# Who's smarter than you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-smarter-than-you/629892 "2012-07-30T20:46:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-smarter-than-you/629892/21 "2012-07-31T19:17:16Z")
I’d put myself in the lower half of people here. But then, I’m an optimist. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-smarter-than-you/629892/22 "2012-07-31T19:38:05Z")
My boyfriend and one of my friends, who is not only smarter (getting a ph.d. or a masters, I don’t remember which), but gorgeous and nicer too boot! And she’s so cute and sweet, I can’t not like her! I’m pretty sure my previous boyfriend was also smarter than me, but he doesn’t use it. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-smarter-than-you/629892/23 "2012-07-31T19:42:49Z")
The guy who draws _Exploding Dog_. People submit the ideas, so he doesn’t have to come up with them, and he draws stick figures. He’s much smarter than me. ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-smarter-than-you/629892/24 "2012-07-31T20:11:26Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > My partner is smarter than I am . . . but I have better taste in men. That’s what my husband says (except it is his taste in women). Being somewhat egotistical, I know no one who is smarter than I am. Yes, there are many people who have more knowledge or capabilities in a specific area or field but no one who can compete with my general knowledge or ability to solve problems. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-smarter-than-you/629892/25 "2012-07-31T20:44:04Z")
I hang around with people who are smarter and better-looking than myself, in the hopes that it will rub off. 🙂 The smartest _individual_ I can think of is a guy I met about 12 years ago, who started learning a language on the same day I did. He was fluent in six months. Granted, he was in school at the time and had more time, but still… He met a Bulgarian women and one day his blog popped up in Bulgarian. On a Wednesday I showed him the Shavian alphabet, which I had just discovered on the net. The following Sunday, he was taking notes in it. He works in cryptography. Very nice guy, and a total refutation of the idea that smart people _have_ to be social misfits. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-smarter-than-you/629892/26 "2012-07-31T21:36:36Z")
I’m sure a lot of people here are smarter than me. In my real life, the REALLY smart ones are all dead. My grandfather, who taught me I could do anything I set my mind to, in an age when girls were expected to be only wives and mothers. My uncle who was scary smart, so much, he just couldn’t fit into society. And my sweet, beautiful son who tested in the 160s. He too, had trouble fitting. R.I.P. to three beautiful minds. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-smarter-than-you/629892/27 "2012-08-01T04:02:49Z")
Paris Hilton. She’s vapid and does absolutely nothing of value and makes metric fucktons of money doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-smarter-than-you/629892/28 "2012-08-01T10:59:34Z")
> [@PandaBear77](#): > > Paris Hilton. She’s vapid and does absolutely nothing of value and makes metric fucktons of money doing it. You’re right, that is pretty smart. She’s not even pretty and she still manages it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-smarter-than-you/629892.md?page=1)