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!
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Spot The Difference, Neil
This is not about statistics, it's about what's more within our power to prevent.
For this particular comment that he made, it's about empathy, which he seriously lacks.
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There's mentally is people in all countries, but only these high rates of mass shootings in America. I know lets carry on an blame the mentally ill and stoke up racial hatred too, just to make it interesting.
By his logic WW2 was nothing to get upset about because afterall the Plague killed more people
He's referring to moral panic. A media tool to create .... Well... Panic. That's what he means by emotions responding to spectacle. And it's Trump that can order an amnesty gun buy back. Him blaming mentally health for the recent shootings is bs. He's no psychologist. People with mental health are statistically abused and assaulted more than they harm others. It takes a psychopathic mind to plan and act on psychotic urges. He just created more stigma for people like me with mental health issues. F**k him. He's a narcissistic bully.
We are doing F**K all, says in the original text, if you are wondering
Furthermore, I have read (don't know if it is confirmed) the Dayton shooter threw up plenty of warning signs before this incident. The story I read was that a friend of his stopped talking to him after he held a gun to his head. Not only that, but he had gotten violent with several friends AND had been surveying bars to "do damage."
We actually could do a lot more to prevent medical errors. Because it is not a single incident, nobody ever feels the call to action.
The saddest part is that eating more carrots + treating your body like a dumpster = less medication needed which = less unnecessary deaths.
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I don't disagree with Rekalty, but Neil is just conveying scientific data to make people think about the science of our emotional responces to death. Try and examine your own response after reading it, it is interesting. Rekalty sure had an emotional response.
Well there's a time and place to say such things - hours after the country is shaken by multiple mass shootings is definitely not the right time.
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Neil is mistakenly conflating the pooled total of hundreds of commonplace, independent and singular events against two. What is his message here? Is is that the recent double mass shootings were likewise not at all newsworthy because not enough people wee killed within 48 hours? I don’t find abhorrent, senseless and lawless slaughter in any of his counter examples.
John, yes worldwide deaths. I'm assuming the down vote was because someone thought I was making a stance against gun control. I was doing nothing of the sort. I guess me saying "1.2 mil people are killed in preventable wrecks each year is senseless" is a bad thing?
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Why would Neil waste effort trying to diminish mass shootings? Is this really the hill he wants to die on?
I get it but Niel wasn’t advocating any position or making himself look dumb. He was just talking about people being so emotional. Take everyone’s guns and drop them in the Atlantic for all I care. But we can still look at it from a statistical mindset rather than an emotional one.
I'm usually a Neil fan, but when I read that post, my first thought was exactly what Rekalty said.
I hate how this debate gets hijacked every time. Here are the facts about mass shootings 1. They are terrorist attacks. They are absolutely meant to instill fear on a targeted group. It is a unique crime. You cannot logically bring any other violent crime into the argument. Every other committed murder has a narrow and specific objective. Gangs. Domestic violence, rape, burglary, robbery or whatever else you can name has a specific short term goal. Terrorism is unique. 2. Assault weapons, high capacity magazines, body armor, bump stocks, silencers and more are force multipliers. These things allow a person to cause an exponentially more amount if death and destruction. If the Dayton shooter had a 17 round handgun and was engaged by police within 30 seconds, the death and casualty count would be a fraction of what it was. Mass shooters do not buy guns on the black market, they but them legally. 3. A good guy with a gun is the answer to a bad guy with a gun. Texas has some of the -
Loosest open and conceal carry laws in the country. Why wasn't the El Paso shooter confronted? I'll tell you, because he went to an area that was mostly brown people. Many minority races are afraid to carry a gun because of our culture. How many black and brown people are mistakenly killed by police or well meaning gun owners because of skin color. The black guy murdered in the mall as he was being the good guy with the gun? The black sheriff's deputy in full uniform that was run out of his bank at gunpoint because he was armed. And on and on. Concealed and open carry laws are only useful for white people. Most domestic terrorism isn't aimed at white conservative christians. Open and concealed carry are for white people. 4. All the other arguments are just so much b******t. I am pro gun. Keep your hand guns, your hunting rifles and shotguns But get rid of the semi auto hi capacity long guns. 5 rounds in a deer rifle or shotgun. 17 rounds on a handgun. Thats enough.
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That response was savage! But try to run it by pro-gun Congress members...
NDT for king. People worry about terrorism and mass shootings because they don't understand probability.
I agree in a way. Gun violence is an issue but it’s an issue I would be willing to drop if rednecks would drop the whole “terrorism” thing overseas and wasting all our money on military spending. Terrorism is not and never will be a real threat. If they drop the war machine I can see just letting go the shooting issue and hoping for the best.
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There's mental health care, people fighting in all different manners for gun laws. I believe we are very aware of gun shootings. Mr. DeGrass Tyson's point is that we do respond heavily in media to events that are actually responsible for less casualties than, for instance, the flu. Many acts of violence are because people are confronted I their lives with events they find impossible to get a grip on. Working on poverty and health issues might be more efficient than anything else for all these issues (flu is mostly deadly for people that are old, young or sick to begin with). So yeah, he has a point, but maybe this is not the time, because we are not emotionless robots that just calculate the risks.
It's called moral panic. Media tool used for biased reportage. Usually to take attention away from another bigger issue.
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I kind of think Rekalty is missing Neil's point rather than the other way around…the reply is not exactly contradicting the original post…
I get sick to death of hearing there are "common sense" solutions to this. There are no simple, common sense solutions to this epidemic. If there were, we would have solved the problem by now, because like it or not, people on both sides of the political spectrum are tired of seeing people die in mass shootings.
Don't "mass shooting" and "homicide via handgun" kinda fall in the same category?
He already dismantled himself when it came to light he was a sexual predator. Now he's also pro gun?!
He is not pro gun. If he would be pro gun he would not have mentioned homicides via hand gun.
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It's harder to use a knife to kill many people, harder to use acid to kill many people. Often, the guns used are highly engineered killing tools designed to take out the maximum number of people in a short time. So it's not just The people wheeled in the gun, it's the society that creates the people, it's the gun companies that market these types of guns, it's the whole gestalt, the whole paradigm!
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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.
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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)
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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?
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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.
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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.
