Are you intelligent?

Not really, no. I get 80’s and 70’s, but at least I am not stupid….for the most part…
I am smart and wise, though. Right?
I’ll wait for you all to get the joke

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I’m good at some things. I suck a most.

I think there’s a difference between being intelligent and knowledgeable. I think I’m relatively intelligent, but I’m not especially knowledgeable about most topics. There are specific subjects of which I am more knowledgeable than a lot of other people, and that can come from asking questions, reading, school, and personal experiences. Questioning and an insatiable thirst for more knowledge does not inherently make you intelligent, it just makes you curious.

Having said that, I’m not really sure what does make a person intelligent. Perhaps it is their capacity for knowledge and learning relative to the society they live in?

well i guess that proves im not intelligent :P
then again, im also pretty high right now….

I am with you Uber… I consider myself more intelligent than the average person but I could definitely be smarter. Just need to keep learning and I love to learn so that isn’t a problem. I think Starwars and 90’s kid were discusing test scores above? I do not think that tests at all constitute ones in intelligence. I can memorize all kinds of bullshit only to regurgitate it for a test and then forget it. I got a 27 on the ACT and went hungover and scored slightly above a moron on the math part. Tests do not make you intelligent, well at least no more than a parrot…

More so than some, less so than others.

I think that’s an excellent question, one that I think about often..
I second @johnpowell on the difference between knowledge and intelligence, and I used to stress about my “smartness.” I was given an IQ test and psychological evaluation as a kid, and upon recieving the results as a teenager, though my score was above average, I freaked that my brain would never have “genius” status. Since then, I’ve realized there’s no point to trying to measure your own intelligence—IQ, in the sense of intellectual capacity is generally a fixed number, but no matter what it is, the only thing you can do is your best. Living up to your full potential and learning as much as you can will make you the smartest person you could be.

I think i’m pretty intelligent… probably only in certain areas than others. Also, how do you define “intelligence”? Having high IQ scores or knowing how to fix a car? To me, intelligence is not just about being “book smart”. I believe that there’s there’s multiple forms of intelligence.

Indubitably smart.

I’m street smart. Does that count?

I think omfgTALIjusIMDu was pretty much on the money… with a slight variation. There is a trend in our society taht confuses intelligence with knowledge.

In the strictest form of the word “Intelligence” is the ability to solve problems, how well you do this, how quickly and how well you integrate the resources at your disposal in doing so will determine how smart you are… ergo you have a higher or lower IQ.

Knowledge is what people reffer to as “book-smart”. the more you know about any given topic doesn’t make you any smarter than the next person next to you who may not have any idea about it. The only difference is that one of the two people has more experience with a specific topic and/or has studied it whereas the other may be able to solve a complex problem in his or her head but may not be knowledgeable in most popular subjects.
Given that answer i can tell you that in my experience, no matter what your IQ (be it the average 80–100 or well above or below)... learning really enriches almost any experience if not all. If you go to a concert and you know the band and their songs you enjoy it all the more… at a baseball game, anyone there can enjoy it and have a great time, but those who delve a little deeper into the subject can get a little more out of it… that works with any topic.. any conversation… be it pop culture, science, philosophy, politics, music…. or Fluther :)

Sometimes. Then I do something stupid and I remember that I’m not.

In general I’d consider myself intelligent but sometimes I’m lacking in the simple kind of reasoning. I always miss the easy answer but am generally quick to come up with answers to more complex problems. :)

Favorite example of this: I was in Alaska in the summer doing research which included measuring fluorescence in the field. Our laser pointer broke and we couldn’t get it dark enough to see the fluorescence without it. My suggestion? “Let’s come back at night!” This was after having spent three weeks in Alaska, in the summer. When the sun does not go down.

I don’t think I’m intelligent. I don’t think I’m not intelligent. There are a few reasons for this. First, it’s hard to say what people mean when they talk about intelligence. For the most part, it seems to be culturally specific knowledge.

If that’s the case, I have a number of problems with that. I think there is a lot of important knowledge that people who are not culturally proficient have. I believe there’s a lot I can learn from everyone. I always have more to learn from someone else than they can learn from me, if I am humble enough to listen to them and watch them, and spend time with them.

The other reason why I don’t think about intelligence is because I don’t like the way people use it to establish status. It makes people feel good or bad depending on where they stand, and how they compare themselves to each other. Well, I’ve done that comparing, and it makes me feel like shit, and I’m pretty certain it does the same thing to a lot of people. Except for one person, we are all less intelligent than someone else, maybe a lot of someones else.

