What is a very intelligent person?

[Kaitzilla]

20/20, with ease
152

An intelligent person would not have wasted that time.
Edit: An intelligent person would have continued reading the thread (which would include Graffito's post).

152
But I struggled on a few of the questions, so that means you are smarter than me!

An intelligent person would not have wasted that time.

More seriously though, a very intelligent person to me is someone who can estimate the future.
Calculate the consequences before everyone else.

 

[Tigranes]

On a serious note more intelligent person is the one who does things faster and easier than less intelligent person. What that test really should depend on is time. Say you take a random sample of 100 people, make them to do the same pattern test and time their performance. All the scores modified by time variable will produce the familiar bell curve. Those in 98th percentile will be very intelligent. My original link was connecting to more serious timed test, but as a little bit intelligent person I faked it to the end in order to discover that you have to pay to see your results. So I opted for less serious test and offered to win Civilization game, to indicate that I am not being very serious. So 152 in how many minutes?

 

[Quackers]

I think you could.

I mean, how do you think he got to the level he did? He wasn't born with it, that's for sure.

I don't think anybody is born with an innate ability to shoot a three pointer or dribble a soccerball but the really talented sportsmen in the world can put in an hour of practice but get two hours improvement in contrast to everybody else. They have a natural ability to pick it up.

Though I do agree that there are minute differences between people that can nudge them to be better than others, genetic thinks like height and such. But underlying all that, I still believe anyone is capable of anything, or can be "intelligent" at anything if they put their mind to it.

If I worked as hard as Usain Bolt I wouldn't get near his time for the 100m. There is a genetic limit to what you can achieve. Usain Bolt ate chicken nuggets from McDonalds everyday in Beijing 2008, he even spread his arms in a celebratory gesture before he had crossed the finish line in the 100m final. Despite the unprofessional self imposed limitations he won comfortably.

The genetic lottery is real.

 

[A Space Ostrich]

According to my IQ scores. I'm just shy of genius. I'm what you'd call very intelligent. Intelligence in itself seems to be based on the strength, density and number of brain connections. This number can be changed through learning, so I would say a very intelligent person would be anyone with over X connection density provided they have no learning disability or savant type effects. Autism and other similar disabilities that don't affect connection acquisition can be ignored.

 

[Borachio]

Score 130 on this test and you will be counted as very intelligent. Alternatively try to win as Maya with the best history simulator in the world.

140.

Which just goes to prove how bogus such tests are. Still, I didn't score 130. So there's that to consider. How do you decide which ones to answer incorrectly?

And I'm convinced I got one answer wrong, since I made a blind guess.

But 20 questions aren't going to prove anything. Any more than that and I'd have given up because of the sheer tediousness of such things. I mean, who cares which squiggly bit follows on in a natural sequence from other squiggly bits?

 

[Tigranes]

I have explained about bogus part. That test was not timed, otherwise it has legitimate questions.

Mensa is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. Mensa is formally composed of national groups and the umbrella organization Mensa International, with a registered office in Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, England. Mensa's requirement for membership is a score at or above the 98th percentile on certain standardised IQ or other approved intelligence tests, such as the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales. The minimum accepted score on the Stanford-Binet is 132, while for the Cattell it is 148. Most IQ tests are designed to yield a mean score of 100 with a standard deviation of 15; the 98th-percentile score under these conditions is 131. Full, Supervised Mensa IQ Test sessions take around two and a half hours and are administered under strictly controlled conditions . We then mark your IQ test papers and your results returned to you in confidence for a one off fee of £24.95.

 

[Kaitzilla]

So 152 in how many minutes?

I'd rather not say

Mensa is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. Mensa is formally composed of national groups and the umbrella organization Mensa International, with a registered office in Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, England. Mensa's requirement for membership is a score at or above the 98th percentile on certain standardised IQ or other approved intelligence tests, such as the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales. The minimum accepted score on the Stanford-Binet is 132, while for the Cattell it is 148. Most IQ tests are designed to yield a mean score of 100 with a standard deviation of 15; the 98th-percentile score under these conditions is 131. Full, Supervised Mensa IQ Test sessions take around two and a half hours and are administered under strictly controlled conditions . We then mark your IQ test papers and your results returned to you in confidence for a one off fee of £24.95.

Bah, Mensa.
I'd like to hear one of this genius club's accomplishments.
Mensa did/accomplished/invented __________

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Bah, Mensa.
I'd like to hear one of this genius club's accomplishments.
Mensa did/accomplished/invented __________

This would be why most highly intelligent people are best served keeping the fact to themselves.

As in all other characteristics, the world is designed for people within that large majority that is within two standard deviations of the mean. Too tall? You are in such a minority that designers don't even consider you when working on cars, or airline seats. Too intelligent? The educational system can't be designed around teaching you at the pace you can learn, because it has to cater to that vast majority, the 96% who are close enough to average that treating them all the same tends to work out.

But then comes the difference between the two percent who are outside the norm on the 'low' side, and the two percent who are outside the norm on the 'high' side. The world is no more comfortable for one than the other, but on the low side you get sympathy. Oh, we need to provide a step here for the unusually short people, we need special programs to help the unusually heavy people, we need special education for the unusually less intelligent people. But those Mensa people...they have potential so they <deleted> owe us normal people something. Why aren't they curing cancer, or building me a better car, or doing something for us?

I would like to thank all the highly intelligent people for not applying their intelligence to finding ways to sling all the normal people into the sun, as I'm sure that would make their lives more pleasant.

 

[Kyriakos]

I think that the only intelligent reason for an intelligent person to bother with IQ tests is if he/she is in school and they have such a test or series of tests through which they can escape to some special school for people with high IQ etc. Otherwise it is pretty pointless.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Or, because he realises that there's no easy way to measure intelligence, and the only way that gets through the broad public is the IQ test.

 

[Kyriakos]

There are few things more obnoxious than one trying to pass oneself as better due to supposedly being a 'genius', though.. Maybe in an angelic world it would be seen as something great, due to being put to use for the greater good. In the world we have... it is yet another dumb reason to attack/be attacked.
Check the views on having a 'great' body. Some are very negative to that due to their own pain. And high intelligence often is not due to more effort on the part of the person than having a great body is for some.

Both are blessings, but sadly we are still in a pretty bad mode of non-cooperation, as in highschool. Only we are in planet highschool now.

 

[Tigranes]

I was told there is a saying in English: If you are so smart, why are you so poor? As non-native English speaker I want to ask -- is this a common expression? And where?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Well.. the point of being a genius is being better than the common man.

 

[Borachio]

I was told there is a saying in English: If you are so smart, why are you so poor? As non-native English speaker I want to ask -- is this a common expression? And where?

I've never heard it myself.

Only fools and horses work; now, that's common.

 

[gay_Aleks]

I find the lack of mules in this saying depressing. Racism, I say.

 

[Borachio]

Speciesm. Or is it transgenderist?

Also prejudiced against those with learning difficulties.

 

[Kyriakos]

"Only fools and horses"...

There was something disgustingly cockney about that show. Oh right, all the protagonists. And what is that coat type called?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Come on, now let's not get complicated. If you can make simple discriminations towards animals, then you'd be damn sure ready not to respect the words that make our world go round.

 

[Borachio]

Well, that's a sheepskin. But stereotypically he was usually (or often, I think - I'm really no expert on it) found in a camel hair coat.

And this is Rodney emulating him:

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Well.. the point of being a genius is being better than the common man.

Being better than the common man requires being good, not intelligent.

Being a genius has nothing to do with being better, it's just a characteristic a few people are born with. Given that it makes them different from the majority of people it is more likely a curse than a blessing.