Gen X has highest avg. IQ. That’s a fact.

[GasTeddy]

I'm not as dumb as I look...(most of the time)

Better or worse than the looks..?   

[hazmatt]

Better or worse than the looks..?

My mom told me I was handsome...

[GasTeddy]

My mom told me I was handsome...

It was her guide dog who said that.     

[hazmatt]

It was her guide dog who said that.     

That was actually funny!

[sparky127]

Jordan Peterson has developed a pretty rock-solid method of determining IQ through a person's station, chosen occupation, and the ease with which one navigates life.  Apparently my IQ is around 90.

All of you confused with what an "IQ" is... It's an intelligence quotient.

[sparky127]

[hazmatt]

Jordan Peterson has developed a pretty rock-solid method of determining IQ through a person's station, chosen occupation, and the ease with which one navigates life.

I'm really not sure that this is true. I knew a CTO who was one of the smartest programmers I've met. He wrote Linux drivers for a card he wanted to use that didn't have Linux drivers. He had a very difficult time navigating life and was always asking me for advice...

I don't think intelligence has has anything to do with wealth or ease of navigating life. I've met some really poor smart people and some really dumb ones that are rich due to stumbling upon something by luck.

[hazmatt]

I don't think I met anybody in the army infantry that had an IQ over 83....

[JimmyD3]

I don't think I met anybody in the army infantry that had an IQ over 83....

Don't confuse IQ with Common Sense, I would say they are mutually exclusive. You also have to remember those out  of basic training have been altered.

[hazmatt]

Don't confuse IQ with Common Sense, I would say they are mutually exclusive. You also have to remember those out  of basic training have been altered.

True.

We used to joke that if you told a Marine to climb a climb with a steakknife in his teeth and kill the machine gun nest at the top of the cliff and and he would attempt it.

You tell that to a sailor and he'd go lock himself in the brig.

[icepac]

IQ is crushing on fast mrs. Pacman without using a pattern.

[hazmatt]

IQ is crushing on fast mrs. Pacman without using a pattern.

That's not hand eye coordination?

[GasTeddy]

That's not hand eye coordination?

Got it...
                                     

[Brooke]

We all know at least some people who are very good at IQ-like tests, math, science, etc., but who are complete idiots with respect to the real world.  And vice versa -- people who are very wise about real-world matters (making deals, interacting with people, knowing how some decision is likely to pan out in the real world) but who would do poorly on IQ-like tests.

For this reason, I think of "smartness" as being at least 2 numbers.

Like Dungeons and Dragons characters who have two stats for "smartness":  INT (for "intelligence") and WIS (for "wisdom").

The writer Nassim Taleb also coined the term "Intellectual Yet Idiot" (or "IYI") about this situation.

IQ-like tests measure INT.  They do not measure WIS.

Every time a person who has high IQ, or is good at math, science, or articulate speaking, feels that some policy would be great -- but you know the policy would be a disaster because of how the policy's incentives would fully play out in the real world, among real people, you are seeing an Intellectual Yet Idiot in action.

[hazmatt]

Well said.