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The smarter you are the more you are aware of all that you don't know. I am great at taking I.Q. tests, my best friend is not. My best friend stinks at taking I.Q. tests but she can accurately recap almost any movie or TV show she has watched in the past six months or, often, much longer ago than that. "Smart" is a very relative thing. In addition, there are very few "average" people. Many we might so pigeon hole have some amazing gifts we discover if we give ourselves a chance to get to know them.
Sure, we all have "gifts" yada, yada and so on, but this question is not about that.
When you consider that there are extremely intelligent people and, more than likely, extremely stupid people, and the largest mass of people falling more or less towards the middle of these two extremes, then roughly 50% of the responders should objectively answer "yes" and the other 50% "no." I don't believe this will be the case though.
That difference, between the 50% of actual intelligence and the percentage of responders who respond "above average" will be the percentage of people who are deluded and think themselves smarter than they actually are. This is the percentage I'm actually interested in knowing.
Interesting! Since an "average" roughly divides a population into two equal halves, objectively we should have gotten 50/50. Which means that 34% of the populace are actually stupider than they think they are. That's about one in three; are you one of the "1-in-3"?
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Yes.
The smarter you are the more you are aware of all that you don't know. I am great at taking I.Q. tests, my best friend is not. My best friend stinks at taking I.Q. tests but she can accurately recap almost any movie or TV show she has watched in the past six months or, often, much longer ago than that. "Smart" is a very relative thing. In addition, there are very few "average" people. Many we might so pigeon hole have some amazing gifts we discover if we give ourselves a chance to get to know them.
Sure, we all have "gifts" yada, yada and so on, but this question is not about that.
When you consider that there are extremely intelligent people and, more than likely, extremely stupid people, and the largest mass of people falling more or less towards the middle of these two extremes, then roughly 50% of the responders should objectively answer "yes" and the other 50% "no." I don't believe this will be the case though.
That difference, between the 50% of actual intelligence and the percentage of responders who respond "above average" will be the percentage of people who are deluded and think themselves smarter than they actually are. This is the percentage I'm actually interested in knowing.
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[1 point] 4 years ago by deleted user ReplyExactly "average," there are probably none. The question is about "above or below" a theoretical "average" and not about stating PC messages.
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[1 point] 4 years ago by deleted user ReplyAverage only means that you are the best of the lousiest and the lousiest of the best.
I like that summation.
Interesting! Since an "average" roughly divides a population into two equal halves, objectively we should have gotten 50/50. Which means that 34% of the populace are actually stupider than they think they are. That's about one in three; are you one of the "1-in-3"?
actually it could be a lot worse than that. The people who chose "no" might be the smart ones.
GEEZ, I don't know.