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.
lol I'm kind of understanding where the others are coming from with thinking this is bait but I don't think the OP is coming from a bad place. How do we even measure intelligence? Because you can have somebody who is completely fucking dumb in every capacity but if they've worked hard at something very specialised they would seem like a 200+ IQ genius if you didn't talk to them about anything else.
There are definitely different types of intelligence I mean a great one to look at which schools and traditional education refuse to acknowledge is street smarts. You put some white guy who had the misfortune of growing up in the 'hood' for example and you'd think he was a navy seal with all the different tells he can spot about a person but it's not because he was taught that it's because he grew up in a rough environment and learned body language reading out of a need to survive.
That's a form of intelligence that can't really be measured and it's something that I'm thinking about myself. IQ tests? Okay, sure, but what do they really prove exactly? Even if I satisfied my curiosity finally and went to get an IQ test and I did get something high at the end of the day it just seems like another dick measuring contest.
That's the next thread. I'm sure the average reported will be around 12 inches.
IQ is general intelligence. That's why you would have to not talk with him about anything else. And it's also why IQ tests include a variety of questions. You can also test IQ in ways that are very difficult for an ordinary guy to train, like the highly g-loaded reverse digit span.
Street smarts is just 'wisdom', not intelligence. If you grow up sheltered, that does not actually decrease your intelligence, it just makes you incapable of dealing with anything.
If you brag about it online, it really is. It's not an honest signal, of course, because whether you score 80 or 150, you can claim to be 150.