Do you believe you are smarter than most other people?

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average "curiosity" will yield more than "gifted" apathy.

yes. that's because I am. doesn't do me all that much good, though.

All my life I`ve been told that I am. I choose not to believe those idiots.

Being able to put whole pictures together from isolated facts qualifies as intelligence in my book.

Remaining ignorant of the way human society works for half a century is disability, not a failure of intelligence.

If obvious geniuses regard you as a genius, that's probably a good sign.

im on the fence when it comes to this question. i consider my self pretty innovative and creative. i find im the type that will see a challenging problem and find that i can usually attack with the different angle that causes that unseen idea or solution to be exposed. im also really good at reprogramming my mind to believe different things i.e. i've actually been out side in freezing temperature for an hour with a t-shirt and actually didn't suffer the pain from the cold because i mentally reprogramed my believe that "cold" is a painful feeling.

I am however horrible when it comes to short term memory and understanding instructions. tell me to do something that involves four different steps, and i've already lost you. i need them written down in order to remember them. i'm also horrible when it comes to fallowing directions. often i struggle with understanding simple written or verbal instructions. i think it's because i have trouble with making inferences. this can in a large effect make me struggle on daily things such as fallowing directions or passing classes in school. i have adhd and that can exasperate the problem even more. i often feel like im not smart sometimes because of this but then i try to remind myself all the other strong points i have with regard to my mental abilities and feel better. i think a lot of my limit in regards to my intellectual abilities comes from actually believing i'm less smart then i really am and hence programming this belief on long term basis and eventually integrating this idea in a habitual force within the trenches of my daily thought processes.

Well, my last official IQ test score was 139. But, while trying to find out what Stephen Hawking's IQ is, I found a quote from him that he had no idea what it was, and those boasting about it are losers. That being said Hawking's is estimated to be at least 160... so just from IQ score I can't really know if I'm really THAT far above average.

But since so many people have described me as "smart" to "genius", I went ahead and answered yes.

I'm not sure I can really estimate a single "social IQ" for myself either. Around the most annoying NT's it seems like mine is as low as 40, but with true friends (and other Aspies!) it can feel more like 100+. So if I had to give a number for social IQ, I'd say 70.

And it does feel like to me that most of my friends have average intelligence or better. Maybe I'm just drawn to smart people!

As for whether I'd trade IQ points for social skills... probably not. I'd like to work for a company that APPRECIATES intelligence - even intelligence FAR ABOVE mine - and doesn't automatically require salesperson-level social skills for every kind of job. I certainly don't want to be surrounded by salespeople in the workplace! If anything I'd sacrifice a few social skills for a few more IQ points!!

Yes.

IQ @ 16 = 140

I don't give much weight to IQ though, one reason being "do they mean like this or that" on the questions. So many possibilities, how is one supposed to know which one to use? Deductive reasoning doesn't help much on a lot of Qs neither.

Another reason being I prefer Howard Gardeners 7 intelligences model.

I read that undiagnosed ADHDers use their higher functions to work through spatial deficits, thus building their deductive and logical thinking skills.

Intelligence is subjective, many people think if you know a lot of facts that makes you smart... LOL...

No, to me, intelligence is the ability to figure out something and learn something new without knowing any thing about the subject.

I was working on a model, the ultimate system model of learning, which basically was going to be a core set of skills a person needs to accel at any thing. I mean, information is overrated. You got to college/university to learn skills, info is often irrelevant.

Due to my ODD nature I often challenge people on stuff I haven't got a clue about, and actually i'm sucessful in most part because of skills i've unconsciously developed.
For example, I never finished secondary school (@16) (high school in US) but yet I can crush so called uhm what's the word? xD
Idk, lol. So called "Elite intellectuals" though I enjoy trolling, lol.

Yes i'm smarter than most people. I've met very few who's level of intelligence I respect. Hopefully I've just been in the wrong crowds.
Feels kinda lonely sometimes when no one "gets you".

