How smart are you relative to other CFCers?

[BvBPL]

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.

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?

 

[downtown]

In terms of raw intellectual candle or computing power, I think I'm average, if not slightly below average.

In terms of my ability to discuss political issues? I'm in the top 15%.

 

[Dachs]

Are we at CFC intellectuals?

 

[BvBPL]

Are we at CFC intellectuals?

Yes, which is exactly why I think this question is more interesting than "how intelligent are you relative to the general population?"

 

[emzie]

Smart or knowledgeable? They're different things.

Yes, which is exactly why I think this question is more interesting than "how intelligent are you relative to the general population?"

ah, yer not an old enough poster to get the CFC meme.

edit: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=206530

 

[Gogf]

Yes, which is exactly why I think this question is more interesting than "how intelligent are you relative to the general population?"

No, Sidhe, we're not.

 

[Flying Pig]

Ah, I recognise this one... will be interesting to see how well CFC holds the bell curve.

Spoiler anyone who thinks this idea is original :

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/opinion/11brooks.html

 

[cardgame]

If this were among CFCOT I would have supplied a different answer. But as a whole, CFC is a very large group and therefore the trend among general population should hold true here as well.

 

[Arakhor]

Well, I was told when I was 14 that my IQ was in the top 0.5% of the UK population. I'm guessing that still includes me in the top 10% of CFCers.

 

[cardgame]

I'm not an expert on IQ tests, but one test as an adolescent isn't the best metric for comparison, say, a decade later... or am I completely wrong on that?

 

[Flying Pig]

If this were among CFCOT I would have supplied a different answer. But as a whole, CFC is a very large group and therefore the trend among general population should hold true here as well.

I'm taking 'the CFCers that I 'know'', because I spend very little time in the forums outside of the various OT parts, but have bad, bad memories of the Civ IV discussion forum.

I'm not an expert on IQ tests, but one test as an adolescent isn't the best metric for comparison, say, a decade later... or am I completely wrong on that?

I thought that a perfectly designed test should give you the same result whenever you took it (we don't get more or less intelligent, after all - disallowing for my own excuse!), but of course most tests will not be perfectly designed.

 

[Arakhor]

I'm not an expert on IQ tests, but one test as an adolescent isn't the best metric for comparison, say, a decade later... or am I completely wrong on that?

Try 18 years later.

Seriously though, IQ tests measure IQ. What is IQ, you ask? What IQ tests measure.

 

[Arwon]

If we are talking about the whole forum I think most who post here are probably above the mean. I mean have you read some of the game fora?

 

[Joecoolyo]

We are the 99 percent-ile

 

[madviking]

Must...resist...Dunning-Kruger...

 

[Save_Ferris]

200 is a number that describes both of us. It's your weight and my IQ.

Spoiler :

Apart from another of my obscure movie quotes, I don't think you can really measure intelligence. I've learned that everyone's smart in a different field, and even those we perceive to be smart make bad decisions.

 

[cardgame]

Must...resist...Dunning-Kruger...

Isn't there also another trope or sociological effect in which knowing of the existence of such an effect neutralizes it?

 

[madviking]

Isn't there also another trope or sociological effect in which knowing of the existence of such an effect neutralizes it?

Well, yea, knowledge of the Dunning-Kruger effect kinda makes most people a bit less brash than they would be, from what I've seen.

 

[MobBoss]

Smart or knowledgeable? They're different things.

Ah, yer not an old enough poster to get the CFC meme.

edit: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=206530

Best thread ever. A great example of how to deal with someone that tells others they dont know definitions or lack english comprehension.

Ah..the good old days.

 

[Save_Ferris]

I wonder if the results would be different in the Chamber.