How smart are you relative to other CFCers?

How smart are you relative to other CFCers?

  • Among the most intelligent. (>90th percentile)

    Votes: 45 41.3%
  • More intelligent than most. (66-90th percentile)

    Votes: 17 15.6%
  • About average intelligence. (33-65th percentile)

    Votes: 26 23.9%
  • Below average intelligence. (10-32nd precentile)

    Votes: 11 10.1%
  • Among the least intelligent. (<10th precentile)

    Votes: 10 9.2%

  • Total voters
    109
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Everyone loves the joke option.
 
How smart do you think you are relative to CFCers? Pretty basic question and I've set up a poll to figure it out. I encourage everyone to rate where they think they stand.
You really are setting the bar pretty low.

Follow up question for discussion: Do you think there is a significant difference between the mean level of intelligence in the general population and the median level? What about in CFC?
Proof of the bar level follows in this paragraph.
 
The problem with this poll is that is it not a test nor a neccesery scientific honest observation. It can shaped by a person's arrogance, id, ego, super ego, central thought, view on life, political fanaticism, presence within their own enviroment and other factors of elerments of thought.
 
Which is what makes it so interesting. Actually, we might not be wrong: presumably, people who think highly of themselves are more likely to answer the poll (because they like to show off), and high self-esteem tends to correlate with high ability (not without exception, though), so it may be that the poll respondents actually are of that makeup!
 
The limbo is for any age mate.
When you are old enough to understand that this is nonsense, we'll talk.

And your definition of left and right? Ecomonically?
When I use the word "lefty" it tends to be about loons who have no clue about economics. Righties, IMO, are people who think that mass murder is ethical. I hate them both. If forced to make a choice, I would say that the righties are worse. But both are evil.
 
Edit: Wrong thread.
 
In areas of my expertise, 99th percentile.

In general, top third of the distribution? ish? I can think of many CFC'ers who could out-debate me in general, and two who could out-debate me in areas of my expertise.
 
The thing is, I don't think the most intelligent posters are neccessarily the best debaters, or at least not the ones who come across best in threads. The posters whom I actually respect are very clever, that much is obvious, but a fair few of the ones who are obviously at the very top end actually don't have the same level of flair for writing really incisive, informative posts.
 
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