Do you consider yourself smarter than the "average guy"?

Coney Island · 21-04-2005 9:05pm #1

I was just wondering how people consider themself compared to the "average person"... I am going through a period of my life where my over-confidence is becoming arrogance, and I know this is not good. Probably because I am a very competitive person and everything is going great for me at the moment, but this prevents me from enjoying small things in the day to day life. Fortunately this hasn't brought to disrespect for other people, however I can get easily annoyed...

Anyway, I know many people do not like comparisons with others, but I am sure everybody at a certain stage of their life find themselves in situations where they think to be better/worse of others.

How do you see yourself, and why?

Blisterman · 21-04-2005 9:09pm

Im smarter than the average bear.

ExOffender · 21-04-2005 9:14pm

Was going to vote myself smarter tbh, but the poll seems a bit schizophrenic. Are you talking just about intelligence, or all kinds of qualities?

_blank_ · 21-04-2005 9:17pm

My answer?

<--

Le Rack · 21-04-2005 9:19pm

I dont care what other people think of me, to a certain extent. If someone doesn't like me, "has a problem" with me its their problem. If happy with how my life is then Im not gonna change it to suit other people.

frodi · 21-04-2005 9:19pm

I do not consider myself smarter than the average guy. I AM smarter that your average guy.

Coney Island · 21-04-2005 9:20pm

ExOffender wrote:

Was going to vote myself smarter tbh, but the poll seems a bit schizophrenic. Are you talking just about intelligence, or all kinds of qualities?

Intelligence, along with general success in life would be the main factors (someone said "intelligent without ambition is useless", I don't remember who though).....

Thanks for the schizophrenic

Just to be consistent with what I wrote above I chosed "I am God"

kittenkiller · 21-04-2005 9:21pm

I definately am.

My psychic told me!

Coney Island · 21-04-2005 9:23pm

frodi wrote:

I do not consider myself smarter than the average guy. I AM smarter that your average guy.

These are the type of answers I like ;-)

StupidLikeAFox · 21-04-2005 9:24pm

Im 5 times smarter than your average banana

ExOffender · 21-04-2005 9:31pm

I'm a complete loser with a high (though never tested) IQ. So I figured that would balance out and voted myself average... can you smell the humility?

Adam · 21-04-2005 9:41pm

frodi wrote:

I do not consider myself smarter than the average guy. I AM smarter that your average guy.

But I can't use proper english... :rolleyes:

I don't care.

Yurmasyurda · 21-04-2005 9:46pm

There should be an option above "I am God" with my name... But seriously though, I'm great!

Dinner · 21-04-2005 9:53pm

I'm great and probably smarter than the average guy

. But honestly I couldnt care less what people think of me or how smart they are.

*Angel* · 21-04-2005 10:40pm

I am someoned who is good at the mathematical side of things and my spatial reasoning is high. But I dunno if your going into the details of IQ, however I find languages a bit difficult. I would say that I am generally smarter than the "average guy", I am highly ambitious, I know what I have to do to get what I want so I'll do it. I'm doing the leaving cert this year, and I know I have to get 500 points (aiming for over) to be safe enough to get the college course I want.

[InsertHandle] · 21-04-2005 11:14pm

i took an IQ test less than a week ago and got 142 which i think is pretty good:) ... having said that i am useless in ALL social situations and can't get a date to save my life

21-04-2005 11:14pm

Smrt.

ApeXaviour · 21-04-2005 11:23pm

If you turn your head sideways and look at the results thus far, they just about make an exact inverse bell-curve! So either boards people are abnormally dumb/clever, or somebody's telling a poo-poo..

Adam · 21-04-2005 11:29pm

The sad thing is the majority thinking they're God... :rolleyes:

Basq · 21-04-2005 11:36pm

Blisterman wrote:

Im smarter than the average bear.

Beat me to it!! :mad:

Pet · 21-04-2005 11:36pm

Myth wrote:

Smrt.

Argh! You beat me to it!

Wibbs · 22-04-2005 8:10am

Once went to a M*nsa meeting a good few years back. Bloody hell, I've very rarely encountered such a bunch of boring, self important, borderline aspergers bunch of eejits in my life. When you're trapped in a conversation with some 40+ yr old boring on about star wars and foaming spittle at the corner of his mouth, the realisation that life is too short hits you very hard(and I was 19 at the time). That and the fact that some of them were goin on about rubiks cubes 10 yrs too late. It was a scary cliche from start to finish. Though I will say one of the chicks was v cute and was equally bored to tears.

And to all these people who think themselves God, I'm gonna start smitin' people around here. I think I'll start with a plague of boils. Always went down well in the old days.........

TerrorFirmer · 22-04-2005 8:17am

Accordingly to both an IQ and an english test of sorts, I am actually smarter then the average....but so what?

I could have taken the test on a monday morning and turned out way below average.

Kingsize · 22-04-2005 8:40am

god bless Mensa it gets them out of the house doesnt it?
i certainly feel smarter than most of my co workers but then
work is so fake isnt it?so i possibly could be working with creative gods who just choose to talk about footballers wives all the time.
i'm happy in the knowledge that im smarter than kian from westlife but sad that he wasnt eaten by that lion.

