How smart are you, relative to everyone else in the world?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw0j6TsQ-Dk

this will be controversial, but i expect, nay, demand, more or less everyone here to vote for 90th to 99th percentile.

what measure of "intelligence" are we using?

Whatever measure your little heart desires.

read: The one in which you score yourself highest

Well, preferably just a general concept of how smart you think you are compared to everyone else, not a number based on any kind of actual intelligence test like the IQ test or whatever.

smart in terms of 'streetwise' i probably wouldn't have voted tops, for instance, but if we're talking Scrabulous then sorry but maximum pwnage it is.

Good lord, if we had to base this on Scrabble ability, I'd surely be down in the 20th percentile...

i assume we're including in "the world's population" the 20% or so thereof that's deemed illiterate, and the 30% or so under the age of 15

Is this a human-centric definition of "world's population"?

Don't you mean 'anthropocentric', Bob?

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I test well, but am I smart? Like, about life and relationships and friendships and stuff like that? Very average.

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Sometimes I wish I was a guinea pig, no thoughts but about when I'd get my chin rubbed or some more delicious vegetable, then running in crircles for the fun of it.

i've gotta be top third

Yah, I went in the 70%s, according to the school grading system, that's "average." Tho I have no way to guess this.

i am both at the exact same time very smart and very dumb but it does not equal out to 50% i think it just means it doesn't matter

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If you just keep clicking the button over and over again, you're probably in the bottom 10%

lxy has already accounted for him

Is there not a stat that 90% of people think they're of above average intelligence?

Maybe if I was above the 75th centile I would already etc etc etc

I've been tested to death on these things, and always come up stupidly high. But then if you figure in things like common sense, and emotional intelligence, I've got none of those, so I'm stupidly low. I have no idea how to answer this question.

I got my book smarts at the polytechnic of life.

Umm...

Is there not a stat that 90% of people think they're of above average intelligence?

IF so, I rank in the ten procent who believes they are just plain stupid.

I do okayish in IQ tests, but only in the verbal parts. :-(

(And judging on the post above, you can tell how much that's an exaggeration.)

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I have very high emotional intelligence and FUCK YOU if you disagree.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

So, you're all in Mensa too then? *secret handshake*

Wait, that's the masons, innit? Dam.

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geniuses be needing some copy editors

seriously reading these gangsters webpages is totally bringin out the groucho marx

YOU ARROGANT MOTHERFUCKERS

I voted 60 to 69.

Huh huh 69.

Seriously though, this is ridiculous. You people aren't that smart.

oh who didn't see these results coming a self-delusional mile away

0th to 9th percentile 5
OK how many of these are self-deprecating, and how many got the percentages the wrong way round?

hahahahaha

if they got the percentages round the wrong way, then they're not that smart

I'm not surprised - for Americans, the only (alleged) measure of raw intelligence most of us have are SAT results, and in the last SAT-dick-waving thread there were a ton of scores in the 90th percentile or better.

I want to take the US military entrance test, but I'm sure they'd never stop calling afterward.

i only glanced at this briefly:
Top 5% (95th percentile; IQ 125 sd15, IQ 126 sd16): International High IQ Society
Top 2% (98th percentile; IQ 130 sd15, IQ 132 sd16): Mensa International[2], High Potentials Society, Mysterium Society, Altacapacidadhispana, SocratIQ Society, Encefálica
Top 1% (99th percentile; IQ 135 sd15, IQ 137 sd16): Intertel, Top One Percent Society, Elateneo/s Society, Superdotados-Intelectuales, The Mind Society
Top 0.5% (99.5th percentile; IQ 139 sd15, IQ 141 sd16): Colloquy, Poetic Genius Society
Top 0.37% (99.63rd percentile; IQ 140 sd15, IQ 143 sd1

but if i'm reading it right, having an IQ of 125 puts you in the 95th percentile. that doesn't seem right. i think my IQ is around 130, but i know heaps of ppl with higher IQs than that. i would have guessed my IQ put me around the 75th percentile (i.e. above average).

although if i read the above incorrectly, that doesn't do my display of intelligence any favours.

Wow yeah, what Alisa said - I could read on sixth grade level in kindergarten, and everyone made a big deal about it. Now I still read on the same level.

you mean it's about being slim? i would probably be in 80th to 89th percentile then

How egotistical are you, relative to everyone else in the world?

HI GUYS this thread has nothing to do with IQ

How much of a thread nazi are you compared to everyone else in the world?

Why don't you step into this shower and find out?

I don't think people aren't smart as much as they just aren't attentive, or observant. The world is crazy, there is SO MUCH to learn and see and find out from other people...just keeping your EYES OPEN and basic mental processing turned on gathers in so much.

xp NICK ahahaha you jerk.

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haha, for a second I think you were being crepey and I was very weirded
out. Then I realized you just meant a gas chamber so it was cool.

The only reason I am being a "thread nazi" is that we've already had about 3,000 IQ cockmeasuring threads.

But they're so much fun.

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every thread on ilx has been done 3K times. We are a boring, apparently far less intelligent than we think we are, bunch.

People who talk about their smartyness are stupid.

I put myself in the top tenth because that's been the result of every standardized test I've ever taken, from the ACT to the ASVAB and etc etc

I'm not an arrogant motherfucker by any means. I'm cantankerous.

People who are not as intelligent as highly intelligent people are often highly hostile to the highly intelligent people because they see that the people are smart and it makes them feel inferior, so they want revenge. This is why you do not normally see highly intelligent people in positions of power because dumb people had an ego problem with them. This is why I hate dumb people and the dumb wars they start, and there are even very, very sickeningly dumb people who deny global warming is even happening despite every scientific reason to believe so.

