Smart Guys/Gals - People who try way too hard to look smart

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X68000 said:
We could use less humblebrags/powerlevelling in this thread for making fun of people who think they're very smart. If you have to preface your post with "as a person with [high IQ/mensa/4.20 GPA]", you're already missing the point.
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I have an IQ of like 50 million and you don't see me bragging about it.
 
Typical Mensa member = guy who recites the entire table of organization and equipment for a mechanised infantry company in the 1980's, just to let you know that he has been in the army.
 
If anything we could pretty much lump in everything from the rational wiki thread with this one, and it would all mesh perfectly.
 
My experience with IQ tests is misunderstanding and terror.

When I was in kindergarten, my days were an unstructured blur of fun. I'd play with blocks, finger-paint, that kind of thing.

One day we were told we were to be given an IQ test by the school psychologist. All I heard was the last word, and asked my classmates what that was. One of my more worldly colleagues said: "THEY'RE GONNA SEND YOU TO THE LOONEY BIN!" He proceeded to bend the class's ear about the cannibalistic horrors of the looney bin. (I'm not sure where he got this stuff. Maybe he watched the wrong grown-up horror movie.)

Most people cooperate with an IQ test. We held out.

Of course, the psychologist twigged to it immediately, and I'd like to tell you we were stone-faced and silent. But the truth is that inside of a minute, we were bawling: "Please don't send us to the looney bin!"

She reassured us that this was not the purpose of the test, and eventually we got round to taking it. If I did well or poorly on it, I never heard anything. I imagine my score was not that far from normal.

But to this day I twitch when someone talks about taking an IQ test.

Is this a rule to add to @AnOminous 's list?
 
neger psykolog said:
Depending on who you ask IQ tests don't really mean much. It's like getting a university degree or a high school diploma.
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The thing about IQ is that it can actually cause low self esteem in people who don't score high. So on the one hand, it makes overconfident morons who never try because they underestimate every challenge and on the other, it creates people who never bother to try because they think they overestimate every challenge. Either way, it just creates people who fail at life.
 
diana said:
What is most interesting is our societies obsession with IQ when there are multiple types of intelligence.
In the psych field, we identify 9: spatial, naturalistic, musical, logical-mathematical, existential, interpersonal, intrapersonal, bodily-kinesthetic, and linguistic. You can even take a quiz to see which you are highest in.
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That's just the most recent model of IQ, and it's reeks of "homeopathic remedy" at that, especially since IQ models are always designed by psychologists and not by anybody who actually studies the brain. Just look at how music is it's own category, but there are no other categories for painting, animation, acting, literature or anything like that. That's exactly the kind of weird outlier and simultaneous lack of consideration I'd expect from a model like this.
 
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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
That's just the most recent model of IQ, and it's reeks of "homeopathic remedy" at that, especially since IQ models are always designed by psychologists and not by anybody who actually studies the brain. Just look at how music is it's own category, but there are no other categories for painting, animation, acting, literature or anything like that. That's exactly the kind of weird outlier and simultaneous lack of consideration I'd expect from a model like this.
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:offtopic: Because dancing is on kinestesic intelligence, and painting is included on spatial intelligence, stuff like that.:offtopic:

Althought, now that I think about it, if you are going to include "dancing intelligence" into kinestesic, why not include music into logical-mathematical? It's kind of BS :mad:
 
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I think that this would count as discussing people.
 
A good rule derived from special ed: if someone is bragging about their IQ, they're even more of an asshole than the kids with brain damage. At least when the brain-damaged kids annoy you, you know they're not trying to do it on purpose.
 
P.F.H. said:
:offtopic: Because dancing is on kinestesic intelligence, and painting is included on spatial intelligence, stuff like that.:offtopic:

Althought, now that I think about it, if you are going to include "dancing intelligence" into kinestesic, why not include music into logical-mathematical? It's kind of BS :mad:
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Music isn't even a type of intelligence unto itself, it's a skill anyone with any of these intelligence types could do. Why wouldn't you need the bodily-kinestesic category to be good at music? You can't play an instrument without hand and eye coordination. What the fuck is the naturalist category, hunting and gathering?
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
Music isn't even a type of intelligence unto itself, it's a skill anyone with any of these intelligence types could do. Why wouldn't you need the bodily-kinestesic category to be good at music? You can't play an instrument without hand and eye coordination. What the fuck is the naturalist category, hunting and gathering?
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My mother has been a teacher for 20+ years and she has told me that indeed, we have multiple inteligences, I'm going to talk to her about this when I see her, maybe she knows more on the subject.

On the meantime, I've read a bit about this and apparently the multiple intelligences are relationed with specific areas on the brain (how can you tell which intelligences are your forte via 15-min internet test is beyond me)
For example, music intelligence comes from an area in the right hemisphere of the brain, so there is a part that is "dedicated" to it, and since music is an elemental part of our communication since millenia, it doesn't surprise me at all.

That goes to the question, dancing is as old as music... why don't we have an intelligence dedicated to it? why is it cluttered with sports? The creator of the theory, Howard Gardner said that intelligence is "autonomous clusters closely working together". It could be that a "Dancing intelligence" is just the mix of kinestesic and musical intelligence, but if that's the case, why isn't music the mix of logical mathematical and kinestesic or something?

Maybe scientists are just grabbing the muddy, tangled mass that is human intelligence and trying to separate and clasify its parts, even thought it was never meant to be tore apart, and thats why it seems so BS when you look at it that way. :thinkingemojay:
 
P.F.H. said:
On the meantime, I've read a bit about this and apparently the multiple intelligences are relationed with specific areas on the brain
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lolno, that is not how the brain works. There is no special lobe for each function, they all work in tandem together to achieve the same thing. The hippocampus is essential for memory, but it works by sending signals to the surrounding lobes, it is not a hard drive that writes, deletes and opens files contained to itself. Some areas are more important than others to certain tasks, but are not uniquely exclusive.

P.F.H. said:
For example, music intelligence comes from an area in the right hemisphere of the brain, so there is a part that is "dedicated" to it,
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lol "right hemisphere", he's talking about the right temporal lobe and even then, that's not how that works either.

P.F.H. said:
Maybe scientists are just grabbing the muddy, tangled mass that is human intelligence and trying to separate and clasify its parts, even thought it was never meant to be tore apart, and thats why it seems so BS when you look at it that way. :thinkingemojay:
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Howard's not a scientist, that is the reason why this smells like bullshit.
 
DavieCrockerJump said:
Tbh, the best way to get food is hanging around outdoor restaurants and sniping food from peoples plates after they've "finished". People are wasteful af.
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You can also make a deal with restaurants/supermarkets/delis. They cannot legally sell stuff beyond a certain amount of time after it's been made, so they throw out boxes of donuts/bagels/bread/salads/etc every day. Just ask them to not toss it out into the trash with the rest of the stuff, but to bag it separately and leave it on the stoop or something.
 
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