<p>Yeah, I am. Is there a problem looking for information you didn’t know?</p>
<p>Okay, MIThopeful16 - people do not resent people for being smart, even at your school. People resent people for being unjustifiably arrogant, or even justifiably. Okay, so you’re smart. That doesn’t mean you have a right to talk about how many AP classes you’re going to take, or what your IQ is, or how you get better grades than everyone without working, or how people just hate you for being so smart. I’m probably smarter than you (most arrogant thing I’ve said, ever) and I still don’t like you. So your smartness is clearly not the issue. Most of the time, people respect you for being smart. On occasion, people have made jokes about my intelligence, but it’s never gone beyond that. If you were really just smart and that was your only character “flaw,” then people would respect you and not hate you.</p>
<p>As for bobtheboy - I believe that he believes his IQ is that high. IQ tests at that range are extremely unreliable, and pattern recognition is a poor measure of intelligence anyway. He himself has said that he doubts the validity of his IQ score.</p>
<p>I do have a problem with arrogance. Hefty problem at that. My thing is, when the people around you are just as arrogant and are not as smart as you, then you proceed to be normal and answer questions regularly. There is flaunting here and there, but my entire school does it, and then it ends up to where this school hates me. I mentioned the IQ thing here, and only here, and not counting that as a valid thing anymore. And here, everyone takes IB, so it’s not special. It’s just when I work, they antagonize me for being smart, when now I hardly say anything to them.</p>
<p>Okay, but the problem with you is not that you’re smart, which you obviously are. In society, being smart is a good thing. People don’t like you because you are ARROGANT. If you want people to like you, change that.</p>
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<p>See, you’re more arrogant, and I’m smarter. How do you think I feel? 
Secondly, don’t assume that people are less intelligent that you. I know I just assumed that I’m smarter than you, and if I’m wrong, I do apologize.</p>
<p>Oh I wasn’t referring to you in that respect. In all honesty, probably are smarter than me. I am certainly more arrogant though, I guess that’s the result of growing up without a true challenge or any form of humbling.</p>
<p>Okay, well, I don’t hate you anymore. I see why you are the way you are. I’m just asking you to make a conscious effort not to brag in your posts. You don’t have to tell us about how many APs you’re taking or how easy high school is for you for us to know that you’re smart. Like I’ve mentioned, if you’re actually smart, it’ll be evident.</p>
<p>Yes, I probably am smarter than you. I’m glad you can see that. You’re already becoming less arrogant. How about this - everytime you’re tempted to say something arrogant, think about how people have higher IQs, have won more awards, have better scores, and are taking more AP classes? Then you will learn humility. Hopefully the thought of how you pale in comparison to some people will prevent you from bragging. If it doesn’t, I will go on to tell you about all the INCREDIBLE people I know. For example, I know Will Yuan.</p>
<p>Ah, I have no clue who that is.</p>
<p>Golly look at you, saving the world by caring for the little people. </p>
<p>Don’t be such a fop, mk? So what, you have an IQ of 150? I do too, and I don’t go around acting like I’m hot crap. Guess what, there are people out there with 190 and 200 IQ’s. Should they feel “guilty” about being “so much smarter”? No, that’s just insane. </p>
<p>Being able to determine how many glinks are glogs if all glogs are frinks is useless. An IQ is ONE way of measuring ONE type of potential. Get over yourself.</p>
<p>I laugh at how you fail to read the rest of the thread. As I’ve stated multiple times, I made a mistake in including the IQ thing. It’s pretty worthless now that I think about it. And you clearly failed to see the main aspect of the thread, so please, speak more intelligently.</p>
<p>“Speaking more intelligently” would first require an intelligent topic, which this certainly isn’t. </p>
<p>No, I’m not reading 4 pages of worthless posts. You wanted feedback, so I gave it. No, stupidity doesn’t become a “mistake” once you realize it was wrong, it’s still stupidity.</p>
<p>Yes, but when the feedback is based on a topic dynamic that has changed, then your input has become obsolete to me.</p>
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<p>I literally loled at this. I think I’m going to save this for posterity.</p>
<p>Anonymous93, I’m confused.
I was referring to the op “caring for the little people,” not you. No go ahead, he needs a good lesson in humility.</p>
<p>@snoopydog1 - Hahaha, I’m really sorry!!! Wow, that was embarrassing :)</p>
<p>Argh… </p>
<p>Not once did I say I saving the world. And about the IQ, it’s irrelevant now, it’s pretty much a meaningless piece of data that doesn’t tell me anything. Maybe if you understood my position more then you could see.</p>
<p>Alright. I’m going to tell you one thing. Don’t ever act like you know me. If you really want to know, I did feel guilty for being smart. Sincere guilt came for me. I took back the comment after I realized I was in the wrong, by some intelligent posts by people rather than taking shots at me. I didn’t post this with the intention of bragging. Never came with that thought. So there goes your perfect understanding. If you call that pussying out, then that’s your belief.</p>
<p>MIT, I could be arrogant as hell too. But that’s before discovering CC. :D</p>
<p>I still am arrogant as hell after discovering CC lol. But I vow to work on it.</p>
<p>@QwertyKey: Like MIThopeful16, I’m sorry I ever mentioned my IQ. But, as you continually fail to understand, it does not make me one of the 23 smartest people on Earth. It makes me one of the 23 people that are best at taking IQ tests. Also, you’re probably wrong about there only being 23 people with an IQ that high. And when I told my test proctor about the Raven’s Adv. Matrices that I had “practiced” with a few days before, he as much as said that my IQ score was most likely inflated and probably wasn’t totally accurate. I had taken another test previously, when I was very young (about 5 and a half), and scored a more average 161 - probably more accurate (I doubt THIS was inflated by any significant amount). My parents for some reason decided to retest me at the age of 12. Also, IQ scores are not perfectly normally distributed. For example, there would be a predicted 0 people with an IQ of 250-300, yet William James Sidis had an IQ that high.</p>
<p>The reason I scored so high was pretty much because the math on the test is extremely basic, I have very good general knowledge and those questions are not too tough, my short-term (about 15 minute) memory is nearly perfect, and because of my “practice” with Matrices. I don’t even know why I practiced; I was a dumb little kid and wanted to maximize my score. Personally, I don’t care if you believe me or not, I’m simply pointing out that you might not want to be as quick to reject others’ claims. I’m sure you could increase your IQ score by about 25 points from your real IQ too, if you wanted to, and were foolish enough to care as I was. I may be intelligent, but I am definitely not in the caliber of Hawking, etc. I don’t know how they record IQ scores, but I have probably not been recorded as a top 100 scorer (if they do that sort of thing) because my proctor said my grade was probably inflated. This was an official IQ test, however.</p>
<p>My real IQ is probably about 160 and I don’t even know why I mentioned the, albeit more recent, score of 187…</p>
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<p>Those are not reliable figures, as I’m sure tokenadult would have pointed out.</p>