I am highly intelligent, ask me anything

[nolinkname]

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).)

It's quite possible they don't have potential in one area, but they might have a lot in another. I mean - I have no potential to be a professional athlete. I'm great at swimming, but no chance elsewhere. Academically, and as an academic, I can give you a great performance. I also have other talents which are far more practical.

I know as a young person my IQ was important to me because of how other other people valued it, applauded me for it, were proud of me. Kind of sad really.

These days, I value someone I can have coffee and chat with, nature, my pets, cooking, my book club and hiking way more. What brings me most satisfaction is when I have done some good towards someone else. The whole intelligence thing I never bring up and don't care about. There's so much more to life. I think we're limited due to the value put on children's academic achievement at the expense of everything else.

I'm probably autistic too. I find the people I click with are also almost certainly autistic.

You still aren't behaving here like an intelligent person.

I was involved with Mensa for years and met many friends through Mensa . I don't consider myself 'special' in any way.

I don't think it's a great idea to take to the internet and set yourself up as someone super-special.

It comes over as boastful.

Not a good way to behave and maybe your emotional intelligence isn't as high as it could be.

I think she'd probably consider her situation. Is she bending down to drink at the waterhole? Does she want to look chic for all those people in the jeep with cameras?

I've done a test and I'm a lot cleverer than you OP. Ask me anything you like.

I've been reading the responses in a male voice, I don't know why but something tells they are not female but as they've avoided that question who knows?

I'm still waiting to know if OP thinks transwomen are women

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Thank you! That's just such a wildly inaccurate claim.

Do you have a regional accent? If so, do people make assumptions about your intelligence? I ask because I have an RP accent and I find people assume I'm intelligent but I'm really quite thick.

In my opinion, genuinely highly intelligent people dont keep telling people about it

I know this, but thanks anyway....and yes I'm quite happy with my thoughts. Maybe this is what posters mean by emotional intelligence....

It's not in the spirit of AMA to ignore questions - the second A stands for anything!

And there's usually a bit of humour, on both sides so don't be a po-face😊

Is this AMA an exercise in finding out how long people will buy into someone’s claim of being super-intelligent when the responses being given appear to come from a person of completely ordinary intelligence?

Damn it. Now I am to.

😂

I am finding this question and conversation most interesting -
What was your education like as a social experience and do you remember being aware of higher ability and developing strategies as a child to manage the difference?
Were you higher ability within your family?

Can I ask you something then?

Which questions on Mumsnet are you most likely to answer? Which ones do you put most time and thought into?

It works, doesn't it?

@nolinkname I am not very intelligent at all, BBC A'Levels and dropped out of uni, albeit in 1978. Eventually I did my professional quals and then a Masters linked to them sonthere must be some kernels of intellect there.

However, I earnt 6 figures in the 80s/90s (City) and then again from about 2019 in academia (not an academic but am in the top 10 senior staff at my institution).

I have never been skint, yet I hear academics complain constantly about how hard up they are and how they have no agency with senior staff.

Genuinely, why do you think a thicko like me can earn well and have influence but many super intelligent people can't?

Comments like these were expected. People in general love to point out and try to make the case that highly intelligent people are socially difficult etc. I haven't seen any research indicating anything like that in a group of people who are equals. (Crude example, in a group of 5-year olds you were expected to play with you might stand out too, possibly as having poor social skills.)

People are different and that is ok. People have different social needs, some people struggle more with not being very similar to most other people than others do.

There is no need for you to try to hobby analyse me though and I don't feel the need to share all thoughts with you ;-) People do not only start threads about things that are the most important part of their identity.

My question re emotional intelligence is because although there is intelligence in the form OP is stating they have, EI is incredibly important. I'd argue being highly intelligent has facets of both.

Do you enjoy comedy? are there comedians that you particularly enjoy?

Do you ever doom scroll watching social media reels ?

Lucy Beaumont would be my guess.

It would have been nice if you could have told us what you think being intelligent means. Because anyone who points at an IQ test result and thinks it is in any way a measure of intelligence (which remains frustratingly undefined) might be considered to be not so bright.

Take an IQ text in Esperanto. Score 0. and then repost 😀

Base of neck obviously, but more importantly how would they tie it?!