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Huffington Post is better than People Magazine or the National Enquirer or Brietbart but you kind of have to keep the spin in mind. The target audience is center-left women Millennials. It's way less biased than, say, Fox News but it has some bias.
I have known since I was age 7 that I had 98% verbal aptitude and only 2% mechanical aptitude...
By definition, such a statistical difference between verbal IQ and performance IQ is a Non-Verbal Learning Disability (NVLD). Such a huge difference is extremely rare. How did that affect your growing up? Most such people find romantic relationships extremely difficult; indeed studies show such NVLD people rarely have successful long term romantic relationships.
I vaguely remember reading about a research experiment done in a university psychology department; men were shown a series of photographs of women and asked if they would date and/or marry them. I'm not completely clear how it was set up, but I think some of the women were said to have higher standardized test scores than the subjects.
I think initially, most men said they would, but in the final analysis, they didn't.
Well, I did, and it's been like a chess game ever since.
Joanna Gaines appears to be smarter than Chip...at least that's how they play it for television.
Sadly, intelligent/smart people have the hardest time finding love, and often feel lonely, or stay single all their life. They are smart enough to decide that it's better to be alone, than to be with just anyone.
I've long felt this has been one of my issues, which also ties into the next quoted comment - I don't want to feel like I'm dating/married to a child that needs constant attention, supervision, decision making, whatever. Which I know sounds horrible, and like I'm one of the "I'm better than you" people, but I can't think of any better way to explain it right now.
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Originally Posted by bergun
I'm far from stupid, but I tend to be attracted more to independent and smart women. I know or at least feel that in my absence or whatever, a wise decision would be made, using a thought process based on facts and not just emotions or what they heard from a friend.
This...I find it astounding the number of women that I've met that seemingly can't even go to the bathroom without consulting their boyfriends/husbands first, much less making any major decision. I get not wanting to do something like buying a car or a house solo, or making a change in employment, etc. But on the other hand, if I get stuck at work well out of cell phone range (which is a common scenario for me), and say a kid gets hurt or sick, the AC goes out, the car breaks down, whatever..that she's not going to shut down until I become available again.
Huffington Post is better than People Magazine or the National Enquirer or Brietbart but you kind of have to keep the spin in mind. The target audience is center-left women Millennials. It's way less biased than, say, Fox News but it has some bias.
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Originally Posted by SportyandMisty
That's debatable.
Stuff is always debatable...you probably wouldn't trust this but it is one assessment of media bias:
I've long felt this has been one of my issues, which also ties into the next quoted comment - I don't want to feel like I'm dating/married to a child that needs constant attention, supervision, decision making, whatever. Which I know sounds horrible, and like I'm one of the "I'm better than you" people, but I can't think of any better way to explain it right now.
You've touched on something important here that helps define the question better than the silliness it started out with.
If you're the type of person that compares GRE scores on a date and acts accordingly, good luck to ya.
If you want to find other criteria like the music they listen to or their spelling, good luck to ya.
While I admit there are many definitions of 'smart' and 'intelligent' that people subscribe to (and hence color their responses here), my working definition of it is more of an approach than a set of criteria. Here are some examples that reflect that:
When faced with something unfamiliar, do you wade in and see what it's like or do you retreat to your comfort zone and downplay the value?
Are you more curious or more reluctant?
Do you enjoy a round of questions or would you rather be spoken at?
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