How smart are you???

[Angel of Iniquity]

Here's a bit of a change in direction for this topic. Instead of answering how smart you think you are, why don't we discuss how exactly you've come to the conclusion of how intelligent / smart you are?

For example, I use the point of reference method and my point of reference isn't so obscure that it's just anyone I meet. I use my sister as my point because she can speak 7 different languages and has a bachelors degree in mathematics. Which is not the hardest degree ever, but it's not the easiest ever either.

Edit:I received an award for best original screenplay in high school. It happened also be the only original screenplay.

Well, okay, but things might get sketchy. The first signs of Hostility, we should change subject.

I single handedly passed my school in the Science MCAS(Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System) in fourth grade, surpassing the entire state of Massachusetts. I failed my 8th grade year, with all 55's, but they passed my and put me in honors in 9th grade because they apparently tested me, which I had no Idea, and proved I was more than capable. They also put me in a college course in that first year of high school, in which my teacher told me I had a better reading vocabulary and reading skills than at his university.

[LocoColt04]

For example, I use the point of reference method and my point of reference isn't so obscure that it's just anyone I meet. I use my sister as my point because she can speak 7 different languages and has a bachelors degree in mathematics. Which is not the hardest degree ever, but it's not the easiest ever either.

Edit:I received an award for best original screenplay in high school. It happened also be the only original screenplay.

Quick response to your edit... LAWL SIR, EL OH EL


My sister would also be a good reference point. While she'll be the first to claim she isn't smart (math is an abhorrent terror for her), I look more at her achievements as motivation than anything else. Her major is something of a more Liberal Arts classification, and a lot of people claim that those are primarily worthless degrees, but let's look at what she's doing with it.

Next fall, she is transferring to John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, to spend her final two years of university-level* school there, and graduate with a degree in International Studies. Compounded with her business courses and years of Italian courses, she intends to go into governmental work in either country working as a translator or some other form of foreign-relations duty.

That requires a lot of intelligence. Learning the full intricacies of another language to be truly fluent... having the drive and desire to make all of those things fall into place... that's what I consider "real" smart.


Myself? I would love nothing more than to go back and finish school. Yep, I'm a dropout. Granted, the means of dropping out were beyond my control... meningitis, surgery, etc. Failing semesters due to medical misgivings... it wasn't fun. I was able to start the clean slate program at the school and wipe the two attempts I made, but it really just means starting from scrap again.

When I do, I'm actually looking at Mathematics myself. I love the logic required for the subject, and am very interested in taking it to a post-grad level, and learning more about what's beyond the basics. Theory is very intriguing to me.

*I use the term "university-level" because many of our other members hail from countries where "college" is equivalent to high school Stateside.

I failed my 8th grade year, with all 55's, but they passed my and put me in honors in 9th grade because they apparently tested me, which I had no Idea, and proved I was more than capable.

Some schools are fortunate enough to have a faculty capable of realizing the difference between "unintelligent" and "troubled." A lot of times, smart kids actually do poorly because they are bored with the subject matter.

[Sinister]

I placed 97% in the nation in a critical thinking exit exam from my last Uni. So if Critical Thought is important, I'm okay. If it's IQ that is important, I placed 162.

Either way, I'm intelligent enough not to put too much emphasis on IQ or Standardized testing.

-Sin

[Angel of Iniquity]

Some schools are fortunate enough to have a faculty capable of realizing the difference between "unintelligent" and "troubled." A lot of times, smart kids actually do poorly because they are bored with the subject matter.

Yes, I was picked on, lost interest with school, and felt that I wasn't going to learn anything "learning" what they wanted me too lol.
I can't hold a convo with people in real life because they don't understand certain words lol.
Here is a different story haha

And your sister seems pretty well rounded with her smarts haha.
And sorry to here about meningitis. Spianl taps hurt... like hell...

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Either way, I'm intelligent enough not to put too much emphasis on IQ or Standardized testing.

-Sin

I've totally heard that from other people including one of my best friends Ethan. Whom will be coming to visit me shortly. I used the word 'whom' in a thread about being smart. I must be a genius.

