30 ‘Smart’ People Who Showed Off Their IQ And Made Fools Of Themselves
I'm, like, totally smarter than you are. [Adjusts glasses; laughs in geek]. My genius IQ is over 9,000, and I play 5D chess in my spare time. Mozart? Bach? Those are for amateurs. Me? I only listen to the music that planets make in our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (it's 2.537 light-years away from Earth - bet you didn't know that). My favorite book is the Necronomicon. By the time I have breakfast every day, I've already come up with a hundred new fantastic ideas about how to improve the world, and my brain works at a 69.999% (recurring, of course) higher capacity than yours. I would've totally made a better protagonist than Yagami Light in Death Note. You wouldn't ever be able to comprehend my complex thoughts because, like, you're so beneath me, and I'm, like, super awesome. [Adjusts glasses again; uses inhaler]. Plebs.
Don't you just hate it when smart people start bragging about what high IQ they have when they're actually the complete opposite? There are those who think it's OK to be a show-off and an arrogant
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As a general rule of thumb, people tend to vastly overestimate their abilities and believe themselves to be exceptions to rules and tendencies. Right now you’re probably thinking how you’re way smarter than I am, and I’m thinking the exact same thing. We believe we’re special and have far more intricate inner-lives than others. That’s quite normal because we experience life only from our own perspectives, and we’re privy only to our own thoughts. Nonetheless, a shocking 65% of all Americans believe themselves to be of higher-than-average intelligence, according to this study. Wow! That’s a big number!
It’s easy to make fun of wannabe geniuses who shoot themselves in the foot with their comments, but real intelligence shouldn’t be made fun of. According to various studies, having a high IQ makes it more likely that you will be successful and rich and will live longer. Now, this doesn’t mean intelligence is the only factor that matters (and far from every scientist agrees with the conclusion about future success), but the importance of IQ shouldn’t be waved away, as though it means nothing.
I Guess He Just Doesn’t Like The Word
Props to that response. I would have just noted that the only "disgusting" thing was OP's spelling.
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon developed the first IQ (intelligence quotient) test in 1904, after the French government demanded they find a way to differentiate between lazy children and those with mental handicaps. The so-called Simon-Binet test, which was a combination of logical reasoning, finding rhyming words and naming objects, quickly became popular in the West.
The test was then modified in 1916, and called the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale. This became the standard IQ test used in the United States. Naturally, the test was revised and tweaked countless times, but it still remains popular to this day.
The IQ test didn’t make everyone happy, though. Psychologist David Wechsler thought the Stanford-Binet test was too limited, so in 1955 he created his own intelligence test: the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or WAIS. In modern times we currently have the fourth incarnation of the test, known as WAIS-IV. Wechsler also made tests specifically for children and preschoolers.
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I replicate my own DNA every day. My body is so advanced it is doing it on auto-pilot. Yesss. New cells are formed and my hair grows.
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Who’s the smartest person you know? Are you one of the rare people who don’t necessarily think they’re smarter than average? What do you think about IQ being an important predictor of success? Let us know in the comments!
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Only Us Thinkers Would Understand
That doesn’t make you a thinker, that makes you an insecure person who is unable to show emotion without feeling vulnerable because you’ve built up too much of a wall. (I say this as someone who is all of those things)
A True Ancient Greek Kid
Only Common People Get Excited For Things Like The Eclipse - Neil Degrasse Tyson Edition
When You Understand Chemistry Jokes Even Though It's Not Your Field.
The President
I will always remember when he stood before the United Nations, announcing that he had accomplished so much... and they laughed at him. Remember when we had presidents who could use complete sentences?
Setup An Old Army Buddy With A Girl I Knew. She Messaged Me After Their Date Saying He Kept Trying To Flex His Inteligence. Guess I Made A Mistake Thinking They Would Be A Good Match
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i love being peasant, nature and work is great for physical and mental health :D
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I used to get mad when people started to brag out of the blue about something they (thought they) have... And then, someone explained to me how that came from insecurities, and that they were not really trying to convince me or anyone else, but convince themselves, and I started to let it go and even not caring... And the fake bragging stopped too... sometimes!!
