I am highly intelligent, ask me anything

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Using standard IQ scales/assessments I am highly intelligent. I have also done some research into high intelligence. Being highly intelligent has advantages and drawbacks. Ask me anything :-)

(Just to preempt some comments: No, I don’t think intelligent people are better human beings than other people. I think qualities such as being kind are more important for example. No, intelligent people are not always ‘better for society’, there is some evidence, for example, that really highly intelligent people carry out proportionally somewhat more crimes (white collar). No, I don’t look down on less intelligent people (sometimes I envy them), but it can obviously be a bit difficult to connect if you have very different frames of reference. No, intelligence does not have any direct links to social skills (positive or negative).)

Why do you think you have a “weaker” inner world? That’s not related to intelligence.

I was a highly intelligent child and young adult, but after a few seizures (which affected my memory) and a head injury, I’m pretty sure if I had to take an IQ test again it wouldn’t be in the genius level any more. I find it effortful to learn things now and have poor attention to detail. Yet my inner world is just is vibrant and my thoughts and feelings just as valid as before.

Many years ago I knew a real cleverclogs. He belonged to MENSA, had a high IQ (I forget exactly how high, odd because he never missed an opportunity to mention it). He was bright, for sure - yet also extraordinarily thick in so many ways. He had no emotional intelligence whatsoever, and there were undoubtedly shades of narcissism. Also, sat on his ar*e and went nowhere with formal education, or a steady career.

OP only wants to debate intelligence, society, human interactions. Won’t say her academic area but it’s clearly not STEM.

What are the “standard IQ tests/assessments” that you reference in your original
post, and is there a reason why you won’t answer the posters wanting to know your IQ score or if you are a member of Mensa?

This is a myth that shows up a lot on here. I’m an academic, so everyone I work with has a PhD, and across all the institutions I’ve worked at in three countries, there’s as much variation in common sense among those who have PhDs as there is in any other set of people. The ivory tower thing is long gone. These days to function as an academic you don’t float about tweedily, occasionally dropping off the illegible MS of your new book to OUP, you have a lot of admin responsibility as well as teaching and research, and are often managing postdocs and researchers and administering large grants as PI, so you need management skills, plus the ability to do outreach and disseminate your research outside academia.

Yes, everyone would have the ability to create an ok life for themselves if our school system was less focused on passing specific exams at specific times. Also agree on valuing friendship most.

🤣 wooooooo

I think he's male. Females don't often refer to themselves as "dicks". I may be wrong of course.

I’m fairly clever and it’s nice to meet people who are more intelligent than I am as I appreciate a different perspective that I wouldn’t come up with myself. Do you feel obliged to do something to make a difference in the world with your intelligence?

Would you rather fight one massive duck or 1000 tiny ducks?

I think you are out of date with the school system. Most schools use a range of assessment types to be fairer, not just exams.

This isn't really an ask me anything thread though is it. It's actually quite narrow in the discussion.

I'm going to be pondering this question all day now!

I am ok that you think that. I don't think I am more special than anyone else. An AMA focusing on yourself in this way will obviously be a strange 'conversation' and, perhaps by necessity, come across as boastful. That is one reason why such conversations won't happen in real life.

It's an "ask me anything" and "I might answer if I feel like it".

Perhaps you could get a job in the school system and improve it?

Is this ‘Ask me anything’, or Ask me something I may answer ?

Would people say you have a good sense of humour or are quick witted?

Yes, it's very obvious. I'm surprised they continue to make such sweeping and ill informed comments.

I've just had a fleeting image of the OP rolling around the floor inside a giant paper bag trying to tear a hole in it.

do you consider emotional intelligence an important factor in defining and measuring intelligence? The ability to read situations and people quickly and offer solutions to problems.

Some of the brightest people I know can do this. Some who have taken IQ tests and scored highly are not the brightest. Some can do both - and these people are rare. I just think it’s impossible to define intelligence - it means something to one person and something entirely different to others.

Absolutely. That is why conversations like these won't happen in real life. Sometimes anonymous discussion online can provide good perspectives on things that you wouldn't discuss in real life though.

@MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack snap!

One massive one. You could keep an eye on her better and use a weapon to good effect.

That sounds like fun!

So, OP, you said that you started this thread to get insights into how others think of you. So, what insights have you gathered from the thread so far?

And how would you rate your level of self awareness in general?