How smart are you, relative to everyone else in ILX?

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
90th to 99th percentile 16
0th to 9th percentile6
80th to 89th percentile 6
50th to 59th percentile 5
20th to 29th percentile 4
70th to 79th percentile 3
30th to 39th percentile 3
60th to 69th percentile 2
40th to 49th percentile 2
10th to 19th percentile 1


That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 12 August 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

it had to happen

Just got offed, Sunday, 12 August 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

Now if this is not a bell curve, someone is fooling themselves. Right?

moley, Sunday, 12 August 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

And are we talking about IQ or so-called 'emotional intelligence'? Because this stuff makes a difference to some of us.

moley, Sunday, 12 August 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

My prediction: over 50% of voters are going to vote within the 70 to 89 percentile range.

Just got offed, Sunday, 12 August 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

dude, you have just ensured that NO ONE will vote in the 70 to 89 percentile.

Rubyredd, Sunday, 12 August 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

oh really? let's wait and see.

Just got offed, Sunday, 12 August 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

you may have a point, however. a few might drop down to 50-69.

Just got offed, Sunday, 12 August 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

My prediction is that the majority will vote in the highest percentile.

moley, Sunday, 12 August 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

moley otm

kv_nol, Monday, 13 August 2007 09:12 (eighteen years ago)

my prediction is that the results will fall squarely within the results of the studies mentioned here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon_effect

Richard Wood Johnson, Monday, 13 August 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

I R Dumb. I don't even get the percentile thing. If I 0-9th percentile it means the other 81 procent is dumber than I am? See I R MORAN!

nathalie, Monday, 13 August 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

I went for 50-59, but I'm likely kidding myself. I'm probably more near the bottom that I'd ever like to acknowledge.

kenan, Monday, 13 August 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

most of the people on the lower half of the curve are on ilm

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 13 August 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

i must be pretty dumb as friday i clicked on ilxor and figured the server was down. never occurred to me to check the old domains until someone told me to do so this morning..

sanskrit, Monday, 13 August 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

since i have no "empirical" way of determining this, i picked a semi-random interval. we should make a test!

Maria, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

I predict that the results to this poll will be statistically improbable.

John Justen, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

Unless, of couse, all the stupid people on ILX fail to vote, which would explain the eventual anomaly.

John Justen, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

what would the ILX intelligence test look like? lolcat analogies?

milo z, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

dunno, i've always thought that everyone on ilx was pretty bright. but it could just be that they're full of shit.

mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

i do think that i can outdrink them though--except for jj and fluffy

mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

and kevin from chicago!

mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

Figuring in my smart/stupid ratio vs. my sober/drunk posting ratio, I probably should have placed myself much lower on this scale.

John Justen, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

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

ILX System, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

STRANGE MATH.

John Justen, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, they're smart, they should be able to do the proofs.

dan m, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fullhyderabad.com/images/smileys/dumb.gif

W4LTER, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

damn we smart

Wrinklepaws, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

People be usurping me, 16 of you passing by 90 other ilXors and being smarter than them. I'm only smart enough for the highly anachronistic job of snuffing out candles in the streetlamps.

Abbott, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

My prediction is that the majority will vote in the highest percentile.

-- moley, Sunday, August 12, 2007

moley, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 01:54 (eighteen years ago)

WHO JUDGES THE JUDGERS?

HOW MANY BELL CURVES CAN DANCE ON THE HEAD OF A PIN?

TEKING MIDOL FOR MY 'MENSA'TRUATION, OUVH MY ACHING BRANE.

Abbott, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 01:57 (eighteen years ago)

16 IlXors in the uppermost percentile, 32 in the others. Based on this 33% of ILXors are smarter than 90% of ILXors.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 05:51 (eighteen years ago)

Though the smart ones are overrepresented here, because obviously the smarter the are the more likely you'll be able to answer a poll.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 05:54 (eighteen years ago)

interesting...the math doesnt seem to work out.

deeznuts, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 05:54 (eighteen years ago)

"the smarter you are"

Tuomas, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 05:57 (eighteen years ago)

we could draw the conclusion that 66% of ILX thinks it's much smarter than it is.

or is that too obvious to even say out loud?

darraghmac, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

that seems low darraghmac!

mark s, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

ilx is not a humble place, either!

Maria, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

hurrah!

mark s, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Now if this is not a bell curve, someone is fooling themselves. Right?

it should be a straight horizontal line, dumbass

ken c, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

feel like we need some kind of empirical ILX intelligence test to decide this once and for all

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 28 February 2011 22:47 (fourteen years ago)

feel like we need some kind of empirical ILX intelligence test to decide this once and for all

Totally down for (helping to) run this! - (anonymous) essays, maths qs, stuff like that. Blind double-marking adjudication process. Could be really cool?

Gravel Puzzleworth, Monday, 28 February 2011 22:57 (fourteen years ago)

Nabisco OTM

La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 28 February 2011 22:59 (fourteen years ago)


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