People value intelligence and will apply that label to themselves even if it may not be true. It's a hard thing to measure though IQ does it reasonably well. To those who have a high IQ: what is it like? Can you pick up any book, read it, and understand the gist with minimal repetition? Can you infer solid and accurate conclusions based on a small amount of evidence? Is any subject or discipline up for grabs or do you have to have a keen interest in a particular field in order to flourish? What is something you are able to do that you know is because of your intelligence -- the proverbial 1,000 pound deadlift of the brain, if you will.
There is no point to these questions other than curiosity.
Anyone who thinks they are smart is almost certainly a retard and has no other objective measure to preen about their superiority to other people. Especially if they know or brag about their IQ.
But people love to circlejerk about how they, their group, and their hangout is filled with High IQ individuals who are capable of answering those questions.
Perhaps I gave this place too much credit
Its not a "this place" thing, its a basic human nature thing. Everyone thinks they are smarter than everyone else, no one will admit they are in the 50% of the population below 100 IQ if they can even recognize it.
You can see in the answers you got, which is filled with people smugly crowing about how everyone else is boring and they are so ostracized and alone because of their super intellect.
Yeah, that's what I meant. There seemed to be a few replies from actual smart people though, which was honestly the goal -- wheat from the chaff, etc.
How can you tell? There are some people for whom I'd think that it's not very unlikely that they're telling the truth... but since we're on the internet, no one knows you're a dog and no one knows that you ain't bright.
It may be even worse in real life, because how well-spoken you are has an enormous impact on how smart you're considered to be. I think this is less the case on the internet, as people know you can just edit stuff to sound coherent.