Mensa member. Stayed long enough to order a “Whistlepig is a member of Mensa” plaque, since there are no local Mensa SIGs or groups in my town.
My last employee evaluation included the word “brilliant”. And my boss is one of the top people in the nation for knowledge about our professional area.
I got a 70 on my Miller Analogies Test to get into grad school. I really don’t know how good that is, but before I took the test my advisor refused to tell me what I needed to score to get into grad school. I don’t know why. But it was fun to have the following conversation:
Whistlepig: “Damn, I only got a 70. Do I need to re-take it before I apply?”
Advisor: "Uh, you only needed a 35.’
So it wasn’t so much of a grad school.
I have never played the Trivial Pursuit boxed game without having been accused of cheating by those who don’t know me.
I have been told by several women I wanted to or was dating that I intimidated them by my intelligence.
They all said I had never done anything to “act smart” it was just that I knew so much about so many things.
Whistlepig, who has read every Readers Digest between 1960 and last month. And was caught up on the early ones by 1974 (age 12).
I also paid cash for a 2003 BMW that year, with my own money.
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On the other hand, I just tried to take a gulp from a can of Dr. Pepper while still reading this thread, and failed to align it properly with my mouth. Now I have sticky soda residue all over my chin. You have to take the bad with the good, I suppose…
-bored college student who just finished his homework
Ehh…, I’m a geophysicist. Licensed scientist by the state board that oversees us. I know a little bit about that.
I went to college at a large state university and graduated with honors. My SATS and LSATS were up there (94th to 96th percentile), but I didn’t peg the needle on any of them. I have no doubt that I could have chosen my law school, if I’d wanted to do that. But I didn’t.
10,000+ posts here, and I haven’t been hounded away yet.
Oh hell, you don’t even need other people to feel stupid. As I was trying to get the plate for the door to line up properly so the door would shut again after my home-unimprovement project today failed to keep it from squeaking - I finally figured out to move it farther forward given it’d only shut when slammed closed. According to statistics, my IQ is within the range that’s higher than 97.8% of people, yet it took me at least five tries before I could figure out how to get the door to close… :wally If this is what reasonably intelligent gets you, I’d hate to be average.
Like Kat I’m also unambitious. My high grades were high enough to be stay in the top 5-10% of my class and be included in “who’s who among American high school students” all four years, but math kept me from getting more than honors most quarters. (I was always on the honor roll, anyway since a few As balance out a C or even D.) My SAT scores weren’t anything to brag about, because despite getting a 670 on the verbal, my math score was so underwhelming that my total was only 1030- “recentered” that’s 730 verbal/410 math.
I went to an average college, and got average grades. I only made highest honors one semester out of eight. Only one merit-based scholarship, too.
My job is average as well, but I know I’m *very * good at it; for my content area (writing) I’m within the top five- out of a couple hundred- in regards to both speed and accuracy, and those who are better are all significantly older than I am and have more advanced degrees.
I’m smart enough to realize that msmith537’s OP can be solved better by msmith perusing other message boards than members here listing credentials. G’wan, spend some quality time out there and then come back with your impressions.
I’ve got 2 purple hearts. And just a few minutes ago, while surfing around, I was the 876,245 person to click on that site and won some wonderful prize.
Retired at 55, two years ago.
Married 36 years and still horny for her.
Not on par with some - make that most - posters here, but what the hell I’m still retired and most of you smarty pants have to get up and go to work on Monday.
This will get me nowhere in a nowhere thread, but I haven’t been there in awhile so here is my take:
Got something over 100 in second grade for that IQ whatever
1040ish on my pre-SAT (never actually took the real one)
Fairly good GPA so far in highschool (one B due to stubborness)
One of my favorite math teachers gave me the comment “You have book sense but you sure are lacking the common type”
Currently attending a public highschool and doing everything as scheduled
Got a 2 on the exams for AP Studio Art and a 3 for AP World (scheduled excuse: never once tried for both, never knew how to write an essay for the latter)
And yet, I constantly attempt to solve problems in GQ; I am not an expert, just a typical, slightly ambitious high school student who loves the occasional math problem. I have on more than one occassion answered questions in GQ because I was, well, blowing off my homework. It just comes down to who is right and wrong; as others have stated: if you really want to know something, teach yourself.
