# Who is smarter, you or your SO? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 26, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-smarter-you-or-your-so/314267 "2005-07-26T18:08:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-smarter-you-or-your-so/314267/41 "2005-07-31T17:37:02Z")
[QUOTE=Jaade] Definitely me šŸ˜ƒ [QUOTE] I happen to know your SO, and Iā€™d have to say that smug assertion is highly debatable. ---
**Author:** ![dre2xl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@dre2xl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dre2xl)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-smarter-you-or-your-so/314267/42 "2005-07-31T20:40:55Z")
Always been the smarter one, but Iā€™d love to be the dumber one for a change. Smart men make me very, very hot. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-smarter-you-or-your-so/314267/43 "2005-07-31T20:58:35Z")
My husband and I were tickled to learn that we have exactly the same total score on the GRE (Graduate Record Exam). The balance is different, though: his verbal score is identical to my math score, and my verbal score is identical to his math score. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-smarter-you-or-your-so/314267/44 "2005-07-31T23:40:25Z")
Iā€™m the smart one, when measured by conventional standards (e.g. my SAT score of 1600). Iā€™m more analytical (sometimes \*\*too \*\*analytical) and more creative. I have an intuitive grasp of math and music and visual arts. But My Guy can speak four languages fluently, and has a whole lot of street smarts, which I have none of. He absolutely shines in social situations (itā€™s amazing to watch him work a room), whereas Iā€™m often a wallflower. People who donā€™t know us very well probably wonder why weā€™re together, since heā€™s a total ā€œhottieā€ and much younger. But people who know us better have said that weā€™re a perfect match. We think so too. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-smarter-you-or-your-so/314267/45 "2005-08-01T01:43:04Z")
My husbandā€™s intelligence has always awed me. He turned down Columbia for a full scholarship elsewhere. He majored in chemical engineering and still has textbooks with titles that I donā€™t understand. Heā€™s also a fabulous writer with a quick wit that keeps me laughing a lot when weā€™re together. Iā€™m not stupid either. I graduated from college Summa Cum Laude. Iā€™m a published writer with a prestigious part-time job. My verbal SAT score was somewhat higher than his and in fact the highest in my large public high school ā€“ but I canā€™t do math well and donā€™t possess his all around intelligence. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-smarter-you-or-your-so/314267/46 "2005-08-01T03:03:58Z")
Mr. Del and I have different areas of smarts. Iā€™m more of the bookish type, I did better in school (although he did fine), and I tend to be more of a generalist ā€“ I know a fairly decent amount about a lot of things. I think Iā€™m more savvy about people and relationships. He has a better memory, but Iā€™m better at tracking down information. Heā€™s the champ at bizarre trivia, and much better at ā€œfiguring things outā€ ā€“ I get frustrated and bored, while heā€™ll plug away at a problem until he comes up with the solution. Heā€™s got a few areas where heā€™s extremely well-versed, really expert levels of knowledge, while if thereā€™s something heā€™s not interested in, he canā€™t be bothered to retain a single piece of information about it. We met in a book club so I guess we both valued intelligence in some way at least. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-smarter-you-or-your-so/314267.md?page=2)