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.
You don't even need to be smart to see this stuff is the sad part, just being able to think for yourself is a miracle these days and just doing that leads to seeing just how much of modern 'reality' is a complete farce.
I can see why many people just turn off their brains and go with the programming vs having to actually deal with real life issues in a meaningful way.
Yeah that's the bell curve meme. Low IQ people go off of instinct and instantly see everything for as it is. Midwits think they are the best because they are "experts" who know everything. High IQ know what they do not know and are able to accurately analyze things for what they are.
That's the real difference, imo, is people that think at all vs people that prefer to be media programmed.
Lots of high iq people want to just sit in front of a screen and be told what to think.
They are not actually high IQ. Their pattern recognition is broken.