WhiteWashMan · 22-04-2005 8:59am

im sure we'd all like to think we are the bees knees, but im aure we are all preety much the average.

on the other hand, common sense does seem to be a rare commodity these days.
and thats just as important

MrScruff · 22-04-2005 1:01pm

Once went to a M*nsa meeting a good few years back.

Give out about the pomp and self importantance of it all, but you obviously felt the need to attend yourself.

Goodshape · 22-04-2005 1:08pm

I'm far too smart to vote in that obviously flawed poll.

I am smarter than the average - better work, better personal life

The first half might apply to me, the second half doesn't.

Trojan · 22-04-2005 1:48pm

It's quite common to see intellectualism (and pseudo-intellectualism) confused with intelligence. Especially on boards

I'm 42.323% more intellectual than a hyper-modified Deep Blue Sea Shark on a Wednesday.

mmmm Dr. McAlester..

WhiteWashMan · 22-04-2005 2:14pm

Trojan wrote:

It's quite common to see intellectualism (and pseudo-intellectualism) confused with intelligence. Especially on boards

I'm 42.323% more intellectual than a hyper-modified Deep Blue Sea Shark on a Wednesday.

mmmm Dr. McAlester..

that just not true and you know it!

hullaballoo · 22-04-2005 4:43pm

the discussion becomes moot when you take into account the fact that the "average guy" is a complete nincompoop

Average LC points = 300

WTF?

Auf

*Page* · 22-04-2005 4:58pm

Yes since i am a woman!!!!!!

Wibbs · 22-04-2005 6:18pm

MrScruff wrote:

Give out about the pomp and self importantance of it all, but you obviously felt the need to attend yourself.

Nope, not really. Ever gone to a party that turned out crap? I was invited so I went to check it out. Don't remember any pomps though. Maybe they were in disguise

Capt'n Midnight · 22-04-2005 6:56pm

WhiteWashMan wrote:

on the other hand, common sense does seem to be a rare commodity these days.
and thats just as important

"Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" T. S. Elliot
Where is the information we have lost in the search for data..

Trojan · 22-04-2005 7:01pm

*Page* wrote:

Yes since i am a woman!!!!!!

Post reported for sexism.

*Page* · 22-04-2005 7:10pm

Trojan wrote:

Post reported for sexism.

Woman are Smarter than the average male scientifically proven!!! :rolleyes:

Trojan · 22-04-2005 7:15pm

Links?

I may have to unreport that

*Page* · 22-04-2005 7:24pm

why is it that in mixed school's they have to drop the class speed so the boy's don't get left behind!(this is sexist)
why is it that girls single sex schools get better grades than mixed or single sex male schools?

Stark · 22-04-2005 7:28pm

Smarter than the average guy but don't have better work or personal life.

*Page* · 22-04-2005 7:29pm

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Farm/7478/womensma.htm

http://objectz.com/columnists/denise/06042001.asp

*Page* · 22-04-2005 7:31pm

my work is sh!t to be very honest but a man was unable to do it so i had to take over! my social life is better than most people i know! i live with my best friend have a great boyfriend lots of love friends what more could i ask for!

Trojan · 22-04-2005 7:32pm

Cos girls don't have anything better to do than play with Barbies, whereas we have social interaction with sports, guns and the like!!

Coney Island · 22-04-2005 7:32pm

*Page* wrote:

Woman are Smarter than the average male scientifically proven!!! :rolleyes:

This is what we like to let you think....

StupidLikeAFox · 22-04-2005 7:52pm

*Page* wrote:

my work is sh!t to be very honest but a man was unable to do it so i had to take over!

Cleaner or prostitute?

Deadwing · 22-04-2005 8:12pm

ColHol wrote:

Cleaner or prostitute?

i actually did lol reading that. But now having thought about it a man can be a prostitute just as well as awoman. Havent you seen 'my own private idaho'??

StupidLikeAFox · 22-04-2005 8:23pm

um, ive seen deuce bigalow....?

Calibos · 23-04-2005 1:10am

Every day dealing with the general public, I realise more and more that I am more intelligent than the average guy.

I used to think I was average but I guess I was comparing myself to the only people I knew at the time which were my friends/peers/classmates etc ie with secondary school classmates you're obviously filtered into classes where the students are of broadly the same intellignce. With friends you tend to gravitate towards people of broadly the same intelligence and interests as you.

However when you go out into the real world and begin your working life and associate or come in contact with a much broader range of people, you get a better sense of where you stand intelligence-wise compared to average.

So at this stage I do feel I am more intelligent than the average guy.

But its all for nought and doesn't really mean a damn at the end of the day because I have intelligence but no ambition, drive or confidence.

I envy the bricklayer who is as thick as two short planks, who talks about nothing but soccer, hasn't a clue who Kofi Annan is (what team does he play for

) but who is happy, confident, and earning a mint to support his family setting up his bricklaying company or what ever. He had the personality, drive and confidence to overcome any intellectual shortcomings he may have had to make a success of his life.

So I don't look down on this hypothetical bricklayer because I am more intelligent than him, I look up to him.

You can go far with intelligence,drive and ambition. You can go far with lesser intelligence but with drive and ambition, but you'll go nowhere with intelligence but no drive or ambition.

Do you consider yourself smarter than the "average guy"?

Do you consider yourself smarter than the "average guy"? 115 votes

Comments