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Smartest man in the world possibly...
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The video offers nothing but a man telling the audience how smart he is. He offers no facts or theories. He is a self-proclaimed genius because he got lucky on an IQ test which, by the way, he fails to mention which one he completed. Is he a member of Mensa? He claims to be smarter than Einstein.
Hawking would wipe the floor with this guy.
my IQ is 185 and Im a member of Mensa. Trust me, this guy is not the smartest guy in the world. Far from it. You should go to a mensa convention..I swear, while all of them have high IQs, their common sense IQ is sorely lacking.
The only good thing about my mensa membership is various discounts i get on car insurance, mortgages, hotel rooms, etc. That's about it.
But a guy with a 190.....doesn't mean he's the smartest guy on earth. Far from it.
Edit: he does seem humble....so I give him props for that. That's a rarity.
People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.
IQ tests don't seem to show real intelligence.
I did fine on mine, more than average.
But most of the questions are just about insight, and that insight you can only get if you understand what it's about.
Ask someone from Congo to fill in an IQ test and they will get a very low score. Not because they are dumb, just because they don't understand the question and way to think about it.
I know if you do many IQ tests you get better at them because you know how the questions are formed and how to look for an answer.
There are even books to train on IQ tests because the questions are predictable and are all made in the same form.
So, I don't think scoring good on an IQ test actually shows you how smart you are. Neither does being a good speller or fluent talker, or making much money.
My IQ test came back Negative....
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lol nice
People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.
I've noticed that people who mention their high IQ score are almost always lacking something in their lives. Usually a high IQ score.
Nah. We tend to lack grace and social skills...
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I've never taken an IQ test so I have no idea where I'd stack up. I've also never met anybody who claims to have an above average or high score so I can't really give my personal account. I'm tempted to take Enigma's advice and go to one of these mensa meetings just to see for myself how smart these people really are.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
Mine was 141 though I took the test awhile ago and rushed through it to beat my brother. I would liek to take one down where I don't have something like that interferring.
Hold on Snow Leopard, imma let you finish, but Windows had one of the best operating systems of all time.
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The problem with IQ tests is that they are generally made by people that don't have a good background in mathematics, so that they are limited to simple albeit calculation intensive problems.
Many of the problems associated with higher mathematical reasoning aren't found in IQ tests: A good example would be analysis, which uses the concept of proving that the limit of difference tends to 0; you won't find anything like that on one of those IQ tests, however. What about inductive proofs, or combinatorial logic? Neither of them are really tested on IQ tests, yet both of them require intellectual faculties.
IQ tests are really just I-peen measures made by psychologists, since they have nothing better to do and nothing to contribute to the world.
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Oh aye, I'm no slouch on the IQ score myself. I do very well on such tests because my mind perceives connections that most have to work through the problem to reach. Guess what happens, I breeze through high school like it was nothing. Then I get slammed in college because I never had before been presented problems complex enough to require actual work. In a very real sense, someone significantly duller than I had a major leg up on me in that scenario. I'm catching back up to where I should be now, but it required me relearning concepts I never had to use before.
There are a number of striking similarities between how the human mind works and that of a computer. You can have the best CPU out there on the market, but if the other software/hardware systems are not up to par, it's nothing but a waste.
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Notice how he was beaten as a child. I think this what children today are missing. A good beating will wise a kid up in a hurry.
IQ scores can be improved through study.
IQ test offers nothing but showing how well you can deduce logic. And Einstein never took an IQ test, he died before it even existed, so i dont know where they get their facts.
People can be brilliant in different areas, the people who come up with new discoveries are generally more on the creative side than the intellect.
Hawking would wipe the floor with us all.....collectively.
Daniel Paul 45min video can calculate/recite Pi (circle circumference divided by it's diameter) to 22,000 decimal places...
That's because he's autistic.
I never took an IQ test, it has never been offered to me, so I don't know how you people who have had one ever ended up taking it.
But I have taken the ACT (got a 34) and the ASVAB (98 though I'm not sure what that means, maybe I got a 98/100 on it, never really checked, just remember them all freaking out).
I don't think I'm smart though. I have a lot of trouble understanding people. They seem totally illogical to me and frustrate me a lot of the time. People seem to do what seems like the stupid thing to do to me more often than the smart thing. In other words, the world seems like a chaotic mad house that causes me a lot of anxiety. I've always felt that if I were "intelligent" then I would be able to make sense enough of it all to put my mind at ease. Not the case, not even nearly the case.
