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).)

One of the MENSA tests has no words, so did you score better in that one?

What is hydrolock, and how would you explain it to someone who has no interest in it, and is a bit thick?

What questions did you expect people to ask you?

But doesn't @OtterlyAstounding have a point on this one? Isn't the world of academia impacted in several ways by trans issues?

I outlined some of those ways earlier today at 11.29

A 1% intelligence means that if you live in a teeny tiny town of 5000 people there will be 50 people at least as clever as you. That seems like it shouldn’t be too hard to find people to talk to. The posters with IQs in the 150s and 160s, if those are all from actual administered tests not Internet ones, might find it harder to find people of similar IQ, but I do think shared interest plus enough of a spark (which might partly arise from quick thinking) goes further than being in the same percentile.

Mine is about 150, I have had to fight hard to gain common sense and am arguably still lacking in it. Most people only have their IQ measured if they are struggling at school for some reason, true for me and also for my partner who I think was about 130 but who ‘gets’ lots of things I don’t get, and I don’t feel any intelligence difference between us. I do get frustrated by people who are lacking in both intelligence and empathy, I think either one can compensate a lot for the other in terms of clicking with people or comprehending the important parts of a situation.

People will make comments like 'wow how did you get that so quickly', for example. Or comment on the fact that I know quite a lot in quite different areas (societal, current affairs) and ask 'how I know that'. I've read books, made connections, remembered them, kept thinking about them etc. Apparently more than most other people.

Given you are an academic, what is your specific area of expertise?

This feels pretty meaningless OP. I did brilliantly at school and went to Cambridge- I consider myself pretty intelligent but I can’t think that I would have any significant insights to give to the readers of Mumsnet. I loved school because there were rules and I found it all pretty effortless and once I found a fulfilling career in my late 20 s I was able to use my intelligence and expertise in that. I don’t suffer fools but I’m a teacher so have to be flexible in my interactions. I just don’t really see the point of your post.

Wow the grandiosity you must have to believe you’re so highly intelligent that you need/should start an AMA thread is truly breathtaking

I could only speak as I find (or have found).

Are you Adrian Monk?

I know that one reason is that people don't like being told that they are wrong, even if they know/realise they are wrong, even if the person saying something is as careful as possible. That is one reason why I sometimes don't feel that I can offer advice - 'kill the messenger'.

(I had a job interview once where I was told something that was factually wrong. It would have been better for me to pretend that they were right, but I didn't. My heart wasn't in the role anyway, I've pretended in other situations.)

I'm no expert and haven't researched it so could be entirely wrong as anecdotal evidence only.

I think there are two main contributors:

1. A busy mind - so many other thoughts, interests and theories which cannot easily be shut off to focus solely on the task at hand. A brain which naturally links thinks to so many abstract ideas which sre interesting and the urge to pursue those thoughts.

2. Lack of control - intelligence allows people to naturally control so many aspects of their life - academic success, work, problem solving, negotiation etc.
   In contrast, you can't control other drivers on the road, their split second decisions or poor habits which have an impact on your safety etc.

It's for the same reason that highly intelligent people really struggle more thsn average with a serious illness or marraige breakdown. They can't control the outcome, which is something they have become do accustomed to in many other facets of their life.

Do you think it has an impact on your mental health?

Does anyone else find this thread a bit strange when there's a parallel thread running by a women who's husband is having a manic episode and convinced he's super intelligent? Was this posted by the husband?

Please out of interest what is the career you find fulfilling? tia

OP are you actually an AI? I ask this because I find some of your grammar a bit AI-y.

I'm trying to reconcile all the different claims you're making.

You self-censor so as not to appear overwhelming clever. Despite this, people are constantly noticing and remarking on how well informed you are... and despite how well informed you are, you have no view on the trans debate - just one example - an area where I feel, as an academic, you should have some first-hand knowledge and experience.

I think the fact that you have invited the fantastic word thickitude shows real intelligence. Far more exciting than anything else I have seen.

If I met you, how would I 'know' that you were allegedly much more intelligent than both me and the majority of other humans?

And how do you 'know' that you are? Other than by taking mensa style tests.

Completely understand the wish not to stand out in every direction :-) Yes, I'm female too. There are many women in my field so I'm not unique in that respect.

I don't think I am underestimated now, and I don't know if I have ever felt underestimated (apart from in early jobs - I look and looked very young so it was assumed I couldn't do anything), but I know that there are a lot of studies on women especially being underestimated, so it has probably happened.

Fingers crossed for you - hope you smash it!

A lot of your responses sound very much how my daughter would respond to the same questions. She is very intelligent, and autistic.

Everything you say suggest that you'd do well working ion your emotional intelligence. Put yourself in other people's shoes, be kind and patient. The most intelligent people I know either are on the spectrum in which case they do struggle with relationships or they are amazing all rounders and are very very modest.

I do feel that I should do the best I can to help the world, but I think that is more based to my personality actually.

Anyone who is really that intelligent would find better things to do with their time on a Sunday morning than boast on MN.