-63 Very High IQ People Often Appear More Ignorant, amirite?

by Archibald71 5 months ago

That's because people with actual social skills don't join Mensa or brag about their IQ scores, so your sample is distorted. You're only hearing from the people who have high IQ but nothing else to talk about, and nothing else going for them.

by stephany36 5 months ago

Or they don't have a high IQ at all

by Anonymous 5 months ago

>That's because people with actual social skills don't join Mensa or brag about their IQ scores Not entirely correct with the first, but damn right about the second.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

No you're right about that. I suppose most people with very high iq, who are successful in life don't feel the need to look for support/attention in forums due to trauma, issues or insecurities etc.

by Archibald71 5 months ago

its not really that complicated. you can simplify your sentence to "I suppose most people with very high iq, who are successful in life don't feel the need to look for support/attention in forums due to trauma, issues or insecurities etc."

by Playful-Aardvark834 5 months ago

I can't tell if this was passive aggressive or well meaning, but they said that English isn't their first language.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Perfectly said

by Anonymous 5 months ago

At least you understood what I wrote, that's all I needed.

by Archibald71 5 months ago

Feel like the "very high iq people" should be in quotations in your title, as you're talking about people who claim their iq is super high, not people that actually do have said high iq. People with actual high iq will rarely struggle with any of these things listed unless they have like autism or some other condition, and tend to not actually boast about said iq.

by charlene28 5 months ago

It's part of why, in my experience at least, "good vibes" hires missing one or two teachable things work out way better than "technical savant with a bad attitude" damn near every time.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

It's not that i am too good for this world, it's that i feel like an alien in it. I don't understand how people function to be honest. I don't understand how they can go on and live their lives. As for most of my problems, I didn't screw up anything. Most of my problems come from disorders and trauma and no, they can't be completely addressed. It's amazing how much highly intellectual people struggle with mental health. There isn't a single one of my actions i can identify that is making things bad for me.

by Interesting_Ice_2382 5 months ago

You're proving their point. No matter what happens to you in your life you are still accountable and if you can't comprehend that then you will always have a negative mindset and feel like an outsider. You can't control what happens to you but you can always control how you react and respond to what happens to you

by Next-Wear4485 5 months ago

Oh I comprehend that, I just hate it and I'd rather not suppress my genuine reaction for the sake of fitting in because doing that makes me more miserable than being an outsider. Even if I controlled my reaction, would that undo the thing that happened? No, it's just something people say to shut me up

by Interesting_Ice_2382 5 months ago

Your problems from trauma and disorders aren't your fault, but they are your responsibility to overcome. Even if you can't blame your problems on an action, they likely can be blamed on an inaction.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

There isn't a single one of my actions i can identify that is making things bad for me. For starters, I've never met a >130IQ individual who refers to themself as lowercase "i"

by Anonymous 5 months ago

it's called being efficient

by Interesting_Ice_2382 5 months ago

Let's calculate just how "efficient" skipping capitalization really is. Assuming an average typing speed of 40 WPM: Time per keystroke: At 40 WPM, that's about 200 characters per minute (5 characters per word). - Time for one keystroke: 60 ÷ 200 = 0.3 seconds per keystroke. Typing "I" (with Shift): Adding the small extra time to hold Shift, we'll estimate this takes 0.4 seconds. Typing lowercase "i" (no Shift): This just takes the standard 0.3 seconds. Time saved per "i": By skipping Shift, they save: 0.4 - 0.3 = 0.1 seconds per 'i'. Daily savings: Let's say they type "I" (or "i") 100 times a day: - Total time saved: 100 × 0.1 = 10 seconds per day. TL;DR: By typing "i" instead of "I," you're saving 10 seconds per day at the cost of looking sloppy and unintelligent. Perhaps your narrative of "everyone else causing your problems" simply isn't true.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

It takes the average person that much, not someone who has disorders that affect how information is processed. And I never said everyone else, I am referring to reality/nature for giving me disorders and putting me with abusive parents, for not caring about fairness. Now are you gonna get serious or look for grammar mistakes?

by Interesting_Ice_2382 5 months ago

But I am not awkward. I am just not satisfied. I've spoken to people, I've had relationships and it wasn't worth the effort

by Interesting_Ice_2382 5 months ago

Fair enough.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Impressive! You've turned the Dunning-Kruger effect into a self-referential loop by misunderstanding it while trying to sound clever using it.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Your bed england is accepted. Having a high IQ doesn't relieve them of being emotional animals with a personal history based psychology. Their early formed assumptions may be flawed, however smart they are, if they've never considered them.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

High IQ people are ridiculed by others who are confident in the very little they know. They don't understand complexity and only consider a small number of factors when it comes to anything. They don't think very thoroughly about things. They tend to halfass and guesstimate everything, being totally convinced they are right and succeeding in life.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Most people who brag about having a high IQ are usually extremely arrogant and insufferable.

by catalina67 5 months ago

Iq is in no way connected to willpower.

by CommercialFace2097 5 months ago

Intelligence is a temporary state for anyone who possesses it. No one is smart all the time. Everyone is prone to idiocy.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

wouldn't say ignorant, arrogant would be more apt.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Being troubled and being intelligent arent mutually exclusive.

by Intelligent_Stop 5 months ago

IQ tests are generally just pattern recognition and not a true indicator of intelligence. Most genuinely smart people don't care about IQ and likely haven't even taken the test. They also recognize their own ignorance as no one can truly know everything. So even if someone has a high IQ because they took the test at some point years ago, they may not actually be "smart" or socially intelligent.

by Iprohaska 5 months ago

IQ is an outdated concept, it cannot be measured consistently, and it obviously only probes a part of cognitive capacities. There are many other tests now, and many of them will probe also psychomotoric, social, or emotional intelligence in a measurable way (e.g., can you figure out the inner emotional state of a person from watching footage of them.) Quantifying "intelligence" is generally hard, since people rarely agree on what it is. I like to think of it as "given the same information and physical means, which person will manage the best outcome?" The person who manages best is the most intelligent. The fun fact is that the ultimate outcome you should aim for is "be happy and fulfilled, in the long term and in a sustainable way". So are those unhappy "high IQ" people intelligent? In this sense they are not.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

The people you describe do not have that high of an IQ, it's high but not very high

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Youll be fine find your people, enroll in some stem courses or activities

by Anonymous 5 months ago

The word you are looking for is arrogant and not ignorant but yes. The key word being appear. That is, they are not actually. I expect the majority echo chamber of extroverts to now rush in with cheap insults to bring you down to their level.

by Anonymous 5 months ago