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

it had to happen

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

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

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

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

oh really? let's wait and see.

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

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

moley otm

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

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!

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.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

and kevin from chicago!

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

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STRANGE MATH.

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

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

damn we smart

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.

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

-- moley, Sunday, August 12, 2007

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.

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

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

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

"the smarter you are"

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?

that seems low darraghmac!

ilx is not a humble place, either!

hurrah!

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

it should be a straight horizontal line, dumbass

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

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?

Nabisco OTM