It’s really a simple matter of Bayesian reasoning. Roughly 1 in 30,000 people have an IQ of 160 or higher. What proportion of people (1) tend to exaggerate; and (2) are willing to exaggerate their IQ? I don’t know, but based on my general experience, I would say it’s a lot more than 1 in 30,000. So if you meet a random person who claims to have a 160+ IQ, there’s an excellent chance that they come from the subset of the population that exaggerates their IQ. As opposed to the subset of the population that really does have a 160+ IQ.
Has anyone been inspired to start a ‘Pretty People’ thread?
Well, hell, every picture thread is an invitation to others to compliment us on how pretty/handsome/stylish we are. I’m as guilty as anyone.
I recall reading once about a support group for extremely good looking people. Which makes a little sense, since they no doubt face certain special problems. Still, it would be interesting to see who shows up for meetings.
The women in this thread no doubt.
However, if you go to a convention of 40 year old McDonalds counterpeople, the chances of 160+ IQ will be considerably less than 1 in 30k. If you go to an MIT reunion, considerably more. Unless you think that MIT only had one undergrad with a 160+ IQ in the last 30 years, of course.
Don’t the really smart ones usually drop out?
That’s probably true. If we focus on this board, my best guesstimate is that 160+ IQ people are still pretty rare. And exaggerators are pretty common everywhere.
I wish. 
I knew someone who double majored in math and physics, and had plenty of time for playing poker. He got all As best I can tell, and is a professor somewhere now. If he didn’t have a 160 IQ, at least, I’ll eat my diploma.
Pretty rare, definitely. But see post 238 for an analysis that shows that the Doper population doesn’t look like the normal population. I have no idea what the distribution of IQ is here, but using the distribution of the population as a whole to make predictions about what you’ll find here is fallacious, and as I said above (and I certainly don’t blame you for not reading the whole thread) the number one mistake in doing sampling. It makes the baby Gauss cry. 
Everybody should just post how much money they make in a year. Then we’ll see how smart you really are.
The smart people will exaggerate.
olivesmarch4th, I started a new thread in MPSIMS to continue this discussion since I think we’ve hijacked this one enough.
The thread is here
Did I do that somewhere?
This comment seems like the spittle flying, keyboard pounding, nasty intentioned rantings of a hateful lunatic. I had to check out your other posts to see if you were like this all the time or just having a bad day. You may seriously want to look into anger management therapy or something.
I can’t imagine how exhausting it has to be to sustain such a high level of anger all the time. Fuck IQ, I’d like to see what your EI/EQ is. You took a reasonable comment from another member and went to Defcon 1, asshole edition.
Hey, gang… let’s see whose penis is the smallest!
My pinis is pretty small, only 15" long flaccid. I’m kind of ashamed of it.
I think it’s natural to want to brag about the size of your penis. But as time went on, I realized that what really matters is what I do with my penis. Also I’ve realized over time that many people have bigger penises than I do.
I must point out that my penis was measured at 14 inches on the Holmes-Stanford ruler. I thought I was the cock of the walk. Then I met Long Dong Silver, and realized how small I really was, even though I’m constantly complimented on my enormous penis.
Sure, but how big’s your penis?
Is there a conversion chart somewhere to Berle-Diggler?