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).)

Did you read my comment? You'd better try again :-)

Perhaps emotional intelligence also matters and they don't put sufficient thought into influencing prior to and then precisely how to land their arguments. It's about rather more than the Mensa score.

For example, well VC, I understand that x will cost a little money to implement but if it rewards research for a few, then others will follow and there will be a greater impact on the bottom line. Preparing then ground, engaging sympathy for your proposal, working on others around the decision maker, etc. Softer skills persuade reception of the evidence.

Money has never been my driver either, I have just happened to make it. But I do find academics who constantly whinge that they aren't highly enough rewarded when they are intellectually cleverer than bankers and lawyers rather tiresome. Particularly when they aren't winning bids or publishing world class papers/monographs.

I don't need to "try again". No need for that.
If you don't want to answer, don't.

I don't think common sense and putting together furniture are necessarily the same thing. I'm terrible at it but I don't think I lack common sense. Some people are good at DIY and others aren't. Don't think it's linked to intelligence or lack of

I've worked with many highly intelligent people who had no common sense at all. Similarly I have worked will ill educated people (not to be confused with lack of intelligence) that just walk in, assess the situation and crack on, achieving the end game quickly.

There is the academic version of stuff and then the reality and how you achieve the end game, what is your take on this?

I think very high intelligence, and/or people choosing to use this intelligence in a useful way, is quite rare.

I think I am in an ok place now, but have struggled a lot at times in my adult life.

I drive, yes. Didn't find it difficult to learn but wasn't anything that came super naturally to me either. I don't like driving, that could be one reason :-)

I love to learn, can spend time with maths books just for fun (not my area and I wish I knew more). I think I just like many others had to 'learn to learn' too late, since everything was so easy when I was at school. It can definitely test my patience when something doesn't come easy to me!

Yet you complained upthread that you're schooling focused not enough on exam success.
So, you're being very contradictory.

It's very interesting that you interpret some of the questions as attempts to push you down or find holes in what you're saying.

From my perspective, people are challenging you by making quite reasonable points, and for some reason, you are reacting quite defensively towards those. You started a thread called "ask me anything" but then quickly got irritated by some of the questions and said that you wouldn't engage with them. Plus you seem to be assuming that other people are annoyed or provoked, when they perhaps just disagree with you or consider some of your basic premises to be flawed.

It simply isn't the case that we can't have a discussion about high intelligence. It could be a very interesting discussion indeed. But I lost interest a bit when you fell back on that tired old trope of claiming that it is your high intelligence that causes you difficulties when interacting with other people - to me, that just smacks of a lazy mind that is distinctly lacking in curiosity and the capacity for self reflection.

Ohhhh, snap!! Also late diagnosed Audhd and dyslexic! Has my 'intelligence' helped me? Goodness knows- when I was an Assistant Head i did seem to find it easier to explain / understand all the government bollocks but now I'm medically retired, surviving off a pension & PIP whilst raising my 14 year old daughter alone....isn't quite as useful 😁.....I'm bloody good at a pub quiz tho!

I am interested in what your field is, for a good reason. You have mentioned several times that you ‘get’ things more quickly than your colleagues, that you know immediately what the ‘right’ answer is in a work context and have to wait for people to catch up. You’ve also mentioned someone telling you the ‘wrong’ answer in a job interview.

Now, if you are talking about knowing the answer to a maths or physics question, you might well be right, that you are objectively right and they are objectively wrong. But as someone who has bemoaned the lack of understanding of nuance by apparently less gifted people, do you understand that in professional contexts, the ‘correct’ answer might not be the right one? That there might be very good business, reputational or societal reasons why your correct answer isn’t the best one in all cases?

Are you, in fact, very black and white in your thinking, to the exclusion of nuance and other equally intelligent approaches?

I probably shouldn’t have quoted you as I agree, common sense and Ikea flat packs are not connected 😂 It’s more of a standalone statement.

Yep. I did an IQ test a long time ago and it was 128. Then I got long Covid and I feel half asleep most of the time. Did an IQ test recently and it was only a bit over 100.

I find this fascinating in a bizarre way.

You are skipping what I consider a lot of the more interesting questions posted.

I would love to know why. They aren't of interest to you? They hit a nerve? Or you don't have a response?

Are you intelligent enough to realise that the reason people are frustrated with your AMA is due to the avoidance of what people actually finding interesting?

Are you intelligent enough to understand why so many posters have asked about autism?

Are you also intelligent enough to realise that being a highly intelligent person with autism isn't something to view negatively?

Whether you are autistic or not and it's none of my business anyway, is irrelavant to these questions.

The language change as your posts progress is also interesting. People called you on your ability to communicate and you softened your language to make it appear more casual in your last 3 posts. Is that a conscious decision?

I'm not trying to catch you out just a tad bewildered at why start a discussion about this when you then avoid so much of the proposed discussion?

It's clear there are a lot of intelligent people on this thread (and not necessarily the ones which reference their IQ). I've far more questions for them because they are open to engagement and actual conversation.

Surely with your intelligence, you can see where I'm coming from?

If IQ is such a very small part of it, then why have a society that is based entirely on IQ in the first place?

I have changed my mind on this one-

How would I know? I think we can be sure that things will change, with developing medical/technological research etc, but I have no idea what that might be.

I try to keep an open mind about a lot of things I am not confident about.

Did you get put up a year when you were at school? Does high intelligence affect your mental health?

I am sorry I haven't been able to respond to all questions - there are simply too many. Will try to get back to this but have to go soon.

Are you drunk?

With a high IQ, do think your EQ suffers?
There is often thought to be a correlation between high IQ and neurodivergent behaviour.

Also - are there any conspiracy theories you actually think are true?

Yup this is my experience. High intelligence means very little really in most situations.

Although …

What is the meaning of life?

(Looks like it’s still half-term …)

The fact it is a bow tie is pivotal. The ( sub) OP did not state bow tie, therefore all the information was not available.

I think the problem with this thread is that OP is deeply unhappy with herself and seeking external validation.
It odd in the circumstances that she doesn’t state her IQ score, I’m wondering what the reality is of her career.
Really don’t want to be unkind but don’t know what to say….
Perhaps she needs to concentrate on more on other aspects of her of her identity?

It is possible when it is an occasional event. I would argue that it is much more difficult when it is a recurrent pattern. Getting a slight hint that you are wrong once - ok. More than that - increasingly difficult. So it is often easier not to say anything.

I would like to see a bow on top of their head. I think it would look very cute 😊