It’s great! You always have full confidence in yourself, your actions and your convictions.
if you believe in IQ tests you’re already an expert
Long Covid with ME has made me increasingly dumber. It sucks bad. I have difficulty finding words, following conversations, understanding long texts and just plain remembering things. It’s devastating to be more stupid but knowing that you could do better.
Just a few minutes ago I said I couldn’t play Leisure Suit Larry 7 because it’s too hard. Sucks ass.
Ask Trump?
if it gets low enough that you dont understand how bad off you are, its apparently not that bad.
What do you mean with “IQ”?
I don’t understand.
Too highbrow, gtfo smarty smart man.
dunno
You get to lead the most powerful nation in the world
“Must be at least this rich to ride”
I read that as lead, not lead.
Bazinga
China?
I can never not
gethear him say that word when I read it. And he somehow made it sound dirty.Edit: I should really pay attention to what stroke laden nonsense spell check has “helped” me write.
I can’t can to.
You’re always playing catchup when in a conversation with others; they’re racing ahead on the topic, already knowing both sides of the discussion and throwing their own spin on it, and you’re just sitting there staring at them mouth-agape as you try to process what is being said in realtime, but can’t quite grasp even the base concepts nor the terminology of what they’re talking about because their shop talk is so far removed from the baseline that it’s practically a whole subject in itself.
The smart thing to do is to just interject quickly with simple questions to highlight your supposed ignorance, and get some quick definitions to keep you at least somewhat up-to-date in the conversation.
But you don’t… either too ashamed of your own ignorance to draw attention to it, or rejecting it outright instead of facing the humiliation and telling yourself that you’re not that interested in the topic anyway.
That’s how it feels to me, anyhow
This is simply a symptom of not being experienced in or knowledgeable in the topic of the conversation.
Not being knowledgeable, or not being smart, is unrelated to IQ. Knowing a great deal about a topic or field is not the same as having a high IQ.
For what it’s worth, I’m very familiar with that feeling too, despite excelling academically and a high score on IQ tests. Ignorance is not a lack of intelligence, it’s more likely a lack of experience. And every culture, job and hobby will have their own terminology and assumed knowledge, so not even the Einsteins could pretend to already know it all.
I listen to music all the time, I’ve composed amateur music myself, and enjoy occasionally reading wikipedia for trivia of music theory, but if two musicians start talking about basic stuff like major and minor chords I’m already out of my depth. Do I do the smart thing and ask them to explain? Or do I just nod until they talk about something I know, or tell myself I don’t actually care about music theory?
I also apparently have high IQ according to online tests and my mind still glazes over conversations even when it’s a topic that I’m supposedly an expert on. I know all the words. If you were then down and I read them, I’ll be able to make perfect sense of them. But a real time conversation? Forget it.
Honestly, that’s a nuanced take on the nature of conversation. I’m sure you’ve got a good head, you’re just not a nerd like them.
Thank you.
There was a guy on youtube once who uploaded a video talking about this who has the channel name “crazydumbsick”.
Unfortunately I can’t seem to find the video as it looks like he regularly deletes content, and it currently only goes back about a month on his channel at present.
Take everything below with a block of salt because this is from memory, and it was a few years back where I watched his video once, so I could be misremembering one or more things here.
If I recall correctly he has Schizophrenia, Crohns, and an IQ of ~45, hence his channel name. He talked a lot about how hard it was to live, particularly pertaining to his IQ. He said that he has a hard time with remembering things and therefore most of his meals are made from pre-made microwaveable packages as he is capable of operating the microwave without too much difficulty, and he found it generally easy to follow the instructional lists on the packaging.
He made note that operating any kind of machine much beyond a microwave or TV remote was largely beyond him, except his computer and camera which he had recently figured out well enough to be able to record and upload content - but outside of those actions, he really had no idea how to use them.
I believe he also said that due to one or more of his conditions, he could not drive, which largely compounded the difficulties of his life.
He talked about how finding work for someone in his situation is basically impossible and just as impossible to hold onto for very long. I believe he talked about a couple jobs he had been fired from and why, and while I don’t recall the specifics, I believe he had talked about how he was not even entirely certain why he had been fired. I think he said that he had done some things incorrectly, and at the time, had some vague concept of them being incorrect, but despite this, he was unsure why he had gone ahead and done them anyway.
Overall, he seemed very sad in the video; he was terribly aware of how hard it is to live life being himself, and knew that there were basically no solutions to it.
Having said all of that, he continued to upload videos and there were some good events and some bad events. I believe at one or more times he discussed having tried to take his own life. Other times he seemed fairly upbeat and was trying to better himself - trying to read through a textbook on auto work for example.
Anyway, I think the original video I spoke about is one of the better videos I’ve seen uploaded to the internet. It was somewhat sad, but it was highly enlightening and certainly one of the most honest videos I’ve ever seen someone upload.
If you’re using IQ as a measure of intelligence, you probably already know.
They didn’t ask about intelligence, they asked about IQ.
In my experience, people are generally unaware of current events and history. They don’t understand basic math. They are very poor at critical reasoning and don’t comprehend things like evidence or facts, so they’re easily convinced by hunches or baseless claims prominent people make.
Why are you asking us? You’re the expert.
nyuk nyuk nyuk
I bet it’s fucking awesome.
Some idiot says “this is how things work” (and explains things in a way that aren’t true at all)
And then I’d be like “yeah that’s good enough for me.”
And I’d watch sports and not be worrying all the time.
As it is, I unfortunately see through most bullshit and realize im surrounded by people who don’t.
I am the scientist at the beginning of every disaster movie. Ignored until it is too late. Then blamed.
