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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You Tried, Breana....
I Am More Faster Than Your Calculator
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!
Poor Mongolians Who Don't Know Of Other Languages
Spot The Difference, Neil
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.
How Was I Even Supposed To Respond To This?
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.
What Did You Do Today? 😏😏
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.
Because Using Widely Known Abbreviations To Save Time Or Make A Comment Shorter Makes You A Semiliterate Neanderthal
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!
This Guy Plays Chess
Smartass Thinks That None Knows What Water Is
Wise Man
How Can Someone Act So Smart And Yet Be So Dumb
Wait Till This Guy Finds Out About Dolphins
Forgot This Goldmine Courtesy Of My Best Friend
Looks Like He Can't Self-Diagnose Narcissism
Insecurity
God Can’t Help Your Iq
I've had my IQ tested, too, and got 142. All that means is that I test well; it has no reflection on success in everyday life. I have friends who have scored much lower, but are a lot smarter than me in real-world situations.
Which is why assigning numerical values to a person's intelligence is worthless. I took the official MENSA test when I was younger, and my results said my IQ was 180. Nobody cares, and it's not going to get me further in life. I took the test because I liked the challenge, and only submitted it because my grandmother offered to pay for it on my behalf, and she told me I'd just as well find out how good, or bad, I had performed. And nobody turns down a gift from their grandmother.
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I knew someone with an IQ of 180. When the test was done my IQ was 175. He said he never wanted to join the IQ club because it's just a bunch of shallow people with a ridiculous opinion of themselves. He also quite rightly pointed out that it's a measure of POTENTIAL, not actuality. I'll also add that it only measures a certain type of intelligence. Being clever hasn't helped me at all, in fact it's a curse. A much better measure of intelligence, as a meaningful measure of worth in society, is how well one gets on in that society. I'm hopeless. But someone can be really stupid, and become president of the United States. Another measure of intelligence is what I think of as emotional intelligence, the ability to empathise and relate and get on with people. That's a much better skill to have. And I'm hopeless at that. IQ scores are only the vaguest indicator of someone's actual ability to work or perform. A good memory is more important than being a little cleverer than everyone else.
My dad was a total douche. If I, or my three brothers, got a near-perfect score on a test, our Dad would say, "You could have done better." He made us all take an IQ test and we all did pretty well, except the youngest brother. He would not tell anyone his score. We all assumed he had done VERY badly. The other siblings reminded him that the score means nothing in real life. Our Dad told him he already figured we were all below average. Years later, after our Dad's funeral, we all went out for a drink (lol). We were sharing stories about our childhood and trying to remember the few good aspects of our father. During a lull in conversation, the youngest brother just casually says, "I made a 176 on the IQ test, but I didn't want Dad to know because he was such a douche." Omg!
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Someone can be highly intelligent and not be able to spell though.
I have never seen a need to publicize one's IQ score. It's basically a meaningless number as proven by the author of this post.
Yeah, you would say that, because you only got like a 30 or so, but anyone else who got high scores like the REST of us smart people would feel the need to brag. ..... i'm just being sarcastic, but that might not be obvious. It is really a b******t number, and not something to be taken seriously. There's so much more to people than just an IQ score from a random test. I guess a lot of these people don't have anything else to post about other than that.
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and if you're so faithful in God and Jesus, you wouldn't go around bragging about your "intellect"
Sounds like OP thinks his parents payed [sic] for the IQ itself... "Yes, I'll have an order of 130 IQ and a side of fries."
"I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers." Stephen Hawking on IQ.
There are so many things wrong with this. I think I'm most bothered by the part about the priest not asking them to send that.
Well I don't know them personally ( I wish I did) I know OF someone with an IQ of 148 and he is such a humble man. Op is a fool and so are all the other people on this list. As least the comments are interesting. ( guys I had to fix my spelling on this oops, hahaha.)
Funny, but an IQ test was not created to measure a persons intelligence, only the momentary level (and it's current use is completely contrary to the creators intended purpose). Also, it is not intended measure book smarts or street smarts, rather your ability to learn. So an infant in theory could score higher if they could take the test, simply because the neural pathways have not yet formed/solidified (i know, improper terms but I am not medical so I don't know how else to say it without research)
you know, people think that IQ tests measure general intelligence. They just measure problem solving skills correlated to logical thinking. But there's more to intelligence than logic, and more to life than intelligence. If someone has a high IQ it don't automatically mean they'll be successful in life. Other skills are required, such as communication, social interaction, business skills.
The result without any indication of the type of test they took is completely meaningless.
It was the one with the capital letters ;)
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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
I Texted All Of My Contacts: "Happy New Year!"
I'm Not The One Being Dumb Right 🤔
It’s Only 10 Am
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?
Dry Wit
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
You Peasants
i love being peasant, nature and work is great for physical and mental health :D
An Intellectual On Stephen Hawking's Death
No Time For Culture Dr. Jones
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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.
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So intellectual capacity and being a k**b aren't mutually exclusive.
If you need to brag, then you have nothing to brag about. --- My grandfather.
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
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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!"
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I rather like inspirational/artistic posts on BoredPanda, not like this one about braggarts that I don't care about. :(
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 a******s.
honestly, everyone here is either just a bragging b*tch or want to rub it in people's faces because they think they are special or something. especially that peasant one. I bet he had to look that up to even know what a peasant is lol.
The funny thing is, the people who like to brag about how smart they are like this are really the least smart ones
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.
Here a song that will explain how these people act, Dare to be Stupid (weird al Yankovic
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.
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.
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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*
Sounds like a lot of my clients who are college professors at a liberal Liberal Arts college in New England.
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.
Load More Replies... So intellectual capacity and being a k**b aren't mutually exclusive.
If you need to brag, then you have nothing to brag about. --- My grandfather.
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
Load More Replies... 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!"
Load More Replies... I rather like inspirational/artistic posts on BoredPanda, not like this one about braggarts that I don't care about. :(
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 a******s.
honestly, everyone here is either just a bragging b*tch or want to rub it in people's faces because they think they are special or something. especially that peasant one. I bet he had to look that up to even know what a peasant is lol.
The funny thing is, the people who like to brag about how smart they are like this are really the least smart ones
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.
Here a song that will explain how these people act, Dare to be Stupid (weird al Yankovic
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.
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.
Load More Replies... 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*
Sounds like a lot of my clients who are college professors at a liberal Liberal Arts college in New England.
