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For this to work please answer a simple question as honestly as you can. After a couple of responses I will post the idea behing it so you can actually understand your results. Here's one final important clarification before the question itself:
Intelligence - a simplistic definition for the purpose of this experiment: an individual's ability to recognise patterns in all things. More intelligence does not mean having more knowledge, it means better understanding and using whatever knowledge you do have.
the question itself:
Out of what percentage of all your friends and acquaintances (no matter the age or gender) are you more intelligent than?
If you'r not entirely sure write down a rough percentage. Please be honest - saying something less than what you think because you think claiming you are very intelligent is a sign of arrogance or something - ignore that feeling and be honest. Also saying something more than what you think to get attention to yourself is also pointless - this is the internet - everything is anonymous.
I figure it's more like we'll all rate ourselves above average. Which will then be used to show how everyone thinks it's the other guy or something like that. Without considering this is far from a normal distribution, and I suspect just the fact that the responses will be from poster on CD means we're not normal. (In however context you wan to take that.)
For this to work please answer a simple question as honestly as you can. After a couple of responses I will post the idea behing it so you can actually understand your results. Here's one final important clarification before the question itself:
Intelligence - a simplistic definition for the purpose of this experiment: an individual's ability to recognise patterns in all things. More intelligence does not mean having more knowledge, it means better understanding and using whatever knowledge you do have.
the question itself:
Out of what percentage of all your friends and acquaintances (no matter the age or gender) are you more intelligent than?
If you'r not entirely sure write down a rough percentage. Please be honest - saying something less than what you think because you think claiming you are very intelligent is a sign of arrogance or something - ignore that feeling and be honest. Also saying something more than what you think to get attention to yourself is also pointless - this is the internet - everything is anonymous.
Your question doesn't make sense. If you meant to ask, "What percentage of all your friends and acquaintances are you more intelligent than," I would have to say circa 95% of them.
I'd also like to say that nothing we do or say on the Internet is anonymous.
This really depends on what subject area you are talking about. If you want to have a chemistry discussion I'll go with 98% (remember this is my acquaintances and friends not the world). If you want to have a discussion on foreign policy, 1%. There are areas where I apply myself and areas where I don't. Almost every adult around my age I know is more intelligent than me in something. I don't know how to answer this question.
I'd say 50-60%. If you'd asked me 15 years ago, I'd have said 70-80%, but I've either gotten more humble (or realistic) or lost some brain cells since then (most likely both).
Do you mean iq? Hmm I am not sure. I work in two environments. In the research lab I am distinct middle to low middle of the road. So maybe 60% are smarter than me. But I also teach high school. Compared to the other teachers and staff, I am in the top 25%. Compared to the students (they are all above average since it's a magnet school), dead middle 50/50. But I know more than they do
In my family, again close to smartest on one side, average on the other.
Among friends, most of them are in the same field I am, so 50/50.
Do you mean iq? Hmm I am not sure. I work in two environments. In the research lab I am distinct middle to low middle of the road. So maybe 60% are smarter than me. But I also teach high school. Compared to the other teachers and staff, I am in the top 25%. Compared to the students (they are all above average since it's a magnet school), dead middle 50/50. But I know more than they do
In my family, again close to smartest on one side, average on the other.
Among friends, most of them are in the same field I am, so 50/50.
This is how I feel.
I'm used to being one of the smarter people in the room, in previous jobs. At my current company, though, I am strictly middle of the road. There are a lot of brilliant people in my industry.
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