My GPA for my B.S. musta been right around 4.0 in my major and one of my minors (my actual GPA was around 3.3 or 3.4 because I basically sucked at the classes in my other minor). This was at the top school in my field. If I’d taken one more class, I would have taken all of the classes that the typical M.S. student would take.
My GPA for my M.S. was about 3.9 at what is either the second- or third-best school in my field, depending on who you ask. This is after skipping a bunch of reading to make things more challenging.
SAT scores somewhere in the upper fifteen-hundreds.
On IQ tests, I pretty consistently score around 130.
Awards/scholarships: Yep.
Publications: Yep. Including one that I think is gonna turn out to be a minor classic. I’ve seen it referenced by a number of people in good academic programs and by at least one research proposal at a top research-oriented software company.
Recognized industry expert: Not really, but that’s mostly by choice. I designed a fair chunk of the leading software package in its field, though.
And I also have ADD, so this stuff was done while being distracted by shiny things all the time.
I’ll still readily admit that I’m a dumbass, though. Achievements in one narrow area don’t necessarily mean anything in the grand scheme of things.
Degree from MIT, PhD in Computer Science, lots of papers and book chapters and a few patents.
And I’ve been to John Nash’s house. ( but true.)
And it doesn’t matter. Especially if you are specialized, like anyone with an advanced degree is, what you write about outside your speciality is no better than anyone else.
B.S. of urban planning, and Master of Urban Planning degrees,
AICP (American Institute of Certified Planners) certification
Scores from various standardized college admission tests, childhood IQ tests, and so on.
Still, I feel like a mental midget compared to about 75% of the Dopers out there.
Interesting background here. My IQ was finally measured properly this year, and was discovered to hover somewhere around 167. Combine that with severe ADHD and it’s pretty obvious why I drove teachers mad as a child. I also graduated near the top of my high school class and am pulling a pretty high GPA while active on student govenrnment and college radio and holding a part-time job.
I also have been awarded a full-tuition scholarship and a few other scholarships. In the less measurable areas, my vocabulary is amazing when I can remember what I was talking about and I’ve been banned from all Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit games by my friends so someone else can win.
While I do have earned credentials and awards that many people would think would put me in the smart category, I always live in fear that some day someone is going to realize that I’m just not that intelligent, that perhaps my writing really isn’t all that great, and that I’m just really good at faking it.
Regardless of my supposed intelligence, I don’t think I’ll ever actually know enough to consider myself smart.
I got a 1340 on my SATs, but I must admit I’m a lazy academic and my GPA in both high school and college has not been stellar, especially not for the liberal studies portion of my tenure. I’m in my third year of college, majoring in International Affairs with a focus in Anthropology. (Florida State University has an interesting International Affairs department. It’s got nine different majors involved, so you have a choice as to what you want to do with things.) If I am able to, I’d like to focus my graduate studies on one of three things: nomadic cultures, occult studies, or museum studies. I read academic books for fun, and am a terminal procrastinator when it comes to studying and writing papers. I especially hate studying, but feel it’s not so bad if I don’t have a review sheet. I’ve worked retail, foodservice, and database entry for a tech company. I speak English, a smattering of tourist French, quite a bit more German, and am a cognate for Icelandic. I really wish I had more time in the day and more resources to do the things I want to do. I’m crafty, and enjoy doing counted cross stitch and embroidery. I notice patterns, and, if my math were better, I’d be more interested in quantum physics and computer programming.
I’m a random hodge-podge of information, the ability to abapt*, pattern noticing, and childlike curiosity. I’d like to say I’m smart, but I feel mentally dwarfed in some areas by my friends, mostly in the realm of technology and computer science. I’m eager to learn, though, and I’m often called upon for a practical solution to a problem.
*I used abapt in the sense that I am not using several generations to make changes. Damn that ecology class in high school for making my terms a bit more confusing.
Based on the theory that one is only as smart as their last wise-crack, clearly alice_in_wonderland and Shirley Ujest are the smartest persons to have posted in this thread.
And me?
“I got no job to go to
Don’t work and I don’t get paid
I’ve got a bottle of wine, I’m feelin’ fine
And I believe I’ve got it made”