The thing is, there is a difference between being smart, and knowing things. Just because you have a high I.Q, does not mean you know everything. Also, because you know things, that does not necessarily mean you're smart. I'd like to think I'm somewhere in the middle, but in reality I'm probably a dumbass.
I like to think of it as academic smarts and street smarts. Those that are really high in one are generally challenged in the other. Both are needed and there is nothing wrong with being one or the other. Most people are middle line for both I think, plenty smart to earn a decent living and with common sense enough to get things done.
Yep. I have known lots of really smart people who didn't go to college. I've also know some really stupid people who had multiple degrees. Everyone is good at something, some people are good at many things, and other people's only talent is insulting everyone around them.
Exactly!
At least you're smart enough to realize your own limitations and possible shortcomings. Many aren't. :P
So intellectual capacity and being a knob aren't mutually exclusive.
If you need to brag, then you have nothing to brag about. --- My grandfather.
Meanwhile Socrates says: "One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom." See? The difference between truly smart people and the pseudo-geniuses.
An ounce of pretention is worth a pound of manure.
Lot of incels here, right?
And a lot of potential future shooters.
So many douchebags...
I know, right?!
NOTSOSWIFT IS NOTSOSMART
This whole post is just one big facepalm.
🙄
Every time I see these posts about how intelligent people brag about how smart they are, I'm reminded of the movie "Idiocracy." The intelligent people were so busy being smart and waiting until the "right moment" to have kids, that they never had kids while the low intelligence population had kids galore. Guess who was occupying the world in the future... Intelligence doesn't mean anything if you are incapable of forming social connections. It's like spending your whole life walking over everyone to be the richest person on Earth, then spending the rest of the time wondering if the people that are around you love you for the person you are or the money you have.
I tell ya..I was called FirstName "Brain" Lastname as a nickname in school. I was a National Merit Finalist without practicing (or even knowing what these tests were for). In fact, the fact that I didn't know what the tests were for is the first clue that I was not AT ALL intelligent. I was smart, very smart, but not intelligent. I got almost straight As in college, was considered a "rock star" first 1 1/2 years out of college, and then dive bomb. Because I'm not INTELLIGENT. I can't communicate with people. I'm a software developer, and it is still VERY imporrtant to be able to communicate. I can't read my son to save my life and he's 30. I still don't know him, can't read him, can't guess what he likes. I have had no friends since 1999. I have a career, but I've contributed nothing of note and my son is a great kid, but has never really been happy because I wasn't a good Mom. Smart doesn't mean intelligent, and smart doesn't mean accomplished. And even intelligent doesn't mean useful
@Marnee..btw. My son is Autistic..so I've had a lot of experience with ASD and Asperger's Syndrome. I have to say that a lot of the problems you are describing fit Asperger's. People with the condition are highly intelligent, but unable to socialize because they are disconnected from being able to read peoples emotions. Have you ever considered getting tested? They may be able to help you find a path to work through some of the issues. If anything else..to give what's going on a name. You may not be in control of what is going on with you. Again..don't beat yourself up over it. You are a good person regardless of the friends you have... Hang in there!
I believe real intelligence is having the ability to learn from the mistakes of others as well as your own mistakes. The fact that you recognize there was a problem was half the battle. I had a young girl in an Anthropology class I T.A.'d for come storming up to me after class. I handed back an assignment that day that many in the class did poorly on because they did not read the instructions fully before diving into the assignment. "You gave me a B+," she said angrily as she shoved the assignment into my hand. "I've never gotten anything but A's in the entire time I was in high school!" I glanced at her paper..handed it back to her and said "Welcome to College." Not everything goes according to plan, not everything is a setback. I'm so-so technology wise, but I communicate well. That being said..I hate being around people. I prefer the company of immediate family. You are an intelligent person because you realized something was off. Don't beat yourself up over it.