I could type more about the subject of intelligence since I know a fair amount about it (pre diagnosis ADHD-ASD I attempted 4 years of hardcore self improvement and failed, managed to retain a few bits of info though)

PS I'm smarter than everyone here

i have reconsidered the question and i found a new idea to explore.

i have always found that i understand what i am saying more than my audience does.
if i am correct in what i am trying to say, and they fail to understand what i say, then i feel "smarter " than them if they understood the wording but fail to see the point.

but the subject i am trying to convey may be very simplistic in the minds of any audience who may listen, and that is why they may relegate it to the twirling finger gesture (aimed at their temple).


i know what i know and they what they know. i have thought many thoughts alone, and they may have thought more of their thoughts in a cooperative think tank (as it were)

i do have peculiar messages that i discover and desire to say that i know could not be framed into words (my shortcoming or the dictionary's), so they remain ubnsaid.

but they are known by me so i guess i sometimes think i know the truth about many things average people never consider.

QFT.

'Yes' because I'm somewhat above average on the IQ scale, but I'm not that good at dealing with other human beings. IQ isn't even close to everything.

I sure hope not, or we're in a world of deep doodoo.

my subjective answer would be..

i can not compare my mind to other people's minds because i do not know what others are thinking, and even when they tell me what they are thinking, i cannot reason why they think what they do.
i do not consider them to be incorrect in thinking what they think, and i allow that i may not be able to see the "gem of logic" that may be inspiring their assertions.

to me, most people seem rather slow witted and devoid of personally derived knowledge (or even general knowledge), but it may be that it seems that way to me because i am blind to the "inspiration" coupled to their assertions.

i am either stupid or smart if i compare myself to normal people.

but i do not care to compare, and so i do not care very much to compete, so i will say my IQ is probably hard to determine.

To say that I am would imply that I am a pretentious fool, so no, I don't consider myself to be all knowing compared to the majority. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

in some ways my childhood was rather stereotypically asperger's. on paper i could do anything--scored off the charts--the school had never seen a student like me, & the teachers were rather in awe. but classroom activities bored me, i couldn't understand why the other kids did anything they did, & i practically didn't have anyone i talked to on more than the most superficial level. i carried a book or a stack of books at all times. i did not care for the rewards of being a good test-taker, & having read the Club of Rome report when it came out (i was, uh, 13?), i decided that people were going to destroy the world's ecosystems through sheer negligence & there was nothing i could do about it. (what has changed since then? a lot of it has simply come to pass: that's like watching the killer planet of Melancholia (the movie) approaching your whole life long.

when i went to college, however, i discovered other smart kids & especially the artistic ones, which made life more bearable. i grew disenchanted with any linear description of human abilities. there were many ways to be smart. and when i tried to get a job, i found i wasn't very smart at all... Myers-Briggs game me one kind of map that made sense. i was a kind of minority; alright. recently the autistic spectrum has given me another kind of map, maybe a better one for the person i seem to others (to myself i am nothing, i don't have a solid sense of self at all. there is no feeling of being smart; there's only the sense of everything around you, not being done right or very well.) certainly it explains, like nothing else has, the singular difficulty i have had in persuading others of my less-orthodox truths. something about me screams, "falsehood!"--& the content is never examined. there is the game, where people succeed at being gameplayers, & everything else of real value doesn't count. could i learn to play the game better? it hardly seems worth it, since i've never wanted what the game regards as prizes.

i would like to believe in intelligent/aware people working together in order to save the world. i wouldn't mind if the workers of the world rose up against their masters like the Marxists used to dream. i would even like to think there are enough rich, powerful oligarchs who care to have a world for their descendents to enjoy their inheritance in., & might moderate their violation of the elements at a lesser rate. apparently there aren't.

still, i consider myself very lucky to have lived at just this moment--

http://graywyvern.tumblr.com/post/30329 ... -conundrum

those coming after will have it a lot worse.

You could know everything about Roman and Greek history, but have no knowledge about pop culture and bands. You could be able to solve any problem regarding computers or technology, but have issues solving problems in real life, while other people can be the complete opposite. I don't compare my intelligence to other people based on this logic and the fact that I can't read their thoughts. They might be a genius but they can't express themselves the way/how they want to. EQ (emotional intelligence) can also be just as important as IQ.

I think you guys are all entirely too used to putting yourselves down. Haven't you met the people in this world? Most of them are idiots! It seriously doesn't take a genius to be smarter than 'most' other people. Just being willing/able to use your brain more than about 2% of your waking moments makes you 'smarter' than a decent percentage of people in my neck of the woods. Maybe I should move to one of the places you guys live - it'd be heavenly to live somewhere I don't get confused looks for using words with more than two syllables =/