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The IQ test is by far the most notorious of all exams to predict "success." An individual's EQ is much more realiable than IQ.
Bill Gates, for example, attended an elite prep school in Seattle. His school was one of the first, if not the only at the time, to have a supercomputer. He and his friends basically took over this computer.
Moreover, I do not even think elite prep schools are sufficient for poor kids. What kids do over the summer, and different cultural immersions, are equally (some say more) important than education. Edit: over the summers and breaks, the wealthy kids usually travel and things. Exposure to a wide variety of different cultures, languages, etc. Btw! The most effective way to improve memory is to learn another language. That is, the ability to adapt, move, and be comfortable in different cultures or difficult situations. It is important for all of this to be done during an early age as well.
I have never taken the IQ test seriously, and I feel a sense of pity for those that attempt to wear their scores (usually exaggerated) as a badge. Mensa? LOL. Honestly, ha ha ha! Insecure people that "feel" they are smart, then "think" they are smart after taking an IQ exam and joining a pretentious organization. I mean, it is a mockery - really. He he.
Aside: It is also reminds me of Oppenheimer, whose ability to talk himself out of bad situations (such as when he attempted to poison his tutor at Oxford) or talk himself into a job (such as working on the atomic bomb) is more important than "intelligence." Many more people were more qualified than him. And, btw, Oppenheimer attended elite schools and his parents were wealthy. People smarter than him who were more qualified did not have the same cultural immersion or communication skills to ascend. I have actually been in his former house, believe it or not. I knew the owner (somewhat, it was my brother who really knew him), who later sold the house to his uncle (a doctor). My brother did not have anything to do with that transaction, but he knew him through business dealings.
Agree with you and had the same thoughts when I read this. *cough* it seems everything that happens a certain someone here is always telling us he has this or that or is this or that. If these people are so smart why do they spend hours each week on a MMO off topic forums. Usually a person who has a working life and family doesn't have time to spend on the internet claiming all sorts of BS.
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Don't worry, gnomexxx. There's nothing wrong with you and your intelligence is fine. You just have the same problem I've suffered with all of my life. The grim knowledge that most people are flat-out idiots.
Don't worry, gnomexxx. There's nothing wrong with you and your intelligence is fine. You just have the same problem I've suffered with all of my life. The grim knowledge that most people are flat-out idiots.
Maybe so, but a lot of times they seem a lot "happier" than me. I get pissed off at people just turning an eye to immorality or injustice. Then I think perhaps I worry too much. But honestly, I can't help it. It's like it's in my character to want to work to help and make things as equal as possible for people. I think maybe it's just a strong sense of noticing where there is injustice and what negatives can ultimately come from it. Not just noticing it, but feeling obligated to act as well.
Maybe I should become a priest. lol.
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In my experience, most people listen to priests for all the time it takes to get out of earshot, then they do whatever the hell they wanted to in the first place. It's not a particularly effective position for that purpose.
I might suggest law enforcement though. Their hands may be tied in some matters, but they are capable of making a significant difference in at least one aspect of human life.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Hemingway
Wow you watch that video and all you can talk about is if you are intelligent or not. LAUGHS. And that guy saying he is 185 again ROFL.
Don't worry, gnomexxx. There's nothing wrong with you and your intelligence is fine. You just have the same problem I've suffered with all of my life. The grim knowledge that most people are flat-out idiots.
Maybe so, but a lot of times they seem a lot "happier" than me. I get pissed off at people just turning an eye to immorality or injustice. Then I think perhaps I worry too much. But honestly, I can't help it. It's like it's in my character to want to work to help and make things as equal as possible for people. I think maybe it's just a strong sense of noticing where there is injustice and what negatives can ultimately come from it. Not just noticing it, but feeling obligated to act as well.
Maybe I should become a priest. lol.
I wouldn't say you have any lack of intelligence but here's how I see your problem. If you want to be an alpha male, you have to learn to take advantage of the problems you see, and If you want to be a politician you have to learn to ignore them. On the other hand, If you want to actually do something about them you have a very heavy cross to bear indeed. The strong will not help you and the powerful ignore you. The only time people seem to want to really work together and do the right thing is when a problem truly reaches crisis proportion.
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