yitwail wrote:cicerone imposter wrote:michaelminett, First of all, welcome to a2k. Second of all, you're too smart for a2k. LOL
here's something i read in the megagenius site. btw, the link given in another post is incorrect; it's megagenius.com, not megagenious.com. guess the MG knows how to spell.
Quote:A fascinating characteristic of intelligence is that the lower a person's IQ, the more he disagrees with others, regardless of their intellect. Conversely, the higher a person's IQ, the more he permits others to believe as they choose, and agrees with those whose intellects approximate his own.
if that's true, then the overall intelligence at A2K can't be all that high. :wink:
I dunno- I think the disagreeing part has more to do with self esteem than with intelligence. Possibly a person with higher intelligence has more self esteem and can therefore tolerate the ideas or correctness of others to a higher degree. A person who perceives themselves to be stupid would try their best to see others be wrong by disagreeing with them.
I think an interesting example of the whole IQ thing is my younger brother. For years, we all thought of him as a the 'not-so-smartest' of the family, and for good reason too: he failed 4th grade, he can't do math to save his life, he's never once done well in school, hates books (maybe that's just because he's a teenager) and (although is a nice kid), would never appear to be a very intelligent person by the looks of things. After taking his first IQ test it was discovered that the lad is a frikin genius of an IQ of some 170. Mine is some lower than him, and people would definitely judge me smarter. (not meaning to brag)
Also, I was thinking: if intelligence is currently the human's most important ability for adaptation, isn't bragging about it the same as what a caveman, some 1000 years ago, might have said-- "Me strongest man"? Also, having a very high intelligence isn't really that great of a thing. Taking the strength analogy-- If you are stronger than the environment requires you too be, then either you just won't use your strength that much, or you'll die sooner than the rest because you'll require so much food and energy (which will inturn lower your chances of survival).
For example...the negative impact very high intelligence can have on the survival of your genes: perhaps your ego was so big that you thought you were better than everyone and isolated yourself from everybody, and died without reproducing. Or, a more common occurence: even though you did reproduce, you were so busy challenging your intellect, that you didn't pay much attention to your children, and they turned into one of those kids whose dads were too busy for them, making them feel inferior for the rest of their lives, and basically turning them into mentally unstable people. Mentally unstable people do not fare very well in our society. You see this all the time: on TV, of you're ever watching the biography of one of those geniuses or whatever, their kids are NEVER as good as them, or anywhere near it. Usually you hear about how some scientist dude spent his life trying to solve this weird math problem and ignored his family.
Another possibility is that if you're really smart, you'll get depressed or something (whatever those poets and writers get), and die unhappy without having normal children.
Okeie.
I am 12 years old and entering the 9th grade..... is that good?