This results in serious hurt feelings and petty attacks and grievances. It makes it very hard for people to feel like they are on the same team. It gives so-called intelligent people an excuse to say they are better than others, and therefore they should take leadership roles for which, they may not be qualified at all.

Anyway, I figure it’s up to other people to decide. If they want to consider me intelligent, and that means something to them, go ahead. If they think I’m stupid, and that means something to them, fine. Just don’t tell me. Whatever you say, I’ll deny it.

Intelligent and a good student are not necessarily the same thing.

So like, I’m working on a PhD in neuroscience, which leads people to assume I’m smart, right?

This summer I went to visit a friend and had her keys to let myself into her apartment. I stood there for a good 7–8 minutes trying to unlock the front door and failing. Her neighbor walks by, offers me a hand, and unlocks it in about two seconds.

He later told my friend how nice she was for hanging out with that poor retarded girl.

Why is it that intelligence is so hard to define and ignorance is normally self evident?

i don’t know

lol4rl @nikipedia

Even Einstein couldn’t tie his shoe-laces.

I wasn’t born with any super-human intelligence. I think I’m fairly average by the books.. yet out of the box when out of the books.

I don’t think I’m that intelligent, but a lot of people seem to think I think I am. :( I love learning, am very curious, and actually like school, but I’m not that quick of a learner. I ca’nt spel and am not that great at math. I’m sort of street stupid but I’m not an idiot. In general I think that flutherers are smart cookies and that I’m about average. (I can tie my shoe-laces, if that gets me any points.)

I am so shitty at maths, sometimes I feel like a complete moron. I keep a calculator near, very near.

I figure I am. I skipped twice, made the number one High School in my area at the time, won a full scholarship to college and a few other things. I’ve had articles published and co-authored a book. One of my photographs is used in a newspaper ad. I’ve been tested and scored high.

Intelligent…probably. Intelligible…probably not.

In the classroom?
I’m average or less.
In life?
I’m average, or just plain crazy.

Intelligent compared to whom?

On a personal level, do you think of yourself as intelligent?
– Define intelligent.

i have like a 40 something in chemistry right now. but i’m so tired of people thinking that if you don’t excel at every subject in school, you’re not intelligent. i think that emotional intelligence holds a lot more value than knowing how to balance chemical equations, or even knowing grammar rules.
i don’t think i’m brilliant, but i don’t think i’m a moron.

@tiffyandthewall…i think of emotional intelligence as empathy

@PnL compared to yourself. When you think about devi do you think shes smart? :P

“Define intelligent.”
well really thats part of the question and what im asking you to do :P

I am most definitely Smrt.

I’m a member of Mensa. Whether that makes me intelligent or just good at IQ tests…

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one’s own ignorance.

so, yes I am

how about… “Stupid is as stupid does”? if this were so would it apply in the inverse to intelligent is as intelligent does? or is that more of a “fake it till you make it” kind of attitude?

I do not consider myself intelligent for much the same reasons you provided in your question.
I have found five ways to stop learning:
1 Choose a belief
2 Draw a conclusion
3 Form an opinion
4 Pass/make a judgment
5 ignore my ignorance

Most people I have come across that do these 5 things often consider themselves intelligent. Though I guess it should be said that most people think themselves intelligent, and most people do these five things, so the causal relation is up for debate :) And more often than not, it appears to me they can learn very little, because of their gathering of evidence to support and defend said judgments, opinions, beliefs, etc.
I do not want to stop learning and discovering truth, so I do not want to be like these people. If they are indeed intelligent, I much prefer to know that I am stupid and have a long ways to go. Amongst my friends, being called intelligent is a slight :)

My father and I once had a discussion about religion (his christianity versus my… nothing, maybe taoism). I pointed this concept out as best I could, that he chose a reality from options instead of continuing to try and find the truth. He said he has no intentions of spending the rest of his life doubting everything, so on and so forth, but in so saying, he also said that he had chosen a belief system that he would consider true, and would not pursue learning other systems, truths, perspectives, etc. It blows my mind that he chose to not learn in favor of having an immediate answer that satisfies, but could just as well be inaccurate. He chose a reality instead of continuing to discover ours! Later I learned why people might do this, many reasons why they might do this actually. I only add this for insight.

He later came to me explaining that holistic theories, perspectives, religions, (pick a word) do not allow for free will. This was a fantastic example of how once one chooses, they tend to only gather information that supports their own chosen concepts. They only get emails that further support their realities, because they surround themselves with like minds. They only read books that agree with their way of thinking. My father would never even consider reading Dawkins: The God Delusion. I tried to explain how taoism is far from opposed to free will. I don’t recall if he understood it or not.