Dezzie
Well-Known Member
It's very interesting to me that a guy is saying the average girl is smarter than the smartest guy. I mean... it's 100% true but wow... :beach:
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Smartest Guy In the Room
- Thread starter Midnight Pete
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It's very interesting to me that a guy is saying the average girl is smarter than the smartest guy. I mean... it's 100% true but wow... :beach:
tomato1236
Ninja Master
I've been trained to flatter girls with regards to intelligence regardless of each girl's actual intelligence. It's indocrination at its best. Any male complete genius would know this is a good idea.
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
You're not supposed to reveal that...
tomato1236
Ninja Master
Don't worry. She'll forget the moment she gets distracted by something shiny.
Dezzie
Well-Known Member
:highfive: Especially when the woman later finds out what a liar you were. Hopefully you got what you wanted out of her before she found out. :bow: I bow down to your manly intelligence and superb ideas! lol
Dezzie
Well-Known Member
lmao that's where you are wrong. I am a tomboy and care for nothing shiny!
Maybe if you bought me an amazing video game, I might forget!
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
tumbleweed41
Resident Liberal Hippie
On a serious note.
What type of person is threatened by intelligence enough to call it a sickness?
What type of person is threatened by intelligence enough to call it a sickness?
Dezzie
Well-Known Member
:ignore:
Aren't you lucky I can't play that at work... I may just get distracted and stop doing my job! haha
tomato1236
Ninja Master
I think he was more saying that believing you're smarter than everyone else is a sickness, not actually being smart.
tumbleweed41
Resident Liberal Hippie
Ah, arrogance.
Not necessarily a sickness, but rather annoying.
As the smartest guy here I am well aware of how annoying it can be when others think they are smarter than me.
Engyo
Prince of Dorkness!
Did you ever think that what you are perceiving as an attempt on someone else's part to prove they are smarter than you, is really their attempt to help you become smarter instead? I can't say that is true in all cases but it is certainly true in at least some of them.
tomato1236
Ninja Master
No. This implies some sort of altruism, which I rarely ever detect on RF, particularly in debates.
St Giordano Bruno
Well-Known Member
I think an extreme form is called megalomania.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
Beats me? Me? I normally pretend that everyone is the room is smarter... it's much more satisfying.
Midnight Pete
Well-Known Member
I didn't say that intelligence was a sickness. The need to always be the smartest guy in the room, that's the sickness. I call it Pride or Intellectual Vanity.
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
I agree. Most of the time they end up looking kind of stupid, though. My dad, who in my opinion was one brilliant man, used to say, "Nobody's smart in everything." People have their own areas of expertise. People should be content to know that they know more about some things than most other people and recognize that there are other areas in which they suck pretty bad.
Life is not fair: Some people are indeed the smartest people in the room. If someone knows themselves to be smarter than others, is it really a sickness for them to know that?
At any rate, maybe we might not know who is the smartest person in the room because some years ago, there was a study done, the results of which strongly suggested that when someone else is 20 or more IQ points above us, we almost always judge them to be less intelligent than us. Interesting study.
(No doubt the study explains why so many conservatives think liberals are stupid.)
At any rate, maybe we might not know who is the smartest person in the room because some years ago, there was a study done, the results of which strongly suggested that when someone else is 20 or more IQ points above us, we almost always judge them to be less intelligent than us. Interesting study.
(No doubt the study explains why so many conservatives think liberals are stupid.
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Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
Yes, but most of them are often not the smartest people in every room they find themselves in.
Now that is really interesting! Maybe that's why people keep underestimating my brainpower!
I think what you've said is true enough of most people's lives.
Now that is really interesting! Maybe that's why people keep underestimating my brainpower!
Exactly!