Smarter than 99.9% of the rest of us (2005)

https://www.denverpost.com/2005/06/20/smarter-than-99-9-of-the-rest-of-us/

by paulpauper • 3 years ago

8 5 3 years ago

Its just a guy living his life so nothing against him, but building a self image around how smart you are is so cringe, and then for him to agree to be interviewed about it?

I suppose this shows wisdom isnt directly correlated with mental aptitude.

paulpauper• 3 years ago

i don't understand, or at least it does not make sense, how IQ is cringe but other human innate attributes such as height or strength are not. bragging about one's bench press is accepted but not IQ?

eindiran• 3 years ago

It's because there is a strong perception (at least in American culture) that g (or more specifically our best metric of it, IQ) should translate into accomplishment, productivity, or usefulness of some kind before you are allowed to brag about it. In my experience, most people report feeling a kind of disappointment or wastefulness when high-IQ people don't accomplish anything notable, so someone bragging about their IQ in a vacuum feels cringey.

Smarter than 99.9% of the rest of us (2005)

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