How smart are you relative to other CFCers?

[Skwink]

Also, according to the poll, this forum thinks very highly of itself. Lol.

Yeah, it looks like we have a lot of geniuses here.

I voted about average.

 

[Flying Pig]

Yeah, it looks like we have a lot of geniuses here.

The funny thing is, we do have rather a lot of Bright Young Things (or 'lighthouses in the desert', to use the less flattering term) around, but I find it hard to believe that 40% of us fall into that category!

 

[Perfection]

I am the smartest CFCer.

 

[metatron]

Some of the tests one takes to measure your IQ involve solving puzzles; moving puzzle pieces around to fit a certain shape, or memorizing number strings backwards. Does that mean you're smart, or that you're good at numbers games and puzzles?

IQ is a number. [...] something as complicated as intelligence cannot be defined by a single numerical value. Or really even a set of values.

This sounds like a statement of fact.
While you were pushing your psych class experience you forgot to mention that there is no consensus among psychologists whether Spearman's g (or some such) exists or not.

Much like the political compass, which i DESPISE, something as complicated as intelligence cannot be defined by a single numerical value.

See, maybe you have in spite of your high general intelligence not really picked up on what the PC scores are.
In my view to most people the function of the PC score is not to "define" anything. That would be outright counterintuive given the way it is produced anyway. It is not so much a measurement as a means of communication. Sure it is of somewhat conventional character...

Does any of it become guaranteed with extremely high intelligence?

Who claimed that again?

Having the highest IQ often means little more than having a higher number on a sheet of paper somewhere. Whether you can apply it to something more meaningful, often means having other talents. Stephen Hawking is Stephen Hawking because he has other talents, not because he won an IQ contest.

99% of anything is hard work (maybe you meant that with "other talents").
Nobody claimed intelligence was a magic shortcut covered in fairy dust.

All throughout my childhood I was told I was in the 99th percentile.

I hope you have noticed that i didn't tell you about the result of any IQ tests i have taken.
That's not an accident.

I don't think I could make such a post unironically. Props.

Since this seems to have become a poll:
+1

Edit: Sorry, i forgot this already as a poll. My bad.

 

[cardgame]

My own pet theory of intelligence is that it can be defined simply by the ability to recognize patterns. Patterns are in everything, so the better you can recognize them, the easier you will learn, the better you will perform, and you may see things others cannot.

 

[Virote_Considon]

I am the smartest CFCer.

I dunno, I've been thinking for quite a while now that the smartest is me. I would say that this is especially true since you've not been on much recently, but then neither have I. I guess we'll have to call this a draw.

 

[MobBoss]

I am the smartest CFCer.

I'm second smartest.

 

[emzie]

The poll results smell like this to me:

The Dunning-Kruger effect occurs when incompetent people not only fail to realise their incompetence, but consider themselves much more competent than everyone else. Basically - they're too stupid to know that they're stupid.
If you have no doubts whatsoever about your brilliance, you could just be that damn good. On the other hand...

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

PS: knowing when to cite this is like the second most important thing to looking smart online. The first most important is shooting down solipsists.

 

[Synobun]

Spoiler :

This sounds like a statement of fact.
While you were pushing your psych class experience you forgot to mention that there is no consensus among psychologists whether Spearman's g (or some such) exists or not.



See, maybe you have in spite of your high general intelligence not really picked up on what the PC scores are.
In my view to most people the function of the PC score is not to "define" anything. That would be outright counterintuive given the way it is produced anyway. It is not so much a measurement as a means of communication. Sure it is of somewhat conventional character...

Who claimed that again?

99% of anything is hard work (maybe you meant that with "other talents").
Nobody claimed intelligence was a magic shortcut covered in fairy dust.

I hope you have noticed that i didn't tell you about the result of any IQ tests i have taken.
That's not an accident.

Since this seems to have become a poll:
+1

Edit: Sorry, i forgot this already as a poll. My bad.

metatron, ruining good posts since Jan. 2002.

 

[metatron]

metatron, ruining good posts since Jan. 2002.

Given that popularity contests (and their negative) are forbidden by the forum rules this must be an attempt to make me see the error of my ways by employing radiant, awesome wit...

 

[Traitorfish]

 

[Cutlass]

The funny thing is, we do have rather a lot of Bright Young Things (or 'lighthouses in the desert', to use the less flattering term) around, but I find it hard to believe that 40% of us fall into that category!

Maybe ~30% of us just can't evaluate the intelligence of others very well.

 

[Mango Elephant]

I'm second smartest.

I get to be third smartest and forth smartest then. If anyone is ever nice to me I'll give them forth smartest.

 

[Dachs]

The poll results smell like this to me:

I think it's an unholy mashup of

a) people that probably are that smart
b) people that voted that option because why the hell not
c) people that wanted to screw up the Pole (related to b)
d) people whose perceptions are colored by the Dunning-Kruger effect

I think that d) might even be the smallest of those groups.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

How smart should I tell people I am to make them like me?

Thoughts?

 

[Cutlass]

How smart should I tell people I am to make them like me?

Thoughts?

Don't Talking about how smart you are is not the way to win friends and influence people.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Lmao.

I was going for: How dumb should I tell people I am so that when I occasionally say something smart, they go:
Aww, how cute is that?

 

[NickyJ]

I think it's an unholy mashup of

a) people that probably are that smart
b) people that voted that option because why the hell not
c) people that wanted to screw up the Pole (related to b)
d) people whose perceptions are colored by the Dunning-Kruger effect

I think that d) might even be the smallest of those groups.

I come from the poll B.C.

 

[MobBoss]

I get to be third smartest and forth smartest then. If anyone is ever nice to me I'll give them forth smartest.

Nah, you're a ways down the list. http://forums.civfanatics.com/memberlist.php?order=DESC&sort=posts&pp=30

How smart should I tell people I am to make them like me?

Thoughts?

Tell them you are an intellectual.

 

[NickyJ]

I'm the 435th smartest, out of 59,579. Mango is 880th.