Honestly? If this is “intelligence” it’s probably more that they couldn’t get laid in order to have kids in the first place
This post is also known for " how to be an Assh*le 101".
Isn't your lack of achievements looks even worse if you have "high IQ"?
Scandinavian friend reacting to me asking why she would go straight for the English Proficiency Exam without taking the Lower exam first: "I speak much perfect English."
"I speak English very goodly. Make you happy like hell!"
I rather like inspirational/artistic posts on BoredPanda, not like this one about braggarts that I don't care about. :(
thank you i agree!
If you don't care, don't click/comment on it!
Her point is that she's tired of stuff like this and wants to voice that the art and photography stuff is way better
So many thick headed people in this world now. I wish we could change it, but sometimes you can't. That's the sad reality. Sometimes people can be real assholes.
The key to being truly smart is to never use your intellect to make those around you feel stupid.
Bruh, really?
The funny thing is, the people who like to brag about how smart they are like this are really the least smart ones
I is smarter then all of yous....
These people made Sheldon on Big Bang look kind and thoughtful
Not very impressive. I expected more.
These are probably the same people who think that you need a high IQ to understand the Big Bang Theory show's jokes
I'd expect intelligent people to be busy saving the world rather than bragging about their high IQ scores on social media...
I personally love it when I’m talking with someone and they mention something they assume I know nothing about, then they pause to say, “I’m sure you don’t know what that is,” and I can come back at them with an explanation better than they one they’re trying to give me. Usually knocks their smug asses down a few steps lol
This made me laugh so hard that I woke up everyone in my house. At midnight.
Intelligent people never boast about their intelligence or how high their IQ is.
I do know some very intelligent people, however they have no common sense and are very bad at interacting with people in general.
Why do I love being angry
I think those are mostly young (under 30) people. When they grow up, they learn that they are not as smart as they think and that there's more to life than "me me me"...
Don't you just hate pseudo intellectuals?
If we're being honest, a lot of us laughing at these people probably said some things along these lines when we were far younger. I once told a teacher: 'I'm sick of school work because I've been in school for so long now.' I was 18 at the time, finishing senior year in high school, hadn't stepped foot on a college campus yet.
Some of these poeple are too funny! :D
All these people talking about how they can't enjoy a conversation with normal folks because they're SO intelligent... -.- I think what bothers me most about these is that a) we live in a time where there's so much to know, and so much newly discovered, that you can learn something interesting even from someone working in the same field as you *regardless of their intelligence* (and lets not START to get into what you can learn about an entirely different field...), and b) most people still mostly talk about their latest cool/fun/weird experience aka "subject where IQ hardly matters at all". Ye gods...
Isn't there some mental/brain disease that makes someone think they are more intelligent? Being overly sensitive does not mean someone is smarter. And someone who wants to learn is always better company than a Know It All. And, as a very smart guy once said to me: Do not mistake lack of specific knowledge means someone is stupid. Being people smart is far more rewarding that book smart.
Bipolar disorder comes to mind - one of the symptoms is grandiosity.
I regularly observe that average intelligence is not that smart... It sounds super pretentious I know... I don't actually mean it as a judgement or a put down... If you say that average height is not that tall most people don't take offense... *shrug*
Aka A list of incels
This was so cringy
Here a song that will explain how these people act, Dare to be Stupid (weird al Yankovic
Sounds like a lot of my clients who are college professors at a liberal Liberal Arts college in New England.
HOW DOES THAT TRUMP DICK TASTE?
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You've heard of the book The Bell Curve (Dims are forbidden from reading it, sorry). It has a high probability of changing your perception of herei society in the USSA. Many libs have devoted their lives to debunking this book. It really stirs the commie pot.
STUPID FUCKING REDNECK
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Man it pisses me off when I'm on 60 of 87 and I can't load the last ones because the list getsown to 30. Seriously done with this crap from you BP.
