It seems most likely that I’m average, just like you.
Technically I have a high IQ, but that is just a number. Besides that I consider myself decently, if not quite, smart. I recognize that I can come up with creative solutions to problems, but most importantly people come to me to ask for help for certain things, which feels great and I think is good a measure of how someone is “smart”. I learn less from books and more from association and observation. I also generaly reach high in what I do, but that is more thanks to determination and ambition than pure skills. Of course I also lack in many other things, staying around and understanding people is difficult and making friends is incredibly challenging
Don’t care. I’ll notice if there is a big difference between me and a person in front of me.
And sometimes one person is ignorant when it comes to one topic and super experienced and knowledgeable with another topic. And I’m the same things with different topics. So I can’t even answer if I’m smarter than another person without you giving me a topic. Apart from that, it’s just a number. And the benchmarks suck.
How did I come to that conclusion? I don’t remember. Guess I have good reasoning skills and a bad memory.
Uninteresting average
Don’t look very handsome or ugly. Just regular
White and screen tan
Work in IT
20 y/o
Not many hobbies. Tech like homelab, biking and ski. That’s it.
Not wealthy.I was tested as a kid with a 140 IQ but did my best to get that down to average levels with pot as a teenager. Every report card “… has a lot of potential if they applied themself.”
Sadly, I didn’t cure cancer. I got really into cooking and then computers, slowly realizing that while I might be smart on those tests, I am not really emotionally intelligent or particularly good at getting my crap together to make things happen.
Life kind of carried me along. I did lots of cool stuff but made major life decisions on a whim.
Everything changed when I met my wife (we weren’t married before I met her, that happened later) and combined my abilities with hers. I finally feel like I have a place in the world and know what I’m going to be doing a week, month, or year from now with some certainty. Feels good.
I would say overall I’m below average. Fairly dumb. Bottom 30% of society.
I don’t mind it too much. I know a lot about cinema and film history so I’m happy with that.
Same here lol. Don’t know that much about movies either though. I’m fairly slow too especially socially but somehow I tricked a woman into loving me… so that’s nice.
I perform well in areas I have interests in. Thus, by coincidence, I can appear capable in those areas. I’m also shockingly stupid in other areas. I’ve noticed a few things about how I learn: it has to be practical. Nothing theoretical will stick, unless put into practice. Thus, school was hell. I am also a devilish combination of a very slow learner who thinks differently about things. When a teacher taught things to the class, everyone got it immediately and I always somehow managed to come up with my own, weird, wrong interpretation of things. Once I have finally learned something, I am very accurate and precise, which is fairly useful in the fields I’ve worked in. I also have a flexible mind, which is great. I can usually reason outside of the confines most people think within. Which, see school, can be a blessing or a curse.
I’ve met truly intelligent people. Like, real freaks of nature types. PhDs in aerospace engineering, that sort of thing. Their universal intelligence is something else. It has shown and demonstrated to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that there are levels of comprehension, both in the uptake and subsequent processing of almost any information, that I will never reach.
But don’t for a minute think that these were happy people.
You sound like the textbook definition of someone with autism or on the spectrum.
I am diagnosed and the following applies to me from your comment
Excel in special interest topics.
Kinda srupid in not interest topics
Prefers practical over theoretical knowledge and application
Disliked school due to (above)
Think very complicated to understand a topicHaha, well, I’ve had many people tell me that I might be and I’ve had my own suspicions for a while. I am terrible in social situations (actually really good at them, on the surface. Good at pretending, but I hate it), I hate crowds, noise, flashing lights etc. But honestly, at this point I’m not sure what difference a diagnosis would make.
Depending on severity benefits or disadvantages.
Speak with a doctor and maybe get together with a professional for their opinion.
I average out to average, because I know a lot of things and can figure out some things, but I also have huge gaps. Whether I seem smart or stupid depends a lot on the situation and company.
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I think saying “I am dumb” has a lesser burdon of prrof so there we go.
Was gifted kid, always the smartest, highest test scores. Then I got older. I know I’m above average intelligence in lot of things. But smart enough to know how stupid I can be, that I have lots of faults, limitations. There are many kinds of intelligence, and always more to learn
Same boat. Got used to (and still ocasionally) being praised for practical applications. Limitations and faults aplenty.
Smart enough to:
See the gaps in my knowledge
Know there are gaps I haven’t even found yet
That I have and will continue to do dumb shit
I am both really smart, dumb, and average. It depends on what area you are taking about.
Same, also what day of the week