[LocoColt04]

I placed 97% in the nation in a critical thinking exit exam from my last Uni. So if Critical Thought is important, I'm okay. If it's IQ that is important, I placed 162.

Either way, I'm intelligent enough not to put too much emphasis on IQ or Standardized testing.

-Sin

Fantastic line of thought. As mentioned before, standardized testing really just checks logical capabilities and some other functional crap. All the same, quite impressive sir.

[Clint]

my psych told me My IQ is about 94-98 percent higher than most Americans.

Whatever you say, bin Laden.

Nobody has ever told me my IQ, because I've never wanted somebody else to tell me how intelligent or unintelligent I am. I know I'm smart enough. I'm nowhere near as smart as my brother or my father, but I'm relatively smart in my fields of expertise.

Needless, there's a difference between knowing that you're smart in a specific field, and thinking that you're a genius and above average. If you can pass an IQ test with flying colors, that's great, but that's not a grant to intelligence. That just means you're good at taking tests.

[Rocky]

I graduated with honors in high school, am on the deans list in college, and I can get decently attractive girls to send me nude pictures with my charm, so do I win yet?

[OceanEyes28]

My sugar daddy tells me so.



Also I mod a FF forum. SUPERmod a FF forum. So. I mean, yeah. Brains, baby. So many brains.

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My sugar daddy tells me so.



Also I mod a FF forum. SUPERmod a FF forum. So. I mean, yeah. Brains, baby. So many brains.

Brains
Just saying.

[motscroises]

The more I learn about IQ testing, the less stock I place in it. There are lots of different kinds of intelligences that don't get measured at all in these IQ tests, and there are many things that make me think that they just don't measure what they're supposed to (like the fact that minority groups just don't do as well on the standard IQ test).

Even so, I'm pretty sure I was tested when I was young, but I was never shown my score. As a result of this test, I was placed in some advanced classes. However I don't even really let that effect my view on my own intelligence because studies have shown that the IQ of someone as a youth doesn't correlate as highly as it should with their IQ as an adult. This further lends to my whole 'IQ tests are crap' theory. I still think it is important to recognize that some people are incredibly intelligent, I just don't think that these tests do what they're supposed to.

[Unknown Entity]

Really, an IO test proves nothing other that you can answer some questions. I understand that you have to apply a lot of thought to an IQ test, but how many people apply thought to one? Every single IQ test I've done I haven't taken seriously. And I get anywhere between 100-120. I once got under 100; I once got just over 130, but they were a stupid facebook piece of crap things that was put together by some noob who had too much time on their hands.

It always depends on the test, and I find that they're never extensive enough. Even a CATs test which you take at school doesn't really place you where you know you can be. A good genius is an absent minded one.

So how smart am I? I dunno. Everyone is smart in their own ways, but whether it's useful or not is unique to the person.

[Angel of Iniquity]

Really, an IO test proves nothing other that you can answer some questions. I understand that you have to apply a lot of thought to an IQ test, but how many people apply thought to one? Every single IQ test I've done I haven't taken seriously. And I get anywhere between 100-120. I once got under 100; I once got just over 130, but they were a stupid facebook piece of crap things that was put together by some noob who had too much time on their hands.

It always depends on the test, and I find that they're never extensive enough. Even a CATs test which you take at school doesn't really place you where you know you can be. A good genius is an absent minded one.

So how smart am I? I dunno. Everyone is smart in their own ways, but whether it's useful or not is unique to the person.

If you score high on a IQ test, it means you should have the ability to learn and apply things better than somebody who scored lower, meaning you have the ability to hold more intelligence.
Honestly, the only people who don't believe in IQ tests are people who don't score high on them, and then bleh bleh bleh

[che]

If you score high on a IQ test, it means you should have the ability to learn and apply things better than somebody who scored lower, meaning you have the ability to hold more intelligence.
Honestly, the only people who don't believe in IQ tests are people who don't score high on them, and then bleh bleh bleh

Alright, you're seriously just trolling now.