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I used to get mad when people started to brag out of the blue about something they (thought they) have... And then, someone explained to me how that came from insecurities, and that they were not really trying to convince me or anyone else, but convince themselves, and I started to let it go and even not caring... And the fake bragging stopped too... sometimes!!
The thing is, there is a difference between being smart, and knowing things. Just because you have a high I.Q, does not mean you know everything. Also, because you know things, that does not necessarily mean you're smart. I'd like to think I'm somewhere in the middle, but in reality I'm probably a dumbass.
I like to think of it as academic smarts and street smarts. Those that are really high in one are generally challenged in the other. Both are needed and there is nothing wrong with being one or the other. Most people are middle line for both I think, plenty smart to earn a decent living and with common sense enough to get things done.
Yep. I have known lots of really smart people who didn't go to college. I've also know some really stupid people who had multiple degrees. Everyone is good at something, some people are good at many things, and other people's only talent is insulting everyone around them.
Exactly!
At least you're smart enough to realize your own limitations and possible shortcomings. Many aren't. :P
So intellectual capacity and being a knob aren't mutually exclusive.
If you need to brag, then you have nothing to brag about. --- My grandfather.
Meanwhile Socrates says: "One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom." See? The difference between truly smart people and the pseudo-geniuses.
An ounce of pretention is worth a pound of manure.
Lot of incels here, right?
And a lot of potential future shooters.
So many douchebags...
I know, right?!
NOTSOSWIFT IS NOTSOSMART
This whole post is just one big facepalm.
🙄
Every time I see these posts about how intelligent people brag about how smart they are, I'm reminded of the movie "Idiocracy." The intelligent people were so busy being smart and waiting until the "right moment" to have kids, that they never had kids while the low intelligence population had kids galore. Guess who was occupying the world in the future... Intelligence doesn't mean anything if you are incapable of forming social connections. It's like spending your whole life walking over everyone to be the richest person on Earth, then spending the rest of the time wondering if the people that are around you love you for the person you are or the money you have.
I tell ya..I was called FirstName "Brain" Lastname as a nickname in school. I was a National Merit Finalist without practicing (or even knowing what these tests were for). In fact, the fact that I didn't know what the tests were for is the first clue that I was not AT ALL intelligent. I was smart, very smart, but not intelligent. I got almost straight As in college, was considered a "rock star" first 1 1/2 years out of college, and then dive bomb. Because I'm not INTELLIGENT. I can't communicate with people. I'm a software developer, and it is still VERY imporrtant to be able to communicate. I can't read my son to save my life and he's 30. I still don't know him, can't read him, can't guess what he likes. I have had no friends since 1999. I have a career, but I've contributed nothing of note and my son is a great kid, but has never really been happy because I wasn't a good Mom. Smart doesn't mean intelligent, and smart doesn't mean accomplished. And even intelligent doesn't mean useful
@Marnee..btw. My son is Autistic..so I've had a lot of experience with ASD and Asperger's Syndrome. I have to say that a lot of the problems you are describing fit Asperger's. People with the condition are highly intelligent, but unable to socialize because they are disconnected from being able to read peoples emotions. Have you ever considered getting tested? They may be able to help you find a path to work through some of the issues. If anything else..to give what's going on a name. You may not be in control of what is going on with you. Again..don't beat yourself up over it. You are a good person regardless of the friends you have... Hang in there!
I believe real intelligence is having the ability to learn from the mistakes of others as well as your own mistakes. The fact that you recognize there was a problem was half the battle. I had a young girl in an Anthropology class I T.A.'d for come storming up to me after class. I handed back an assignment that day that many in the class did poorly on because they did not read the instructions fully before diving into the assignment. "You gave me a B+," she said angrily as she shoved the assignment into my hand. "I've never gotten anything but A's in the entire time I was in high school!" I glanced at her paper..handed it back to her and said "Welcome to College." Not everything goes according to plan, not everything is a setback. I'm so-so technology wise, but I communicate well. That being said..I hate being around people. I prefer the company of immediate family. You are an intelligent person because you realized something was off. Don't beat yourself up over it.
