Are you smarter than the average Apolytoner?

[Asher]

For the record, I have not voted in the poll because I can't figure it out.

It's a yes/no question, but no yes/no answers?!?! Confusing!!

[Gibsie]

I may not be smart, but shouldn't half of people be above the 50% precentile and the other half below? Is that not how the average of a gorup of people is worked out?

[Kropotkin]

There's also (at the moment) 10 posters that's the smartest. There's at least 9 DL's for the moderators to work on.

[Japher]

Gibsie: we aren't smart enough to figure that out... shhh.

[Az]

Well, Gibsie, you are right. you're not smart.

[Sten Sture]

There is the new question at the end of most IQ tests that asks if you have posted on Apoly OT, and if so to deduct 43.86 pts from your quotient.



If 49.2% of logins have not posted, that leaves those of use who have... at best... in the bottom half of the IQ table.

[Sava]

I can't say due to the broad range of what makes someone smart. I have good math and problem solving skills, above average writing skills, I'm fairly informed of current events, but still young and inexperienced. I really have no base of knowledge to compare my skills and intelligence to others on these forums.

[SlowwHand]

Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure. - I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Sava
I can't say due to the broad range of what makes someone smart. I have good math and problem solving skills, above average writing skills, I'm fairly informed of current events, but still young and inexperienced. I really have no base of knowledge to compare my skills and intelligence to others on these forums.

I have OK math skills ans averege problem solving skills. Excellent writing skills I'm pretty informed of current events, and i'm old. Waaay old.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Tassadar5000


I have OK math skills ans averege problem solving skills. Excellent writing skills I'm pretty informed of current events, and i'm old. Waaay old.

Yeah, but you suck

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Sava
Yeah, but you suck

Well your just anti-american. So there.

[Gibsie]

Putting those writing skillz to good use I see

[Hot Mustard]

There are many types of smart and most of them refer to an accumulation of knowledge in particular fields, or occasionally, in a breadth of fields.

Personally, I prefer to guage a person by their wisdom, even young people. A wise person is usually aware, regardless of their accumulated knowledge, that they remain ignorant of a great amount.

[Az]

humility is overrated. I don't like getting into this discussion altogether, personally. There are no good ways out of it.

[Jaguar]

I wasn't sure what to vote. In terms of IQ, standardized test ability, all that ****, I'm probably in the 99th. In terms of Civ-ability, I'm also probably in the 99th. (Only 5 year old to land pre-1000AD on Emperor in CivI ) However, I am not anywhere near as knowledgable as a lot of people when it comes to world politics and stuff, the sort of thing debated on this forum. I ended up voting 75th, although 50th also sounds reasonable, depending on how you define "smart."