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).)

How did you pay for all the postgraduate degrees?

Do you agree with the saying that if you’re the most intelligent person in the room, you’re in the wrong room?

I’d also like to know (as did a pp) if you believe trans women are women.

Do you lack common sense?

How do you channel your memory, or is that not possible? I have a great memory but for things like shark attacks, radio jingles, songs, etc not so much for educational things!

Would you say you're vain? Do you use beauty products? Have you had cosmetic surgery?

@NerdyBird Haven't watched High Potential.

Re other TV shows - I watch 1 % sometimes and don't get the last question every time, they are very difficult. There are other shows that I would probably do quite well on but I'm not interested. I am not sure why, I have had quite a lot of attention in other areas of my life (intelligence related ones being one of them) so prefer to stick to that.

Election - I vote tactically in the constituency I live. Getting a fairer society is my main aim. I find it shocking that in our 'civilised' society there are food banks, and a growing number of food banks, and so many people seem to think that 'everyone can make it' when life odds are so stacked against masses of people.

The thing is, I doubt people really think much about you at all. I’m not saying that to be cruel, just pointing out that your ‘high intelligence’ will be far more important to you than anyone else.

You’re not giving very clear or detailed descriptions of what it’s really like to experience the world as a highly intelligent person.

Is that because it’s just too hard to explain in a way that dum-dums like the rest of us can understand?

My eldest is highly intelligent, however he has no common sense.

do you have common sense, do you think the two are linked (intelligence and common sense)

Yet there are so many people on this thread trying to take the OP down a peg or two.

It’s MNs, very typical!

Yes, it was an official Mensa test in my second language, so I'd arguably have had an even higher score if I had understood all words ;-)

You are free to think whatever you want about me and anyone else writing here. It is not my life aim to come across as intelligent, rather the opposite probably, since it often leads to so much anger/annoyance and so many misunderstandings if I am myself completely.

What is your emotional intelligence like?

Well I meant people in real life really. When people interact with others in real life, they don’t tend to be dwelling much on their intelligence levels.
On every single thread on MN there are people trying to take others down a peg or two, intelligent or not!

Yes, based on it being easier to connect with people when you can be yourself. People generally become friends with people who are similar to themselves in many ways and that includes intelligence.

I have often debated that with my sons!

Not me. Though I think the tone of the thread has been set by the OP not appearing to have a great deal of emotional intelligence, judging by her replies, plus of course the fact that this is the internet. I mean, she could claim to have broken all the standard IQ tests, such is her brilliance, and actually be a lonely lorry driver who left school at 15, trolling from a lay-by near Felixstowe.

Do you think there is a link between high intelligence and narcissistic personality disorder? Are there links with high intelligence and other mental health conditions?

I don't necessarily mean when I explain things, but when someone else explains something and a group of people are learning it (trying to learn it). This can be in an education setting or in a work setting. I often get new information/ideas/concepts very quickly and have to wait for others to 'catch up'.

I think I'm a reasonable teacher. I have been very appreciated by many students at different levels, super clever ones as well as people who struggle, but who really want to learn.

@Nevermind17. Totally relate, I refuse to watch 1% club because of the fact the contestants don’t see the plainly obvious. Only connect we prefer as it’s varied, that combination of things that are in based and those that are knowledge, I’d be rubbish at mastermind though as I’m a jack of all trades knowledge wise. I have dc and one is very high in, the other “merely” above average (their dad my ex is highly intelligent yet stupid in equal measure)

How many times have you published in the top five journals in your field?

On an AMA asking the giraffe/tie question is usually a light-hearted way of seeing how someone engages socially. Calling it pointless comes across as dismissive, which slightly undercuts the point about not looking down on others.

I’d like you to answer the Only Connect question - how quickly do you complete the wall?

I've read a lot of research articles discussing the fact that many people struggle to find equal/good/fruitful human connections, so I believe it is a case for many, but obviously not to everyone.

Do you think you have a creative side? Do you have any creative hobbies?

Do you find it lonely? I’ve a Mensa tested IQ of 156 and it can be extremely lonely sometimes when so many people aren’t on my wavelength but it does make those connections I do make extremely strong. I get tired of dumbing down to fit in.

Also do you find it difficult to follow social patterns that the more averagely intelligent people get more easily ? I put my foot in it frequently.

I think this thread is quite an arrogant thing to do. If something is true, it doesn’t need to be stated, it speaks for itself…

My thoughts exactly.