[Rocky]

If you score high on a IQ test, it means you should have the ability to learn and apply things better than somebody who scored lower, meaning you have the ability to hold more intelligence.
Honestly, the only people who don't believe in IQ tests are people who don't score high on them, and then bleh bleh bleh

ban this man.

[Clint]

If you score high on a IQ test, it means you should have the ability to learn and apply things better than somebody who scored lower, meaning you have the ability to hold more intelligence.

You are conceited, vain, and self-absorbed. You may very well be smart despite what I may think, but you are far too arrogant to be wise. This is why people get pissed off at you, man.

Honestly, the only people who don't believe in IQ tests are people who don't score high on them, and then bleh bleh bleh

The only people who have to brag about a supposed high score on a meaningless test have extremely small dicks.

[OceanEyes28]

Easy, folks. I don't want this to get out of hand, and I don't want to hand out warnings.

(but... I will )

[Sinister]

If you score high on a IQ test, it means you should have the ability to learn and apply things better than somebody who scored lower, meaning you have the ability to hold more intelligence.
Honestly, the only people who don't believe in IQ tests are people who don't score high on them, and then bleh bleh bleh

You don't...honestly believe that, do you? That is naive. I placed a 162, which is relatively high. I don't tout that as my worth. I don't wear a badge that declares my IQ. I don't get free respect or ice cream because of it. It doesn't make life easier. And believe me just because I say I got a 162, doesn't mean people will believe me or like me for that. Which is something you should learn.

Because if you know anything you'd know that standardized testing has variables. Did the person testing give a shit? Did they stay up all night studying? Did they have too much caffeine, not enough? What about their attention span, can it stay focused for 2-3 hour long test? Was it graded on the bell-gaussian curve or no? Just because it's simply the best method of determining what they call Intelligent Quotient, doesn't mean it's any good.

Gotta learn to start challenging preconceived ideas, or ones that you were spoonfed.

-Sin

[Angel of Iniquity]

You are conceited, vain, and self-absorbed. You may very well be smart despite what I may think, but you are far too arrogant to be wise. This is why people get pissed off at you, man.

The only people who have to brag about a supposed high score on a meaningless test have extremely small dicks.

*laughs*
Yes, I may be arrogant, but people here shouldn't just speak. I put too much thought which screws my point and people here don't put enough.
Yes, I am slightly Egotistical, but then again, you can't go against proof if it is in your face.

And what the hell does penis size have to do with high IQ?
I don't think of **** when I think of intellect...?
No, and again, show me what in this post have I shown to be unintelligent and or wise?

I honestly, have the most fun laughing at the extents of certain people here.
They don't know how to react to people who think different.
Fukin shit.

From past, or at least my past, people wouldn't think I know what I am talking about, which will severely screw your view of me.

[SOLDIER #819]

What I have learned from this thread with my high IQ:

1. TFFers are smarter than a majority of Americans.
2. It is okay to make clear that we are smarter than said majority, but we must not do it an overt manner and conduct ourselves as proper members of the elite. (Noblesse oblige)
3. The amount of time you brag about your test scores has an inverse relationship with your penis size and that I am in big trouble.

Also I mod a FF forum. SUPERmod a FF forum.

One strike against an otherwise spotless record.

(Ally, when are you going to close this thread?)

EDIT by oceaneyes28: lol right nao

[Angel of Iniquity]

What I have learned from this thread with my high IQ:

1. TFFers are smarter than a majority of Americans.
2. It is okay to make clear that we are smarter than said majority, but we must not do it an overt manner and conduct ourselves as proper members of the elite. (Noblesse oblige)
3. The amount of time you brag about your test scores has an inverse relationship with your penis size and that I am in big trouble.


One strike against an otherwise spotless record.

LMAO!
Oi hell, that was, pretty much a great assessment haha.

[OceanEyes28]

Ugh, okay. Done. This thread: done.

I'm sick of having to watch over it. Move on, go do something else, stop arguing, etc etc etc.

Closed.