Asklemmy

I’m smart enough to know, that there are loads of smarter people than me, and a lot of them are worth listening to, and by doing that, I’ve become pretty smart myself.

I definitly dont think I am smart. Other people can get new friends, find love-life , can afford proper apartments, knows how to plan social events, are wellrounded enough in knowledge that they can do trivia quizzes, and can do small-talk about real life stuff, or remember each others names, faces, and what they talked about last time they met. I got so little clue about any of that. Feel seriously dumb sometimes.

I can google very well. I'm a self-learned developer without university education. I can do okay on pop film-music trivia quiz. Can read out a good fiction novel in a single night. So I am above average smart in some VERY narrow fields.

But at least I dont think I know stuff I dont. I know my limits. I defer to people who have more experience than me. So I trust doctors and teachers about vaccinations, I trust that scientists are right about the coming climate changes, and I dont trust in people who have been caught lying before, no matter how much money or power they got. Im not THAT dumb. Sometimes it feels like just that alone puts me above average. But that cant be right, right?

Technically I have a high IQ, but that is just a number. Besides that I consider myself decently if not quite smart. I recognize that I can come up with creative solutions to problems, but most importantly people come to me to ask for help for certain problems, which feels great and I think is a measure of how someone is "smart". I lean less from books and more from association and observation. I also generaly reach high in what I do, but that is more thanks to determination and ambition than pure skills. Of course I also lack in many other things, staying around and understanding people is difficult and making friends is incredibily challenging

Technically I have a high IQ, but that is just a number. Besides that I consider myself decently, if not quite, smart. I recognize that I can come up with creative solutions to problems, but most importantly people come to me to ask for help for certain things, which feels great and I think is good a measure of how someone is "smart". I learn less from books and more from association and observation. I also generaly reach high in what I do, but that is more thanks to determination and ambition than pure skills. Of course I also lack in many other things, staying around and understanding people is difficult and making friends is incredibly challenging

I know two things. I really like to be right about stuff and if we’re going by the usual tests a majority of people are going to be near average intelligence.

So I’m most likely average and real smug about it.

I'm alright at written arguments when I can take my time and rewrite and make different multidimensional bullet-point lists and tables, but I can't organize ideas or comprehend let alone create arguments verbally. This has led me to believe I'm far below average in terms of verbal sparring. Maybe 25th percentile at most.

I don't do too wonderful remembering things people are saying either, especially in emotionally charged situations like arguments with loved ones. I have to write things to mention down beforehand and write specific actionable items to consider them resolved. I do well in academic lectures only because I take very good notes (not exhaustive; I paraphrase and use inside jokes to remember). I think I'm far below average there too, so for auditory processing maybe. I do my best to practice this by listening to podcasts and YouTubers without subtitles. I often have to rewind 5 or 10 seconds, but I'm getting better, I think. I'm probably around 40th percentile here.

I think I'm better than average at putting ideas into words, maybe 60th or 70th percentile. Unfortunately, that skill is made obsolete by ChatGPT and similar. (I'm not an "AI" evangelist; I just recognize that it is better than me at the common task of using English grammar patterns to make something that sounds plausible out of a list of bullet points and fragmented ideas.)

I think I'm maybe better than average at using search engines and reading manuals to figure out how things work. I learned everything I know about credit cards, CDs, stocks, 401ks, and Roth IRAs from various sources on the interwebs as well as from reading the fine print on the contracts I signed. Maybe 70th percentile.

As a bonus, I'm pretty good at inventing harmony lines to songs. That comes in helpful for songs I cover/write.

Smack dab average, honestly. Within my carreer and special interests I'm knowledgeable, and I speak three (four if you're generous) languages, i've learnt complex skills by myself as well, but give me anything numerical and I will choke. I'm also horrible at reading the room or social cues. I've also done some real stupid decisions before out of pride/stubbornness, and if that ain't stupid I dunno what is.

I feel like I'm smart, but then I compare myself to other people and see they're more successful in areas I struggle. I feel like my brain short circuits under stress. I'm my own worst enemy in that regard.

A little above average.

An IQ test a psychiatrist gave me when I was a kid said I was just shy of a couple standard deviations outside the norm, one day I saw it in my parents' filing cabinet.

High Intelligence, could most likely become a Mensa member. Incredible emotionally crippled by being bullied, early verbal/speech issues, been in a lots of fights, had motivation issues through university. Doing quite fine now career-wise after changing to IT and saw immediate appreciation for my faculties, but still a emotional mess, though I have a tolerant girlfriend.

I'd say I'm above average but not a genius, IQ professionally tested at 117.

I have decent logic skills, spatial awareness, but I really think I lack social skills, I have a very hard time picking up social cues and that kind of stuff. That's something an IQ test can't measure and it's my weakest spot.

I average out to average, because I know a lot of things and can figure out some things, but I also have huge gaps. Whether I seem smart or stupid depends a lot on the situation and company.

The only think if Knowles is that if i'm smart im a failure, if im average im a falure and if im dumb im almost decent but still a failure, i dunno on this point of my life i see myself nothing as a failure and i just want to kms at this point

These threads are always midwits with good test scores lamenting they ended up mediocre. Coping they ended up just as an unbiased observer would expect.