sunshower wrote:
Apx wrote:
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I think in a way it really sucks having a 120-130 IQ (if we must use this biased measure of intelligence). Because you're intelligent enough to understand there is greater complexity and deeper understandings out there, but you're not intelligent enough to comprehend them properly.
Is that really how they feel? I don't know if they really think about it.
This is how I feel; I'd estimate my IQ to be between 120-130 according to my school results and other things (although I was tested at age 12 on the Weisner-? scale I think it was and my IQ was listed between 97-99, but I am fairly certain this is inaccurate due to my consistent scoring within the top 3 percentile of the state). I guess I can't really speak for others though, I'll give you that.
I'm sorry I upset you, I didn't mean to, I guess I've hardly ever found people with a slightly lower (but still intellectual) IQ assume I'm less intelligent. Although, very occasionally someone assumes I'm mentally ret*d because they have no real understanding of what Aspergers is.
I do feel a little like that too
MrDiamondMind wrote:
Hey, I definitely know what you're talking about. These people with just above ret*d I.Q.s, which I identify to be at the 120 mark, are some of my "favorite" people. They think that since they're smarter than construction workers, this immediately allows them to compete with Nobel laureates and computer scientists.
My brother's friend happens to be such a person. Since he has a small bookshelf full of sci-fi books (among others) and majored in political science (
so intimidating!), he thinks he can respond to my non-obvious and non-conventional remarks in an overconfident and trying-to-falsify tone. He fails miserably and always gets put in his place.
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There is hardly peoples on the 120-130 that I know (I hardly frequent peoples in real life.) , except maybe for one of my brothers and he's quite mature. So I don't know much about that and if I'm one of them.
On internet I'm frequently around peoples who are over 130, IQ wise (Or at least should be.), they generally quite interesting and I don't know how to say... Alive...
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