Honestly? If this is “intelligence” it’s probably more that they couldn’t get laid in order to have kids in the first place
This post is also known for " how to be an Assh*le 101".
Isn't your lack of achievements looks even worse if you have "high IQ"?
Scandinavian friend reacting to me asking why she would go straight for the English Proficiency Exam without taking the Lower exam first: "I speak much perfect English."
"I speak English very goodly. Make you happy like hell!"
I rather like inspirational/artistic posts on BoredPanda, not like this one about braggarts that I don't care about. :(
thank you i agree!
If you don't care, don't click/comment on it!
Her point is that she's tired of stuff like this and wants to voice that the art and photography stuff is way better
So many thick headed people in this world now. I wish we could change it, but sometimes you can't. That's the sad reality. Sometimes people can be real assholes.
The key to being truly smart is to never use your intellect to make those around you feel stupid.
Bruh, really?
The funny thing is, the people who like to brag about how smart they are like this are really the least smart ones
I is smarter then all of yous....
These people made Sheldon on Big Bang look kind and thoughtful
Not very impressive. I expected more.
These are probably the same people who think that you need a high IQ to understand the Big Bang Theory show's jokes
I'd expect intelligent people to be busy saving the world rather than bragging about their high IQ scores on social media...
I personally love it when I’m talking with someone and they mention something they assume I know nothing about, then they pause to say, “I’m sure you don’t know what that is,” and I can come back at them with an explanation better than they one they’re trying to give me. Usually knocks their smug asses down a few steps lol
This made me laugh so hard that I woke up everyone in my house. At midnight.
Intelligent people never boast about their intelligence or how high their IQ is.
I do know some very intelligent people, however they have no common sense and are very bad at interacting with people in general.
Why do I love being angry
I think those are mostly young (under 30) people. When they grow up, they learn that they are not as smart as they think and that there's more to life than "me me me"...
Don't you just hate pseudo intellectuals?
If we're being honest, a lot of us laughing at these people probably said some things along these lines when we were far younger. I once told a teacher: 'I'm sick of school work because I've been in school for so long now.' I was 18 at the time, finishing senior year in high school, hadn't stepped foot on a college campus yet.
Some of these poeple are too funny! :D
All these people talking about how they can't enjoy a conversation with normal folks because they're SO intelligent... -.- I think what bothers me most about these is that a) we live in a time where there's so much to know, and so much newly discovered, that you can learn something interesting even from someone working in the same field as you *regardless of their intelligence* (and lets not START to get into what you can learn about an entirely different field...), and b) most people still mostly talk about their latest cool/fun/weird experience aka "subject where IQ hardly matters at all". Ye gods...
Isn't there some mental/brain disease that makes someone think they are more intelligent? Being overly sensitive does not mean someone is smarter. And someone who wants to learn is always better company than a Know It All. And, as a very smart guy once said to me: Do not mistake lack of specific knowledge means someone is stupid. Being people smart is far more rewarding that book smart.
Bipolar disorder comes to mind - one of the symptoms is grandiosity.
I regularly observe that average intelligence is not that smart... It sounds super pretentious I know... I don't actually mean it as a judgement or a put down... If you say that average height is not that tall most people don't take offense... *shrug*
Aka A list of incels
This was so cringy
Here a song that will explain how these people act, Dare to be Stupid (weird al Yankovic
Sounds like a lot of my clients who are college professors at a liberal Liberal Arts college in New England.
HOW DOES THAT TRUMP DICK TASTE?
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You've heard of the book The Bell Curve (Dims are forbidden from reading it, sorry). It has a high probability of changing your perception of herei society in the USSA. Many libs have devoted their lives to debunking this book. It really stirs the commie pot.
STUPID FUCKING REDNECK
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Man it pisses me off when I'm on 60 of 87 and I can't load the last ones because the list getsown to 30. Seriously done with this crap from you BP.
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