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Do you consider yourself intelligent?

Do you think you're intelligent?

  • I'm a genius.

    Votes: 55 29.7%

  • I'd say I'm book smart.

    Votes: 75 40.5%

  • (Street) smart.

    Votes: 28 15.1%

  • Average

    Votes: 16 8.6%

  • No, I don't really think I'm that intelligent at all.

    Votes: 11 5.9%
  • Total voters
    185
IQ my left wing nut.

Thick as pig ****, but twice as tasty.

Intelligence is really over rated, I meet a lot of highly intelligent people and most of them tend to be complete cawks.

The only IQ I care about is Image Quality and my camera rocks the IQ.

Fox
 
All my teachers say I'm very intelligent but I have to work harder... I suppose you get lazy when your a teenager... I know that I have to work more, because I can see that in my academic results and the thing is, I know I can work harder (and I want to) but it just seems so boring to me... The subjects are just not interesting enough and don't motivate me at all...
 
Surely said:
Useless facts are the best kind...... :D


I seem to know a lot about nothing too.
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I found out that I had the ability to memorize useless facts when I realized that I still remembered that the total area of china is 9,562,904 sq. km, a fact that I memorized when I was in the 3rd grade... :eek:
 
So Snapple Caps - one of your favorite pieces of literature? (when they had those "snapple facts" a while back) :D
 
anti-microsoft said:
All my teachers say I'm very intelligent but I have to work harder... I suppose you get lazy when your a teenager... I know that I have to work more, because I can see that in my academic results and the thing is, I know I can work harder (and I want to) but it just seems so boring to me... The subjects are just not interesting enough and don't motivate me at all...
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Seeing as how you're in Spain. do you have Math, Science, History, and Spanish as your core subjects instead of (our) Math, Science, History, English?
 
anjinhamarota said:
I found out that I had the ability to memorize useless facts when I realized that I still remembered that the total area of china is 9,562,904 sq. km, a fact that I memorized when I was in the 3rd grade... :eek:
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Heh. Mine's the serial number on the back of The Sims jewel case. Had to type it in every time I installed it on my PC, waay back in the day, around 2001/2002.

101035-742685-667654-4657

Hope that's legal. And as you can guess, I reinstalled the game quite often, along with the Windows™ it ran on. Darned spyware/adware...
 
I get good grades and learn quickly. Does that qualify me as book smart?

I also forget things that I don't use quickly. Does that make my mind like swiss cheese?

SLC
 
fireshot91 said:
Seeing as how you're in Spain. do you have Math, Science, History, and Spanish as your core subjects instead of (our) Math, Science, History, English?
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I was born in Perth, Scotland. My mother is originally from Barcelona and my Father is English. So by those means I'm trilingual: I speak English, Spanish and Catalan fluently. I lived in Scotland until I was 8 years old and now I'm currently living in Spain.
As I'm in Catalonia (Inside Spain), the main language is Catalan (Considered a dialect, but that's not the case). So the main subjects are: Maths, Catalan, Spanish, History & Geography. They're all taught in Catalan, except Spanish which is taught obviously in Spanish. So yes, answering your question those are the main subjects here. I do plan to go to university in either Scotland, England or America. Though I find Spain and it's language interseting, I prefer English as a language and also as a culture (if you know what I mean).

Ams.
 
I consider myself to be fairly intelligent... I pick up on concepts quite fast, and can remember most things without having to do a ton of studying.

My problem is that I'm not quite smart enough to get straight A's (at least at the schools I've been at) without even trying, and don't care enough about school to do the work required for those sorts of grades. So instead I've gotten A's/B's my whole life, and while that in addition to good tests and such was enough to get me into a very good high school, it wasn't enough for an MIT/Cal Tech type of college. However, I'm fairly happy with where I am and willing to work hard in pretty much everything other than what I see as useless school work, so I'm not too worried about being able to find a good job after college :)
 
anjinhamarota said:
I found out that I had the ability to memorize useless facts when I realized that I still remembered that the total area of china is 9,562,904 sq. km, a fact that I memorized when I was in the 3rd grade... :eek:
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You never know when that may come in handy......um, it could happen. "You've got the job, but only if you an answer the following question....."
 
There is a stereotype at the place I live: "All Mac users are geeks with glasses who read a lot and are super-smart." :)
 
Well to be honest I do not fit any of the poll options, as I am a mix of greatly above average in some areas, and greatly below average in other areas.

According to my Educational Psychologist, I am within the top 4% of the population on Verbal Comprehension, the top 3% in Perceptual Reasoning, the top 23% for Working Memory, but my visual processing is in the bottom 10%, and overall, my I.Q. is 122. This is mainly due to dyspraxia, and dysgraphia which also result in me having a handwriting speed of 15 WPM. I am also heavily affected by what is very nearly chronic procrastination.
 
I think I'm pretty average when it comes to intelligence. My grades in school were always excellent (excluding math) but I'm a dumbass when it comes to using logic and making good decisions. I don't know my IQ but it has to be above 70 which is all that really matters.

I'm great at remembering useless facts though. I'm a GOD at Trivial Pursuit!
 
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I have above average intelligence, definitely street smart. Book smart I'm not. That never held me back job wise. I can fix just about anything mechanical and electrical. (I do that for a living)
 
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