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re: Explain, if you allow.. Everyone here is 130+ IQ
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:00 pm to lsu777
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:00 pm to lsu777
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i do find it funny so many on here claim to be 130 plus, never did gifted and then majored in liberal arts degrees from LSU barely passing college trig.
I'll very quickly tell you that I don't have a college degree. I fricked off, smoked weed, skipped class too much and eventually got my scholarship taken, then tops went bye bye, then I just dropped out. Now I'm a salesman in an industry full of guys with engineering degrees. Wish I would have thought it all through
because learning even the base level stuff that I know on the fly through self education and training isn't fun. The problem is that having a degree, even an advanced one, is not really an indicator of general intelligence. It is an indicator of enough intelligence and a work ethic to see it through. It is respectable and admirable, but I have met many people with exponentially more official education than me who wouldn't be considered more than slightly above average intelligence. If advanced degrees required advanced intelligence, lawyers, doctors and engineers would be rare and not what we see today.
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Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:05 pm to ShoeBang
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I'll very quickly tell you that I don't have a college degree. I fricked off, smoked weed, skipped class too much and eventually got my scholarship taken, then tops went bye bye, then I just dropped out. Now I'm a salesman in an industry full of guys with engineering degrees. Wish I would have thought it all through because learning even the base level stuff that I know on the fly through self education and training isn't fun.
The problem is that having a degree, even an advanced one, is not really an indicator of general intelligence. It is an indicator of enough intelligence and a work ethic to see it through. It is respectable and admirable, but I have met many people with exponentially more official education than me who wouldn't be considered more than slightly above average intelligence. If advanced degrees required advanced intelligence, lawyers, doctors and engineers would be rare and not what we see today.
The degree was only one small part of his post.
I have a close friend from gifted who is smart and didn't get a degree. Another has a degree and probably has a min 140 IQ and he had shitty GPA in high school. A guy I met in Honors College came from LSMSA and was in advanced-level math as a 1st semester frosh and he dropped out to deliver pizzas (so he could smoke weed all day).
But all of those guys were in Gifted and they could all do trig.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:05 pm to SlowFlowPro
If they did an iq test for gifted they never told me what I got
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:10 pm to SlowFlowPro
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But all of those guys were in Gifted and they could all do trig
Is trig supposed to be some kind of benchmark to be impressed by? I don't mean that to be facetious.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:11 pm to ShoeBang
I'd go with calculus (real calc, not business calc) but he's the engineer so I defer to him.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:11 pm to TexasTiger33
quote:I'm not sure I need to step up for SFP.
Do you ever shut the frick up? You need to sit the frick down and quit being an asinine clown, dumbass.
frick you
But he at lest puts up.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:13 pm to el Gaucho
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el Gaucho
quote:Mine was negative. The frick?
If they did an iq test for gifted they never told me what I got
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:16 pm to drizztiger
I have this theory that a SOLID % of those random/insane responses to me are people who know me IRL just fricking with me. Sometimes I think the people on the poli board who argue like a 75-IQ and are belligerent are in the same boat. Just too stupid to believe, so I cope by thinking it's a ruse to see how much patience I'll have.
I prefer that to thinking these are organic responses form people who live life in the real world.
I prefer that to thinking these are organic responses form people who live life in the real world.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:19 pm to lsu777
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even the ones with masters brag about barely getting into grad school. its quite comical.
Grades in college are much more of a reflection of self-control and/or choosing to do well in school. The people you mentioned probably just had a bunch of fun in undergrad so that's not a measure of raw intelligence. Some of the most successful people I know were C students.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:22 pm to SlowFlowPro
I get that. I don't know you IRL other than FF.
I don't poli at all. I hate it.
I don't poli at all. I hate it.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:27 pm to SlowFlowPro
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I have this theory that a SOLID % of those random/insane responses to me are people who know me IRL just fricking with me.
Now this is some classic SFP trolling right here. Never change, baw. Never change.
I never said you weren't smart. I always acknowledge that you are at least above average intelligence. I just believe you are a contrarian troll with a need to let yourself know how smart you are by always being the "reasonable" one while engaging those who like to speak a little more freely here than they can in real life.
I have a family member just like what you present yourself as here. Disagrees with everyone, while making sure he says things in a way where he never takes an actual position on anything other than disagreeing with whatever is said. Then, when his opponent gets mad, he can mercifully end the conversation for politeness' sake because now he has the moral high ground and walk away patting himself on the back for being the reasonable one.
I've watched you do the exact same thing countless times on the poli board. The sad part is that it works every time.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:28 pm to SlowFlowPro
quote:Sorry bro. I had to read it again.
I have this theory that a SOLID % of those random/insane responses to me are people who know me IRL just fricking with me. Sometimes I think the people on the poli board who argue like a 75-IQ and are belligerent are in the same boat. Just too stupid to believe, so I cope by thinking it's a ruse to see how much patience I'll have.
