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).)

Are you married to @AutismPosts ?

Ok thanks. So you don't find yourself caught up in answering any particular types of questions because you can predict the final posts ? Sorry but I don't follow you.

You have no interest in any particular subjects?

Asking if you’re autistic isn’t offensive op. Many people are.

Emotional intelligence isn’t just about crying at sad things.

That’s a surprisingly superficial answer. One might think a highly intelligent person would have more observations than that.

Also not applicable in New Zealand. C’mon, OP, why don’t you really lean into an answer instead of spouting dull generalities and dazzle us with what that super-intelligence looks like on full beam?

I also have a high IQ. As a child other kids bored me. I hated school. I have a deep emotional intelligence. Easily frustrated by others.

OK, that made me laugh, although I do very much feel for that poster, who is doing a great job in the situation.

That wasn't such a silly question as it may seem. Courtesy of AI: Studies suggest that cat owners may, on average, have higher IQ scores and higher levels of education compared to dog owners. Research indicates that "cat people" are often more introverted, open-minded, sensitive, and non-conformist, which are traits sometimes associated with higher intelligence. As a cat-owner, I concur 😁

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Now that's interesting! Genuinely.

It would have been much better, OP, if you had titled your thread "I score very highly in IQ assessments, AMA."

IQ assessments are a metric enabling rigorous comparisons along a few crudely operationalised dimensions of intelligence. Intelligence itself is something much broader, even encompassing psychological characteristics as well as a wider range of neurological capacities than those that we currently understand. I wouldn't call someone highly intelligent based on their IQ score any more than I would call them beautiful (or even healthy) based on their BMI.

I find it very unusual that someone who is a lecturer would feel so wedded to their IQ score. It is usually valued most by people who feel that they have no means of demonstrating to others that they are clever, or of reassuring themselves that other people see them as clever. Once people have qualifications and well-regarded professional employment they tend not to care so much about IQ

What type of house did you grow up in?

Do you watch reality TV?

Good point. This is what we need to know

Do you read widely?

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Have you ever considered using your high intelligence to learn how to use the semi-colon?

I agree with others: you’re claiming to be of high intelligence but there’s no actual evidence of it in the way you write or the points you make. Are you perhaps very bored and attempting to wind up Mumsnet?

Surely ‘everyone’ knows that the answer to this is 42 :)

I don’t play any instrument well at all.

Trans women – I haven’t followed the debate enough/read up enough to have a relevant view.

Fivetriangulartrees: ‘What other parts of your identity are important to you? What do you have to fall back on if your intelligence goes?’
I try to be kind, helpful and supportive. That’s probably what I find most important. I have been told that I am a good listener.

OtterlyAstounding: ’Do you think that IQ tests are genuinely meaningful indicators of actual intelligence, beyond a very rough and narrow estimate?’
I think they can be helpful, especially for people with spiky profiles or disabilities, but I don’t think they should be treated as gospel

GeneralPeter: ‘Intelligence currently gives huge advantages in many life outcomes. What do you think AI will do to this?’
This is an interesting question. I don’t have a good answer but it will clearly change things.

Given that you're supposedly highly intelligent, I'm surprised that your reading comprehension isn't a bit better.

My post categorically wasn't making the case that highly intelligent people are socially difficult. Quite the opposite, in fact, I was making the point that many highly intelligent people don't struggle to connect with others at all. I was therefore curious to know if you ascribed your self-confessed difficulties in connecting with other people to your intelligence or some other factor.

Personally, I don't think that people who are highly intelligent have difficulties in connecting with other people because of their intelligence at all. However, I do think that a subsection of highly intelligent people who struggle to connect with others for other reasons often find it more comfortable to tell themselves that it is because of their high intelligence. I guess adopting this explanation releases them from the need to confront a much more troubling reality.

As to my second question, there is an irony in starting a thread called "ask me anything" if it is only your intention to answer the questions that don't make you feel uncomfortable. You're right,of course, you don't need to share all thoughts with me, or with anyone. But then why start the thread?

It was a perfectly reasonable question imo , and I stand by the fact that it simply wouldn't occur to you to start a thread like this if "being highly intelligent" wasn't an important part of your identity. Whether you want to acknowledge that or not.

It would have been much better, OP, if you had titled your thread "I score very highly in IQ assessments, AMA."

That would have been the intelligent approach.

I don't think you are coming across as arrogant or superior at all.

This seems obvious to me. We don't wear ties around our necks (under the chin) but around our collar (where neck meets shoulder) so this should be the same for giraffes.

If it was at the top of the neck it would drag on the ground when eating grass or tangle in branches when eating from trees so not practical in that position anyway. It also looks unprofessional imo and if I were interviewing a giraffe with a tie at the top of their neck I would assume they were a bit dim.

Can giraffe hooves even reach the top of their neck to put it on or is it a 'lick your own elbow' situation?? 🤔

Do you have at least your fair share of common sense, too? Because the cleverest people I know, academically speaking (PhDs) often seem decidedly short of it!

I can relate. I would rather get compliments about being friendly or helpful :-)

Weirdly they don't do CSQ tests.