I hate stupid people. I hate them with a passion.

Infact, I hate people who watch Maury Povich on TV. Who demand nothing more from life than that kind of trash. The constitution is being ripped to shreds and they are so very, very stupid.

People who are not as intelligent as highly intelligent people are often highly hostile to the highly intelligent people because they see that the people are smart and it makes them feel inferior, so they want revenge.

After reading this sentence, I will only accept that you are highly intelligent if English is not your native tongue.

The problem with going on about how much smarter you are than everyone else and how you hate stupid people is that you probably haven't yet encountered the limits of yr own capabilities. If you are lucky, then you'll get a chance to truly test yr mettle -- intellectual or otherwise -- sometime in life. The extent of yr success will probably determine the degree to which you become both generous to those less fortunate and humbled by yr own inadequacies.

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xpost 99th percentile of wiseness and downtoearthitude

The problem with going on about how much smarter you are than everyone else and how you hate stupid people is that you probably haven't yet encountered the limits of yr own capabilities. If you are lucky, then you'll get a chance to truly test yr mettle -- intellectual or otherwise -- sometime in life.

The older I get, the less invincible my youthful suppositions of supreme intelligence seem. Perhaps this has had something to do with the progressively more intelligent people I've been surrounded by in my daily life; more likely is that I've opened my mind so as to include the possibility of others' brilliance (i.e. the natural dissolution of egocentricism that comes with development of empathy and the acceptance through learning of alternative thinking patterns). The past few years have been very humbling for me in many ways, but with this humbling has come the great reward of self-awareness and a calibration of my life-targets. I don't hate stupid people; I hate it when people think they're far, far cleverer than they are. Something I'm guilty of sometimes, and something I'm trying to eradicate.

Mind you, at primary level and even early secondary level education, I was consistently and outstandingly within the top 1%, let alone top 10. I'd imagine the same is true for many of you.

A more interesting (and controversial) poll: How smart are you, relative to everyone else on ILX?

I always say I hate dumb people, but I'm a liar. I actually like several mentally retarded people I've met. They actually tend to be much better company than people of average or just above average intelligence.

there are so many different kinds of intelligence. I can't see how anyone could make any kind of meaningful judgment of their own 'smartness' in the way the poll sets out.

I was like in top percent of my class, but this was also a school where we got a three-week "spud break" in September so all the kids could help their parents harvest the potatoes.

Miss Manners could really school some of you on modesty. Isn't it nice to know someone a long time as an affable friendly person with whom you can make great conversation and find out somehow they're a PhD or that they invented the Toaster Strudel or somesuch, without them pointing it out to you? I feel sometimes like I'm reading the responses to a job interview.

haha that's exactly what I thought Abbott. Gratuitous self-promotion must be one of the job criteria.

Oh noes, people talking about their smartness on a thread about smartness. How WRONG of them!

I didn't say it was wrong. It just struck me as kind of obnoxious. Maybe that's because I'm not smart! Not about most things anyway.

The only way to settle this is for everybody to reveal what the stupidest and smartest things they've ever done are go.

BTW I invented the toaster strudel.

more relevant than ever

This thread v. do you think you're smarter FITE!

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/qa-why-40-of-us-think-were-in-the-top-5/

If you think you're smart, you're a big fish in a small pond - either because you're deliberately avoiding failure or you're not pushing outwards enough to the current limits of your intellect.
If you think you're dumb, it's because you're temporarily inexperienced/unknowledgeable in some small area, but you're focusing so hard on what you can't do that you're not aware of how much you can do.

great article

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http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/confident-idiots-92793?Src=longreads

lol these results

how would you vote, NV?

somewhere around the 50th percentile maybe out of a sense of "this is more or less unknowable, the test is how you answer it" and also because there's a hell of a lot of people in the world and the older i get the more i realise that remarkableness is universal

this will be controversial, but i expect, nay, demand, more or less everyone here to vote for 90th to 99th percentile.

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ban this arrant little shit

also from my own experience and from observations at work i think the notion of abstract, free-floating "smartness" is probably quite harmful for a lot of people

idk if it still works this way but when i was in school we took standardized tests every year that gave us the exact percentile that we scored in. and when i was IQ tested in first grade they included the same information. obv both standardized tests + IQ tests are questionable ways of measuring intelligence.

Standardized tests and IQ tests are very reliable ways of measuring how well one performs on standardized tests and IQ tests.

;)

but percentiles

yeah i agree with Old Lunch broadly - obviously those tests measure certain kinds of skills and aptitudes, but those skills and aptitudes don't map to what i would consider smartness. plus no matter what size your school, you're drawing assumptions about the world as a whole which is full of people who have never really been part of the same kind of schooling as you

but without going into gory details what i see in the UK at least is a sizeable number of young people who are ill-served by our teaching curriculum in part because of a disconnect between their "smartness" and the performance demands that our education system makes of them

i think the notion of abstract, free-floating "smartness" is probably quite harmful for a lot of people

as this poll demonstrates

Smart kids should be taught early and often that 'intelligence' doesn't make as much of an impact on one's prospects of long-term success (like, just success as a person in the world) as luck and acquired skill do. And, re: the article above, a metric fuckton of (potentially groundless) confidence surely doesn't hurt.

i know the sat has an essay these days (what a fucking misery that must be) but i would rly have appreciated a confidence section

(xpost) We kind of impart that message (grade-school teachers, I mean)--or at the very least, that there are many, many different kinds of smart, and that any one of them can get you where you want to go.

it's all 'grit' nowadays