There is no black and white on this subject. When you think of other people, do you usually think your'e better than them overall? You may find yourself feeling superior to a heroine addict (that's easy, they've made bad decisions that you have not made). Do you feel superior to, say, a doctor? How about a teacher? Have you ever disagreed with your doctor's advice? Have you ever thought that a particular professor didn't know what he was doing?
Do you consider yourself better than most other people?
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gorcorps
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I don't really know what you're talking about. First you ask if I feel I'm better than most people, which I take to mean what I consider to be the 'average person'. And then you ask these questions like "do you think you're better than a doctor?" WTF? So doctors are considered average now? I like to think I'm smarter than average, but it's pretty specific knowledge in math/science/tech stuff. If you consider a doctor average and THEN consider yourself better than that, then you're just an elitist prick as I'm pretty sure watching House doesn't make your opinion more valid than 8 years of medical school and then on job experience.
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I voted yes because I assumed average, and Im quit confident Im in a niche of say 5% people when it comes to certain things (like reliability, honesty, intelligence, etc)
I don't consider myself better. I would consider myself better on certain subjects than certain people but they have more knowledge on other subjects than me.
There have been many psychological surveys conducted in which >50% of the sample group believes themselves to be above average in any number of categories (intelligence, looks, athleticism, etc.). Since 50% of people are by definition below the median, the conclusion was that most people tend to think of themselves as better than they really are.
I'm assuming most people on ATOT went to college. There have been plenty of threads where people have talked about certain professors as though those professors were retarded.
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Nah I actually consider myself a little crappier than most in general. But I'm better than dirt...well most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought stuff.
KT
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I didn't say "the average person"
Are you better than most people? How about better than 66% of the population, does that work for you? That qualifies as "most"
Smarter in terms of formal logic and symbol processing abilities, yes. Standardized tests are good at measuring this narrow definition of intelligence.
Decades of reading have also stuffed my mind with more trivia than that of the typical TV watcher.
Better, wiser, kinder, more creative, stronger people skills? Nope.
Decades of reading have also stuffed my mind with more trivia than that of the typical TV watcher.
Better, wiser, kinder, more creative, stronger people skills? Nope.
One undergradute programming class was described by a classmate as "professor -?- making mistakes and Dave correcting him." Thankfully I didn't get an F for tactlessness, but I was just trying to help. I'm more polite now
MotionMan
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Yes to most of the above, however, really, that actually makes me worse, not better, than them.
I know, based on statistics, I am more intelligent than most, but I am not so sure than I am less ignorant than most.
I know right from wrong, which, I believe many people do not, but I do not necessarily do what is right as often as I should.
I make more money than a lot of people, but not nearly as much as many.
Like most people, I believe that I am an above-average driver, but, by definition, approximately half of people who believe that are wrong.
MotionMan
i used to be better than average-looking. they called me kid gorgeous. later on, i became kid presentable. now i'm kid gruesome.
Nope ... I'm pretty standard fare. There are areas where I excel, but I wouldn't say that I'm 'better' than the majority of people out there, just different. That said, I'm pretty damn good
Better in some ways maybe, but I consider people to be like a video game character with an assortment of attribute points allocated into different categories. Some people may be incredible at certain things that society does not place at a high value.
Someone may be an incredible doctor, actor, or engineer, which might make them seem better on the surface at the current time. Consider that at other times in history a good blacksmith might have been a highly respected profession, while now a blacksmith is just considered an average worker drone.
Other skills have value also and it is much more difficult to determine how much value. Some very intelligent people may never get recognized due to their lack of social skills. It's a very rare person to be highly skilled in multiple areas as though someone put in a cheat code in a video game to give their character 100% in all attributes.
Also, better can be determined by physical attributes such as height, weight, hair color, skin color, or various body part dimensions. Currently, being tall is seen as something desirable in a mate to many women, possibly as a protector type trait. Things like that can change in different situations.
Or is better determined by the amount of money and possessions you have? It seems like it is to some people. That heroine addict may determine if someone is better based on how many hits they have. While another person would only consider themselves better if they have a penthouse suite in Manhattan looking down on everyone else. Compared to the rest of the population of the world America, Japan, and Europe may seem like they're better than everyone else to the eyes of a peasant farmer in Africa or China because they have some much relative to him.
Better is relative, and depends greatly on how you're measuring and who you're measuring against. I think that people are roughly equal overall with a few exceptions.
Someone may be an incredible doctor, actor, or engineer, which might make them seem better on the surface at the current time. Consider that at other times in history a good blacksmith might have been a highly respected profession, while now a blacksmith is just considered an average worker drone.
Other skills have value also and it is much more difficult to determine how much value. Some very intelligent people may never get recognized due to their lack of social skills. It's a very rare person to be highly skilled in multiple areas as though someone put in a cheat code in a video game to give their character 100% in all attributes.
Also, better can be determined by physical attributes such as height, weight, hair color, skin color, or various body part dimensions. Currently, being tall is seen as something desirable in a mate to many women, possibly as a protector type trait. Things like that can change in different situations.
Or is better determined by the amount of money and possessions you have? It seems like it is to some people. That heroine addict may determine if someone is better based on how many hits they have. While another person would only consider themselves better if they have a penthouse suite in Manhattan looking down on everyone else. Compared to the rest of the population of the world America, Japan, and Europe may seem like they're better than everyone else to the eyes of a peasant farmer in Africa or China because they have some much relative to him.
Better is relative, and depends greatly on how you're measuring and who you're measuring against. I think that people are roughly equal overall with a few exceptions.
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