bitching and moaning when the news outlets they watch tell them it's time to bitch and moan. It is akin to a 'pavlov's dog' response.

They listen = they believe.

They would NEVER consider trying to research the possibility that what they are hearing could be some degree of propaganda, or, guided acceptance.

This goes for ANY and ALL news outlets. There's no thought to 'read between the lines.' No effort to dig deeper.

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So, based upon your parameters...at least 90%

GLP rules!!!



p.s.: I'm having trouble posting at the moment. site access problems again!