I prefer that to thinking these are organic responses form people who live life in the real world.
You understand that most of these posters can't find a bed.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:31 pm to HouseMom
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Grades in college are much more of a reflection of self-control and/or choosing to do well in school. The people you mentioned probably just had a bunch of fun in undergrad so that's not a measure of raw intelligence. Some of the most successful people I know were C students.
100% can be the case
but i can tell you, i dated a girl at LSU that her and 3 roommates were all in elementary education....and ill just say its not surprising that they barely passed the praxis test. all had close to a 4.0 and most had to take the test couple times to past so i understand that grades arent the end all be all
what i am saying is that 130+ iq dont struggle with classes like college trig and if they major in things like elementary education, they dont struggle to pass the basic praxis test.
they struggle in things like linear algebra, differential equations, thermodynamics, physics, hydraulics, or advanced accounting classes or advanced law classes etc
you dont struggle in basic high school level classes when you have a 130+ iq
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:32 pm to 777Tiger
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just how big a bus we talking about here, baw?
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:35 pm to SlowFlowPro
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I have this theory that a SOLID % of those random/insane responses to me are people who know me IRL just fricking with me. Sometimes I think the people on the poli board who argue like a 75-IQ and are belligerent are in the same boat. Just too stupid to believe, so I cope by thinking it's a ruse to see how much patience I'll have.
I prefer that to thinking these are organic responses form people who live life in the real world.
i mean i know who you are in real life and know you are pretty damn smart according to plenty of mutual acquaintances but you do troll.....just like i do.
but i will admit many times on the poliboard people get mad at you for the same reason they get mad at me....being more libertarian and pointing out where things could go wrong
consider that a curse of being highly intelligent....we tend to think 2 or 3, and sometime even more, steps down the line and realize how quickly something could go bad
its kind of like the curse of always feeling like you are waiting forever for someone to finish a story when you have figured out the ending after like 2 seconds.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:36 pm to lsu777
I thought making the leap from high school to college was going to be a big one, but high school was largely harder than college OUTside of western civ Honors year 1. That class broke people and made multiple kids from LSMSA melt down and/or cry at times.
I cracked the code to get good grades in the writing portion of it (without reading the source material mind you or really participating in the seminar) but the final for the lecture portion was still a motherfricker.
But, it was worth it because, as Dr. Hardy explained, "an educated person knows the difference in a Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian column".
*ETA: I did take the lazy route though instead of engineering. I almost switched to phsyics, though, which probably would have been the worst path of the 3
I cracked the code to get good grades in the writing portion of it (without reading the source material mind you or really participating in the seminar) but the final for the lecture portion was still a motherfricker.
But, it was worth it because, as Dr. Hardy explained, "an educated person knows the difference in a Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian column".
*ETA: I did take the lazy route though instead of engineering. I almost switched to phsyics, though, which probably would have been the worst path of the 3
This post was edited on 1/12/26 at 1:37 pm
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:36 pm to SlowFlowPro
To answer the original question I think that this board probably skews higher iq wise because social media is a retard magnet with its flashing lights and instant gratification so someone who is on a text based message board is probably smarter on average
The people on the sports message boards are probably dumber on average than the general populace because imagine caring that much about sports
The people on the sports message boards are probably dumber on average than the general populace because imagine caring that much about sports
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:39 pm to Auburn80
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130 is smart but not gifted. I think 145+ gets into the highly gifted range.
130 is the 98th percentile
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:41 pm to lsu777
Well politics has gotten really popular for people who don't know anything about politics and got a degree from Twitter/X university, but who, in their most Dunning-Kruger, are infinitely confident that they have real insight. So just getting into the BASICS without USING CAPS to OWN THE LIBS is largely impossible.
Most of the people posting on the poli board don't have a fundamental understanding of the topics being discussed. Sadly, lots of people who DO, who have a history of being non-idiots on there, have devolved greatly into the conspiratorial and/or black pill mindset. Due to reliance on either mindset you can't have a productive conversation with those people, either.
Most of the people posting on the poli board don't have a fundamental understanding of the topics being discussed. Sadly, lots of people who DO, who have a history of being non-idiots on there, have devolved greatly into the conspiratorial and/or black pill mindset. Due to reliance on either mindset you can't have a productive conversation with those people, either.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:44 pm to el Gaucho
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To answer the original question I think that this board probably skews higher iq wise because social media is a retard magnet with its flashing lights and instant gratification so someone who is on a text based message board is probably smarter on average
Not only this but it's focused around a population that skews not only to degreed individuals, but is incredibly disproportionate in terms of the graduate/professional degreed population.
But yes, the IQ varies by board.
Also, I imagine that certain boards skew how they perceive their intelligence more. In my life certain hobbies/interests show patterns that I imagine are reflected on this board. Like the outdoor board is probably smarter than they perceive themselves, but the music board is the opposite.
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