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

[ChurchOfGodBear]

IQ scores are like golf scores, right?

...Right...?

You know who I would ask about that?

@Brad Watson_Miami

 

[Phil Ken Sebben]

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Can confirm, and I even dabble in MtG. I lack a sausage, though, and I'm of the firm opinion that a woman should know her place. In my case, that was in a room far, far away. One not filled with buncha smug neckbeards.

I recall MENSA in my country having some kind of Internet forum where members and, um, admirers/wannabes could congregate to talk about all the deep shit. I only visited a couple of times, and they did have some interesting discussions, but mostly it was just condensed ackchyually and people asking how to ace the test.

And the problem with those places is you get the pseudo-intellectuals like Jimbo who, as you put it, ackchyually everything and wind up trying to make it all about themselves then continue to argue from a point of weakness until everybody dogpiles them and tells them to shut the fuck up because they're wrong and nobody cares.

I know this'll likely result in more powerlevel for you if you choose to answer me, but I'm genuinely curious to know what you scored on that test.

It's okay if someone asks, right? (rarely happens, too!)

Yeah like I care about internet points. Got 98% on the language and 99% on the spacial / object one. They said that if you didn't know, don't answer the question and just move onto the next one because bad answers counted against you or something.

The language test was a lot of "if A is like B then C is closest to...." and give you four choices I believe. The object / spacial one was all about things like "complete this sequence" and "which cube when opened matches the one shown". Like I said you needed at least 98% on one test to pass and they'd count whichever one was highest.

Based on what I saw, there were a lot of people masturbating over the fact that this proved they were smart and more often would say things like, "well I scored 100% on the logic portion and you didn't so I'm right and you aren't!" And outside of that room, nobody cared.

 

[TowinKarz]

Everyone is really good at something....

The problem is, "smart people" are really good at taking standardized logic tests.

 

[Kroster]

I just wanted to pop in and say all the people who claim they know their IQ but have never sat down with an actual trained IQ tester professional and taken it that way have no idea what their real IQ is. It has to be done with a trained person one on one. All the online tests are about as valid as diagnosing yourself as OCD or schizo without ever seeing a psychologist because you read some shit on tumblr and thought it would be cool to be "mentally ill". Plus even with all that shit IQ is only a rough estimate we don't have the tools to accurately measure a persons intelligence because that's super fucking complicated.

What if my mom diagnosed me as a genius?

 

[X68000]

What if my mom diagnosed me as a genius?

never doubt a mother's wis dom.

 

[NiggoPls]

Spoiler: More

Spoiler: BONUS

What annoys me the most about the bonus pic is that his inane drivel got more than 0 likes.

 

[DatBepisTho]

I wonder if anyone has ever told them that someone with a high IQ could be a dumbfuck when it comes to common sense and vice versa... I'd like to see the reeing it'd cause.
I mean, different types of intelligence is why the whole IQ thing is kind of tricky; you might be a genius with equations and engineering but not understand why your hard-boiled egg exploded after you peeled and microwaved it.

 

[X68000]

What annoys me the most about the bonus pic is that his inane drivel got more than 0 likes.

my favourite part is misuse of i.e. in a situation he should have used e.g.

 

[Cosmos]

I love it when smartasses get blown the fuck out like this.

 

[Darwin Watterson]

I have an IQ of ten million, but you don't see ME bragging about how I've graduated valedictorian from both Harvard and Yale at the same time, because I was secretly enrolled at both under two different identities.

 

[Pikimon]

It's highly debated lol. We teach 9 to the basic psych classes. It used to be 7 but we separated inter/intrapersonal and added music.

It's a fascinating field to be sure, and I'm glad that research is going into it.

 

[Monika H.]

That's pretty old, but this guy used to be the poster boy for the whole euphoric fedora neckbeard super-intelligent atheists

 

[Cake Farts]

What’s interesting is how these intellectuals all cluster around very particular subjects people deem to be “smart” (e.g quantum physics, philosophy, etc. etc.). Most of those fields are as old as dirt and have very little new info to discover, and at the very core, are basic fundamentals of even bigger subjects (quantum physics basically is groundwork for how atoms can interact and philosophy questions basic morals). Funny. How smart they claim to be, yet, they cling desperately to subjects other smart people have already built the path for.

I mean come on, they teach you in highschool English that research papers should be 90% your original content and not stuff from other people. Why not trek paths unknown?

Anyways,

Spoiler: Bullshit

Also I found this fitting:

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[Guy Smiley]

That's pretty old, but this guy used to be the poster boy for the whole euphoric fedora neckbeard super-intelligent atheistsView attachment 380327 View attachment 380328

Wow. I've NEVER been this kind of person, but literally everything about that image makes me want to track him down, grab his hands, and smack him in the face with them while yelling, "Quit hitting yourself! Quit hitting yourself!"

 

[X68000]

Let me tell you about my experience in MENSA. One day, I was just minding my own business eating a breakfast rich in DHA and Omega 3 fatty acids, when some brainlet with only a 145 IQ comes up to me.

