Limlim said:Who was it that said 80% of people identify themselves as above average intelligence? Something doesn't add up there.
Dr. Daniel Gilbert said:“…if you are like most people, then like most people, you don’t know you’re like most people. Science has given us a lot of facts about the average person, and one of the most reliable of these facts is that the average person doesn’t see herself as average. Most students see themselves as more intelligent than the average student, most business managers see themselves as more competent than the average business manager, and most football players see themselves as having better ‘football sense’ than their teammates. Ninety percent of motorists consider themselves to be safer-than-average drivers, and 94 percent of college professors consider themselves to be better-than-average teachers..."
Badjedidude said:I'm dumb as a box of rocks and right proud of it.
nerdygirl said:My best friend used to have a boyfriend who would deliberately use long words that the average person wouldn't know when he was having an argument. I always wanted to smack his lips off of his head and shout, "Hey buddy. You don't get to be snarky just because you own a Word a Day calendar!"
Limlim said:Who was it that said 80% of people identify themselves as above average intelligence? Something doesn't add up there.
SophiaGrace said:Minus is right, arrogant & pompous people annoy me.
That being said, i thought jean-vic's arguments were quite interesting.
Trojan said:I think using long and complicated words in a conversation with a "normal" person can be quite patronising, even if it's not deliberate, especially if you're "intelligent" enough to be aware that there's a fair chance they won't understand you.
Sci-Fi said:I like to use bigger, or what may seem like more intelligent words because it makes me feel smarter. When people use them all the time like a sailor swears that, to me, is when they come off pompous and arrogant. Not everyone talks like Fraser, if you listen to peoples conversations we're a pretty dumb down society. It's getting worse with texting, I see so many people who can't even string a coherent sentence together, or even make an effort to spell correctly.
Sci-Fi said:I like to use bigger, or what may seem like more intelligent words because it makes me feel smarter.
SophiaGrace said:I am writing this thread more as something for the reader to ponder and respond to, than as an actual complaint, because it really isn't that big of a deal.
Sometimes intelligent people irritate me.
I have noticed that when people consider themselves intelligent that sometimes they will insult you for your "lack of intelligence".
For example, I was talking about a specific subject with a person online and they said to me "Don't even pretend that you know more than I do, because I KNOW i know more than you do on this subject."
and I was like "whoa, insulting a little?"
Then I blocked them. Problem solved.
I mean, I do love intelligent people, just as long as they don't say stuff to me like "don't strain yourself trying to understand what I just said to you." or "do you EVER think you will understand this?"
Truly intelligent people don't have to prove their intelligence, it just exists. At least this is what I think.
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