Do you think you're above average intelligence, Why is that?
I’ll say yes without any narcisism and i’ll try to explain why.Right. So i live in France, and in France, people are often rude, not polite and egoist as much, while they ironically act like they are intelligent, they often smoke pot and drinking a lot of alcohol, oversocialize them and stick to do only one thing in life.We clearly saw that the most intelligent people likes to learn new things often and tends to be generalist. (I call myself as one but this is more to describe who i am than saying that i am really one of them). So i do think i’m intelligent because i got qualities others rejects because of society nametags such as being :Polite (Interpretated as weak people speaking,Wise(Interpretated as being a quiet idiot guy),Not narcisic, which is clearly one of the thing who shows if an idiot is thinking he is a king while is not.Independant in the term that i dont need friends to live and do things i coudln’t without them even if i like to have a few really nice ones.Now to talk about something less subjective, i do think i am intelligent because i try to learn the more things i can; to be interested to much things i can do and to be polyvalent, and determinated in each of thoses domains i try to put myself in.I think being intelligent is a mix of good person qualities and a polyvalent way of living the life. But for me being intelligent is firstly, not having an over-sized ego, and after, only after, it’s a matter of qualities, knowledge and etc.Hope it helped.
Do most people think that they have above average intelligence?
Look up Illusory Superiority and the Downing effect. Downing says that the ability to accurately estimate other people's IQs is proportional to one's own IQ. People with higher IQs tend to estimate another person with a similar IQ to be higher than themselves. Seems like the smarter you are the more you're likely to admit your ignorance, and vice versa. Also, the Dunning-Kruger effect explains a lot about this type of behavior.Like Socrates said,I know that I know nothing.
Do you think that well-off people, on average, are more intelligent than people of low social position? If....?
NO. As the other answerers have said, there are many types of intelligence. A formal education is only one type, that has to be bought. It's usually bought by rich parents of privileged children. Some people don't learn anything in school, because the opportunity of college is handed to them and they don't appreciate it. Nobody choses the world or family into which they are born - nobody choses to be born into a family that struggles to meet their daily needs or lacks access to education and social capital. Social capital is how many people get wealthy and stay wealthy. It means who you know, how you look, and your abilities to bs your way through things b/c you seem like the "good type." Schools, politics and standardized tests are also designed to favor and promote the middle and upper class, white, male. Thus, making it easier for them to get ahead. It doesn't make you better than other people that you don't have to work as hard to get ahead or stay alive and thus, accumulate wealth more easily than others. If you think that it does, read Nickel and Dimed in America. It's not as easy to pull yourself up by your bootstraps as many think it is.
Are most people on Yahoo! Answers of below average intelligence?
My IQ is 138. IQ tests will measure the knowledge that one has learned. That score can always be raised. Scientists have now found that emotional IQ is as important if not more so than just intelligence. I wonder what your emotional score would be? High, above average, average? Or perhaps below average emotional IQ?
Why are individuals with above average IQ or intelligence prone to manic depression and melancholy?
Hi AstroLady :) Without being an expert or anything on this one, I can assume that since humans are destined to be social beings, it is rather hard for those people to lead a complete/healthy life as they have less chances of meeting an equivalent. As Aristotle said, he who lives alone is either a god or a beast...And I suppose that someone who is already prone to pessimism would probably find it difficult to fight against it alone. Intelligent people are sensitive to things/issues which are not really that obvious or important to the rest. As a result, they may be inclined to spend their energy trying to contribute to the situation, while not only do others not pay attention to it, but probably behave in such a way which makes their attempt feel difficult and possibly in vain... Taking all these into account, I would think that intelligent people DO have to pay a price for this "gift" of theirs and they do it through being conscious, exposed to their own worries (because obviously no one else really sees a point in getting worried, anyway) and carrying the burden of responsibility. I believe that trying to reach the standards of your own conscience can be a pretty difficult task....It's probably this exact exposure to the world's vanity that causes them to feel disappointed....And of course, since they are prone to feeling like that all the time, it may possible evolve and turn into depression and melancholy. I estimate that the more intelligent and therefore sensitive a person is,the more are the chances of his/her becoming emotionally involved in problems concerning humanity and possibly ending up depressed during an attempt to fix them. edit: Go, r_a! Hey, nice Mars, lol :D
Do you consider yourself intelligent? Why?
From Everyone thinks they are above averageIn studies, most people overestimate their IQ. For instance, in a classic 1977 study, 94 percent of professors rated themselves above average relative to their peers. In another study, 32 percent of the employees of a software company said they performed better than 19 out of 20 of their colleagues. The phenomenon, known as illusory superiority, is so stubbornly persistent that psychologists would be surprised if it didn't show up in their studies, said David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell who has studied the effect for decades.As many answerers have pointed out, the phenomenon is called the Dunning-Kruger effect. I believe the underlying explanation is that the only thing humans care about is maintaining dopamine flow. And since dopamine is triggered by safety, power, acceptance, approval, attention, esteem, and status (Abraham Maslow called them Deficiency needs) people simply lie (to themselves and others) about their intelligence (and just about everything else*) because the deception both protects and artificially inflates their sense of acceptance, approval, status, and dopamine flow. *In his book, Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage, Paul Ekman estimates, “The average person lies three times per ten minutes of conversation.”Back to lying about intelligence: It doesn't help that 100 was chosen as the arbitrary mean for IQ which (intended or unintended) turned out to be conveniently misinterpreted (since 100% on tests represents a perfect score). The results are interesting. Few people seem intelligent enough to understand that a 100 IQ equates to being as intelligent as half the population, which is not very intelligent. Meanwhile, people with 150 IQs consider themselves geniuses. I suspect the world would be a better place if the mean had been set at 50. It would be interesting to see if "geniuses" would be so eager to trigger dopamine by bragging about their 75 IQs. (Yes, I've heard most of the arguments against using IQ scores to represent intelligence. Please spare me.)