<p>exactly. i’m not sure how reliable IQ tests are (Feynman got ~125 and scoffed at such testing procedures) and thus do not have any objective scale of intelligence to use for this thread. </p>
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<p>Not smarter, but I just think a lot people and life.
Everyone else thinks that about me anyway…
Ever since I was little, I always thought there was something spectacular in me, don’t know why I thought that, I was just a spoilt girl. But when I look back I think everyone should think that about themselves IMO :)</p>
<p>I don’t think I’m as smart as my classmates think I am. I may be at the top of my class without studying much, but that intelligence isn’t prevalent in every aspect of my life. I’m actually a really big airhead…I drove to school without shoes once, for example… but I got a 99 on the AP Euro test I forgot about the same day. I guess it depends on how you look at it lol</p>
<p>I gotta go with euro on this one. I see people who ask the stupidest question make quite good grades but, in fact, these people are idiots. </p>
<p>Exhibit A, There’s a girl named erica in my class, who once asked if “people lived on the moon” or if “Canada was a developed country”. She also can’t express any of her thoughts into words and mutters all the time. (I’m serious) She asks questions such as these everyday and, you would think this is a basis to call her an idiot but, yet she makes straight A’s and has a 4.0 GPA. Just goes to show, that no matter how stupid you are, a good work ethic can get you good grades.</p>
<p>In my book, she’ll always be an idiot thought.</p>
<p>I actually took an IQ test, and scored 38 :p</p>
<p>IQ scales with age in such a fashion that it is very easy to obtain a very high score by being slightly above the average for your age - when I was 8 my dad sat me down with an IQ test and told me I scored 149, a completely meaningless quantity. IQ is not really representative or indicative of anything until you hit your twenties, which is quite ironic, because IQ tests are supposedly useful in identifying young children with learning difficulties.</p>
<p>eurosport360, this is the precise reason why your IQ will have dropped, not because “school isn’t stimulating enough”, it is simply that IQ at young ages is misleading to begin with. Also, my partner would take a lot of offence at your comment regarding arts (I share your opinion largely, but I’m not allowed to say so :p), and in some respects it is rather belittling of those who do choose to study in that area.</p>
<p>I’m amused by the fact that nobody has picked up on my notion that everyone who has responded here suffers from a delusion of grandeur …</p>
<p>Nope. But I think I’m happier than most. :P</p>
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<p>Haha, the perfect thread to create on College Confidential! I entered expecting hilarious responses, and hilarious responses I saw! </p>
<p>On a more relevant note, intelligence, along with knowledge, is immeasurable, to the extent that there is a precise value for it. Rather, it is a relative concept which can only be applied against one’s immediate peers. So, to answer your question in that context, yes, I feel that I’m ‘smarter’ than everyone else (that ‘everyone’ being comprised of the specific set of all the students attending my high school). Why?</p>
<p>Since intelligence is relative, one can not compare oneself to students in classes of different levels or subjects. Therefore, one can only compare oneself to those in the immediate vicinity, which is to say, everyone has a different ‘intelligence level’ in every class. The grade a student receives in any class, when measured against other participants of the class in a percentile scheme, although still influenced by biases, is the most accurate indicator of one’s intelligence. I am in the highest percentiles, so to speak, in most of my classes, therefore, I am ‘smarter’ than everyone else in each class.</p>
<p>And so proven is the saying that ‘no one is perfect’. Although one student may excel and surpass all others in one class, or a few classes, that student is always inferior to a peer in another class. In context of your original question, yes, many people think that they are smarter than everyone else, for the moment at least, but in reality, it is impossible.</p>
<p>Not at all, and it doesn’t really bother me. Sure there are a FEW very brilliant people out there, but for the rest of us, it all comes down to home much effort you put forth into what you do.</p>
<p>At my school, I’m pretty close.</p>
<p>On CC, I’m mentally ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>I would say that I’m intelligent enough to understand my interesting, more intelligent peers! However, I would not consider myself a genius by any stretch. Plus, I have a horrible habit of doing terrible on tests, so I certainly don’t score as well as everyone on CC.</p>
<p>Smart enough not to compare myself to everyone on CC.</p>
<p>In real life, I was much smarter when I was 9.</p>
<p>Interesting thread. And like everyone else here, no. </p>
<p>“Smart” and “intelligent” are arbitrary words. We all excel in different areas of life, and there will always be people who are better than ourselves. Yet, at least on a personal level, I always feel compelled to compare myself to other students. It’s an intrinsic quality that makes life suck. I don’t believe that tests are an accurate indicator of ones level of intelligence, although can be relative to a degree. I’m terribly lazy, often skim the assigned text, have difficulty focusing in school, and couple that all together= poor performance on a test. 
Yet, people still think I am smart. Regardless, I’d rather live life based off experience, learn things visually, and fulfill my personal intellectual interests rather than mere rote learning. In the end, it won’t really, we all die anyways…</p>
<p>Yes. That is all.</p>
<p>thsfan345 pulled the words right out of my mouth.</p>
<p>Does street smart count???</p>
<p>Taking “everyone” to mean the great majority of people,</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>And I am.</p>
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Yeah, I’m probably street smarter than a lot of people at my school.</p>
<p>“Does street smart count???”</p>
<p>lol, yea I’m not street smart at all. My IQ is really high but I lack a lot of street smarts which really gets to me in certain situations. Plus, I do horribly under pressure, especially like in the SAT room where somehow every time I’ve taken it, there are two people on both sides of me either shaking their legs or chewing gum, which really gets to me. I start to build up saliva when I hear chewing sounds which is so annoying.</p>
<p>So, A high IQ does not mean everything…I would rather have a high street smarts IQ than a high IQ to function in the real world… </p>
<p>yea, sometimes I feel really smart and other times…I feel like the dumbest, most neurotic person who can’t block out RLS people. :P</p>