I'm highly intelligent

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OK, clickbait title.

How much do you think about how intelligent you are (or aren't)? What's the view like from where you are? Would you choose to be different?

I've never tested but guess I'm about 125-130. It's a weird level: like being the best sports person in high school. Enough to make it an important part of one's identity growing up (well, mine. Not cool, but we're all anonymous here), but not rare enough to be genuinely noteworthy or impressive to anyone else. I think I'd choose to be much smarter if I could, out of curiosity or vanity, but I also think it might be quite a lonely life up there.

Interestingly, their study found that lower-intelligence subjects overestimated their rank a lot, while the higher ones underestimated theirs a little.

It was a study of Cornell students so “low-intelligence” is all relative.

Thanks- I didn’t realise that - It’s very interesting. I’ve found this effect to exist in real life too.

I think there is a big difference in being intelligent and being clever. My son got 145 in a Mensa test at school but did not do very well academically, he now owns 3 businesses. I would not say I’m particularly intelligent but I’m street savvy and very switched on. Also owning a couple of businesses.

This in itself makes you very clever.

Here is the link:

www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/iq_norms.shtml

Back in the day, I joined Mensa with an IQ of 148. I doubt it's anywhere near that nowadays considering I've recently left my car keys in the fridge twice and booked a weekend break for the wrong year.

Mine came out as 125 last time I took a test. I was in gifted & talented at high school, which basically meant we had to do harder classes and went on the occasional team building day and uni visit.

Basically it built me up to think I was something special and would do well in life if I worked hard. What a disappointment that was.

People are clever in different ways. How do you define intelligence.

I was a Mensa member as a teenager but IQ is not a conversation I would ever have with anyone these days. It's not very interesting, tbh. It's what you do and how you do it that matter.