"Friendly salutations, X68000" he says, "I've discovered two plus two is not four, but it is in fact three point nine nine nine nine... you get the idea."
"Hm, I must say that you make a compelling statement Albert, but it's provably false."

I could tell that the insertion of 'provably' there definitely ruffled his feathers, so to speak. So we spent the morning debating and drawing extremely complex equations on the board, covering everything from the indefinite integral to the heaviside step function and discrete cosine transform. It looked like I was on my last leg, but I had a trump card up my sleeve... I offered to continue my proof later, but I left him just with a pair of marbles I'd had in my sleeve. "Keep them for now, Albert, and I'll have my proof at the end of the day."

I left him to ponder the significance of the pair of cat's eye marbles whilst I prepared for lunch—the MENSA-mandated carrots, sturgeon eggs, and brain coral from the official diet handbook. Albert of course sat in the designated thinkchair near the Wall of Dictionaries, and I could see him flipping through the pages of every one of them he could get his hands on (putting his 600-words-per-minute reading speed to the test, as I could tell!) "What could it mean? The two marbles..."

Later that evening, after a dinner of paint thinner and peanut butter fudge, I met with Albert again. This time, I was to complete my proof.

"X68000. Surely one of the greatest minds here hasn't given up on a simple proof... or have you~?"

I merely placed two more marbles in his outstretched hand. "How many do you have, Albert?"

His face turned pale. The richness of seeing his arrogance crumple and drain before me was enough to spread on a hearty buttermilk biscuit, and I did so while I waited for him to answer.

"F-four..."

"Two plus two is four, Einstein-kun~"

I tilted his chin up and tenderly kissed his lips, before absconding into the night. Later that week, he proposed to me. We've been married for six years.

 

[Darwin Watterson]

Richard Feynman had an IQ of 121 (I believe) and he went on to become a respected NASA scientist and Physicist. Point is, anyone who thinks IQ means your God's gift to the world you need to self reflect a bit.

On the other end of the spectrum, Bobby Fischer had an IQ of like 180 or some shit, and he was a raving loon.

 

[diana]

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.

Never said I agree with this model, most psychologists don't. I believe in multiple intelligences and their importance, this model just so happens to be the most popular. The original proponent of multiple intelligences was a developmental psychologist, Howard Gardner who studied the brain and it's development/degradation over time.

But I think you don't quite understand what a psychologist is, which is ok because frankly no one really does lol.
It's just a huge blanket term for us all. We do study the brain, bio-psych and neuro-psych study the anatomical functions, clinical does psychological disorders and so on. I think people tend to confuse us and neurologists and counselors, neurologists are doctors who diagnose and treat direct mutations/issues with a brain (usually caused by a tumor or injury) that affect everyday function, counselors provide therapy to people. Psychologists research and test, we are basically lab monkeys with permission to counsel people.

If you are legitimately interested in the topic, I suggest reading this link which actually gives a good overview and reason behind each intelligence and includes a few more while not being an entire study.

 

[DrJonesHat]

My favorite subset of these people are the ones who insist they know more about a creative work than the creator themselves. I recall when Five Nights at Freddie's was popular, some dude made a video saying the last game in the series was "wrong" because it didn't conform to his theories about it. He was told that the series is whatever the author says it is, and got BTFO.

 

[Monika H.]

Never said I agree with this model, most psychologists don't. I believe in multiple intelligences and their importance, this model just so happens to be the most popular. The original proponent of multiple intelligences was a developmental psychologist, Howard Gardner who studied the brain and it's development/degradation over time.

But I think you don't quite understand what a psychologist is, which is ok because frankly no one really does lol.
It's just a huge blanket term for us all. We do study the brain, bio-psych and neuro-psych study the anatomical functions, clinical does psychological disorders and so on. I think people tend to confuse us and neurologists and counselors, neurologists are doctors who diagnose and treat direct mutations/issues with a brain (usually caused by a tumor or injury) that affect everyday function, counselors provide therapy to people. Psychologists research and test, we are basically lab monkeys with permission to counsel people.

If you are legitimately interested in the topic, I suggest reading this link which actually gives a good overview and reason behind each intelligence and includes a few more while not being an entire study.

I know that's not directed at me, but I'll give it a look if that's okay with you.

 

[Cake Farts]

My favorite subset of these people are the ones who insist they know more about a creative work than the creator themselves. I recall when Five Nights at Freddie's was popular, some dude made a video saying the last game in the series was "wrong" because it didn't conform to his theories about it. He was told that the series is whatever the author says it is, and got BTFO.

Was it MatPat? That’s how MatPat usually acts. Speaking of MatPat, apparently he scored a perfect score on the SAT and graduated from an Ivy League (in theatre lol), but what use is any of that when his income comes from clickbait game theories? Plus there’s that infamous incident when he gave the Pope a steam key to Undertale.

Smh, all of these people with their heads in their asses about how smart they are and they aren’t even doing productive shit.