Do you strike yourself as intelligent?

[Wu Wei]

I never strike myself, that would be very unintelligent

 

[PureX]

How intelligent could I be if I were "striking myself"?

 

[Wildswanderer]

Bringing a gun to school sounds weird to me.

Only because people now seem to think guns are scary. Not so long ago we viewed them as just tools and many still do.

 

[Suave]

Do you strike yourself as being an intelligent person?

My IQ test results and GED were taken in Pine Hills Youth correctional facility, and were above average! A lot of people I meet in real life have said I am very intelligent (with poor judgement and impulsivity). Also, in a typing class, I got more words per minute, better score than anyone else in the class!

A lot of people online tell me I'm an idiot and a dip ****!

Most of the comments I get in real life are that I am very intelligent though.

But this is about you! I honestly don't remember what my IQ results or GED results were and don't care, as I don't consider those to be a good indication of how intelligent a person is. I was just told that it was above what the average person scores, which is remarkable, beings that I was kicked out of school for lighting my notebook on fire during class, and other stupid behaviors, so most of what I know is self educated!

And I can wax like a professor on stuff related to History or Religion. When it comes to mathematics I'm extremely stupid, and wanted to commit suicide trying to learn the last stages of Algebra for an LPN license. Even as a a certified nurses aid, I was the only dewd in the class, and they said I didn't make the bed or wipe the scrotum of the manikin correctly, which makes me doubt my intelligence very much.

But it's really hard to determine how smart someone is. Einstein was a genius who people thought was an idiot, so you simply never know!

Also, it was very good I didn't become an LPN. I don't want to have access to morphine or opioids!

With an IQ score of 118, hardly anyone would consider me as being a genius.
Oh well, at least I an not totally an idiot.

 

[Sand Dancer]

Do you strike yourself as being an intelligent person?

My IQ test results and GED were taken in Pine Hills Youth correctional facility, and were above average! A lot of people I meet in real life have said I am very intelligent (with poor judgement and impulsivity). Also, in a typing class, I got more words per minute, better score than anyone else in the class!

A lot of people online tell me I'm an idiot and a dip ****!

Most of the comments I get in real life are that I am very intelligent though.

But this is about you! I honestly don't remember what my IQ results or GED results were and don't care, as I don't consider those to be a good indication of how intelligent a person is. I was just told that it was above what the average person scores, which is remarkable, beings that I was kicked out of school for lighting my notebook on fire during class, and other stupid behaviors, so most of what I know is self educated!

And I can wax like a professor on stuff related to History or Religion. When it comes to mathematics I'm extremely stupid, and wanted to commit suicide trying to learn the last stages of Algebra for an LPN license. Even as a a certified nurses aid, I was the only dewd in the class, and they said I didn't make the bed or wipe the scrotum of the manikin correctly, which makes me doubt my intelligence very much.

But it's really hard to determine how smart someone is. Einstein was a genius who people thought was an idiot, so you simply never know!

Also, it was very good I didn't become an LPN. I don't want to have access to morphine or opioids!

Intelligence is only one aspect of why people act as they do. My IQ is high, but sometimes I get socially uncomfortable and stay stupid things. I never tried hard in high school and my first two years of college, so I thought I was stupid. It's because I didn't try. I have low self-esteem, so I shy away from things I am not sure of. When I was getting my MSW degree, I learned that the most well-rounded people have IQs between 100-125. Over or under that and some things tend to be lacking, like social skills, etc. My BIL is a genius, but has no common sense. So does a high IQ really matter much? Plus some people are left brained (analytical) and others are right brained (creative). Some can access both almost equally but that's not very common. Higher math goes over my head, but English is easy for me. It's not an intelligence thing.

 

[Sand Dancer]

Only because people now seem to think guns are scary. Not so long ago we viewed them as just tools and many still do.

Like most things, the bad eggs ruin things for the good folks.