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mistercrabby

mistercrabby

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jagec said:
Intelligence has very, very little to do with salary.
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You are correct. Making more money doesn't make you more smarter.

Being smarter is significantly positively correlated with higher salary, all things being equal.

If you're point is that it isn't the only factor, I agree, but it is a major one.

My point is, if you think you're smarter than the average bear, evidence please.
 
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jagec

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mistercrabby said:
Being smarter is significantly positively correlated with higher salary, all things being equal.
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Well, the correlation isn't THAT strong, but even with a reasonably strong correlation I'd exclude it from your list of metrics. Plenty of dumbasses manage to land six-figure jobs, but not too many dim bulbs manage to get perfect scores on the GRE, for example. If we're measuring raw intelligence, absent all other factors, the tests are the only real tool that we have.

I agree that asking people to self-rate will lead to a hilariously distorted distribution.
 
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nephilim2k

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ok - I rated myself a 10..here is why

I finished school with either A* or A at GCSE
I finished college with every module being a distinction
I blitzed the Mensa test and have an officially recorded IQ of 171
I passed Cisco CCNA, CCNP, CCDA all with 98% (or better)
I passed MCSA, MCSE (and subsequent MCITP recertifications) with 97% (or better)
I graduated Imperial university with a 1st Degree with honours for Computer Science and Networking
I graduated Oxford university with a Masters degree in Computer Science
I was offered Doctoral sponsorship by Cambridge and Oxford University
My current job is paying a salary of £56k a year (UK median Salary is £23k so I make more than double).

All of this by the ripe age of 27
 
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nephilim2k

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John Connor said:
http://iknow.fm/iqtest/
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Every answer correct, but that only judges spacial acuity, and is less than 1/10th of what intelligence is about. Whilst I am very knowledgeable and intelligent in my field (along with a range of others), I know nothing of Medicine, and therefore am unintelligent in that regard.

For an IQ test, you need a broad range of tests, ranging from mathematical, analytical, scientific, as well as spacial awareness, acuity, and dexterity.
 
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tcsenter

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Newbian said:
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THESE go to eleven. lol

I'm just smart enough to be demonstrably smarter than most, but it means shit because its not saying much to be 'smarter' than most. Most are dumb fucks. Inbred lemmings. So I'm smart enough to have reasonably concluded in my very limited exposure to the world (in my youth), that I must be REALLY smart compared to the masses, but then when I am in the company of REALLY smart fuckers who get accepted to top universities, I'm like the inbred toothless laughing stock in the room who thinks Beavis and Butthead are hilarious.
 
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tcsenter

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BoomerD said:
wut ar scale? Ain't them on fishes?
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Damn, that reminds me. Yesterday was a free fishing day here in CA - no license required on any CA waterways (all other limits and seasonal restrictions still apply). I missed it!
 
John Connor

John Connor

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There are multiple different levels of intelligence. For example, I suck at language arts, grammar and spelling and all that BS, but I can read a SID and a STAR. (Standard Instrument Departure, Standard Terminal Arrival), program a FMC (Flight Management Computer), navigate and fly a Boeing 737NG. Who else can do that? I also know a lot about radio communications specifically APCO 25 the Project 25 standard and can decode pager transmissions, ACARS WEFAX and ADS-B.

I'm just well rounded, but when it comes to subjects that I enjoy and want to learn I'm gung ho.
 
mistercrabby

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nephilim2k said:
ok - I rated myself a 10..here is why
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See, that's what I'm talkin' about.

Obviously a lot more than smarts goes into one's ultimate success in life, in it's many aspects. It doesn't mean your a good person or not, or in my opinion matter in one's value as a human being.
 
DaTT

DaTT

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nephilim2k said:
ok - I rated myself a 10..here is why

I finished school with either A* or A at GCSE
I finished college with every module being a distinction
I blitzed the Mensa test and have an officially recorded IQ of 171
I passed Cisco CCNA, CCNP, CCDA all with 98% (or better)
I passed MCSA, MCSE (and subsequent MCITP recertifications) with 97% (or better)
I graduated Imperial university with a 1st Degree with honours for Computer Science and Networking
I graduated Oxford university with a Masters degree in Computer Science
I was offered Doctoral sponsorship by Cambridge and Oxford University
My current job is paying a salary of £56k a year (UK median Salary is £23k so I make more than double).

All of this by the ripe age of 27
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Excellent....and I congratulate you on your accomplishments. I really do. But, do you know what vagina even smells like?


































Just playin.
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

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I went for a 7. It's not that I think that I'm smart, but I can't help but remember all of those people who are stupider than me. They improve my overall average :)
 
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