Great. Just what we need.
Another pointless attempt to equate intelligence with a narrowly and subjectively defined set criteria.
mhendo has no documentation.
Technically, you only have to be more knowledgeable than the ignorant people. But intelligence is a big help too, especially in GD and the Pit.
Credentials, eh? I gotcha credentials right here:
Passed the GED at age 17 (got one question wrong on the science quiz; had some time left over at the end so chose to retake the science part, and aced it the second time);
Spent 2 years in community college learning to program and network computers, and many headbanging sessions since then learning how to program them effectively.
Being an SDMB member for this long has to count for something. Since we’re fighting our own ignorance also, it would stand to reason that the more we participate, the more knowledgeable we become.
- Redhead
- Great rack
- Puts out
Thems all the credentials I need…
I am not an intelligent person, I just play one on the boards.
I thought it might come across as “hey SDMB!! Who dares challenge ME!!” or something. Mostly I’m just curious if there are people here who are like college professors or NASA engineers or nobel prize for kickboxing neurosurgeons or something. I’ve been to Vault and it’s a lot of people with good schools and whatnot (or so they claim, I take everything with a grain of bullshit) but it’s very limited subject matter (what does Goldman pay?, what does Accenture pay, which B-school is best, should I go to law school, etc). It’s not meant to be a contest or critique of SDMB or anything.
For what it’s worth
MBA - tier 2 school
BS Civil Engineering - top 50 school (crappy grades though…freakin hated engineering)
Career mostly working for various consulting and technology firms.
Pretty high IQ, High but not retardedly high SATs, GMATs.
Rainman like ability to absorb movie and Simpsons trivia
which I think puts me in the regular-smart not freak of nature smart category.
hmmm…did you genetically engineer this dog or perhaps it is some kind of robo-dog? otherwise no.
Kind of a tough call to define, isn’t it?
National Merit Scholar.
Top 5% on my years GRE tests.
Highest GPA in my high schools history (less impressive than it seems with the people against whom I was competing).
20 years ago my IQ was measured (going into college) at 160.
Run a successful (small) side business that is a dot-com and profitable.
Career like a rocket until I decided to tone it down.
Hmm.
I qualified for Jeopardy last year. Does that count?
I, for one, refuse to debate you unless you at least have a degree from here!
CBCD: thank you for your links. Having perused them, I agree. You are an extremely smart[sub]ass[/sub] person. I salute you!
How you doin’, O Wonderfully-Credentialed One? 
I do.
Unfortunately, they all add up to “get over yourself, you’re not that smart”.
I’ve added bolding in this quote, and some of the following quotes. I have also left out bits and pieces of the OP.
Well, I got a 3.0, and graduated with a Technical Theatre major, History minor, both of which don’t count as “real” degrees, I guess. To bad I spent all that money.
I have no idea who John Nash is, so I guess I lost this one, too.
I work in a highly competitive field, but I guess theatre isn’t a real degree or a real job . Looks like my Dad was right.
I know a bunch of really dumb people who have amassed large amounts of wealth because they look pretty. Why does that make them smarter than me?
I give you Arthur Paul Pedrick. A quote from the linked page: “Pedrick was an extremely prolific British inventor in the 1960s and 1970s. Bursting with ideas, he clearly felt he had to share them with the world. After a career as an examiner in the UK Patent Office, he spent his retirement applying for large numbers of patents. The practicality of his ideas never seems to have troubled him, as these examples show.”
I won a “Good Citizen” award when I was in 6th grade, and received a very small scholarship to attend the University of Vermont (which may not be a real University) and study theatre, which may not be a real major (as noted above), or even a real career.
Because God knows one can’t be knowledgeable about something if they don’t have a piece of paper saying they are.
(Sorry - I’m into hour three of a really boring conference call…)
I am trying to embetter myself and thought I would seek out accreditation from this educational institution. What do all you smart people think?
I would offer my credentials, but unfortunately they’re unavailable. You see:
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[li]I tried to take the SAT, but I broke my #2 pencil. WITH MY MIND.[/li][li]I was offered a membership in Mensa, but they rescinded it after I returned the offer letter, correcting their spelling and grammatical errors.[/li][li]My IQ has never been effectively measured. Every time I’ve taken the test, it seems I haven answered not only the questions that were asked, but questions that the testers hadn’t even realized they’d been asking all these years. They invariably become overwhelmed at the personal breakthrough, begin sobbing, and are unable to finish scoring the test.[/li][li]I was, unfortunately, expelled from several Universities as a “disturbing influence.” Apparently the other students became enthralled with my gifts and caused them to focus on me instead of the professor for the duration of the class. Some of the more impressionable students in my entry-level courses were known to disrobe and lay at my feet, which as you can imagine was a source of concern to the administration.[/li][li]I was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, but my dog ate it. In his defense, he explained later that he was “extremely hungry and thought it smelled like bacon.” (I had developed a serum that gives dogs the ability to speak.)[/li][/ul]
I think Yale is a fine institute.
Send in your application!
Don’t bother – it’s here.
Well, can’t help you there. I was a 3.2 GPA Computer Science/Electrical Engineering major at…a South West College. 
Nothing exceptional.
My grades in highschool were unexceptional…frankly it bored me, and I refused to do homework which I considered makework and bullshit.
Can’t help you there either. My IQ was measured at 142 when I took the exam in the '70’s. I didn’t even know the scales WENT that high to be honest. I think the IQ exam is all about being well read and being able to solve basic mathmatics problems well.
My SAT’s were in the 1480’s which I took in '76/77 timeframe, but which I didn’t use until after I got out of the Navy. They DID get me a jump start as an enlisted man though.
Again, good but not exceptional.
I own my own IT company (well, with 4 partners) that employs around 100 technicians, engineers and office type personnel, and we do about $10 million in business a year and are growing. But its nothing exceptional and I doubt we’ll ever even make it to $100 million/year…not in my lifetime anyway.
Not yet. My goal is to hit $50 million in personal assets and hang em up…tour the world with the wife and have some fun. If I can get there by my mid 50’s I’ll be a happy man.
No inventions or patents, though I’ve writen some software in my youth that was highly valuable and profitable. I also wrote some code for the Navy when I was in and after I left that was used in a lot of their early messaging systems.
Several but none really distinguished. I was awarded several citations for Desert Shield/Storm for the work I did for the Navy, and have a few business type awards. Nothing spectacular though.
Well, I seriously doubt many people listen to my point of view too carefully, so I’m not particularly worried. I never try to portray myself as an expert on anything…especially since the things that most interest me I’m certainly NOT an expert on.
-XT
I’ve got a B.A. from a small college and a modest GPA to go with it.
I used to have my seaman tickets that showed me being promoted to temporary deckwatch for a week after the AB deckwatch jumped ship, but I haven’t seen them for a while.
I might be able to find some character references. Yeah, that Tom is a character.
I guess I’ve got no evidence that I actually know what I post.
I have a diploma from Berkeley, and a videotape of me losing on Jeopardy. But I was doing well for a while…Alex Trebek called me “impressive” after the first round. Really…
I have a five-year “diversity” fellowship to do my PhD. I am rich, straight, midwestern, and white. I think it indicates gifts in certain areas.