Ranking of intelligence of poly posters

[Guynemer]

Alright. I'll bite.


loinburger -- I just had one removed myself, from my back. Benign.

[Ben Kenobi]

Can't disagree with Loinburger.

He should be number 1.

[KrazyHorse]

KrazyHorse
loinburger
Asher
Ramo
Dauphin
Lazarus and the Gimp
Imran Siddiqui
Oncle Boris
DanS
Guynemer
Ari Rahikkala
Rah
Brachy-Pride
Mercator
Ben Kenobi
BlackCat
Ninot
Lorizael
Last Conformist
Richelieu
joncha
BeBro
Provost Harrison
DinoDoc
Maquiladora
padillah
Krill
Proteus_MST
Wiglaf
Tuberski
Spec
AAHZ
SlowwHand

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Can't disagree with Loinburger.

He should be number 1.

He might be. I thought about it for a bit.

[Guynemer]

Rather higher than I deserve, I imagine.

[KrazyHorse]

I don't see why.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Guynemer
loinburger -- I just had one removed myself, from my back. Benign.

Ditto, mine was just a lipoma. I've got another four or five of the things scattered around, but the one on my left arm was hardening to the point that it hurt to apply pressure so I had it cut out (I considered doing it myself but wimped out in the end).

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Asher
I disagree. In fact, in my experience such students who are so very academically excellent can barely tie their shoelaces, **** a guy, or figure out how to efficiently grocery shop.

Such students? What such students? Students at Oxbridge aren't all academics, by any means. Indeed are mostly not. It's why they tend to *be* the people who shape the world, a lot more than those from anywhere else (bar perhaps a few Ivy League institutions). Loving the generalisations despite the fact I've already mentioned that's the university, not the students. Also, I was refering to when they get there - Oxbridge has higher entrance requirements than anywhere I'm aware of.

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
KrazyHorse
Asher
Ramo
Dauphin
Lazarus and the Gimp
Oncle Boris
DanS
Ari Rahikkala
Rah
Brachy-Pride
Mercator
BlackCat
Ninot
Lorizael
Last Conformist
Richelieu
joncha
BeBro
DinoDoc
Maquiladora
padillah
Krill
Proteus_MST
Wiglaf
Tuberski
Spec
AAHZ

You're missing me out again!

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I'm pretty sure that you don't know anybody who's gotten higher than 155 on a test which only runs to 155.

But good try.

No, but I know people here with much higher IQs than 155 I do accept the ceiling, and tests above 175-180 or so are always dubious, as to test accurately there there becomes a certain amount of subjectivity.

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Also, the SATs were done when I was 15, and measurement error is +/- 40 points or so, so I'm not particularly impressed. 1600 on the SATs is not very difficult.

I do know people who are actually smarter than me, so I wouldn't be surprised if you did too.

I was refering to people on Poly. I'd also bet on natural ability, even in sciences, Kuci, Jag and IW could come close (obviously all three a little younger).

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by VetLegion

advancing the forces of production ... bourgeois ... working class

Don't know if you ever said (wrote) that you are a marxist, but it kind of shows

Busted! Marxism is an influence. A Libertarian Marxist, perhaps, but not a communist.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Drogue

No, but I know people here with much higher IQs than 155

Yes, and I'm one of them

At a guess I'm somewhere in the 160-170 range.

Again, I don't believe that it's a meaningful number.

And as for "much" that depends what you mean. 175 on a test with SD=15 is one in a million.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by loinburger

but the one on my left arm was hardening to the point that it hurt to apply pressure so I had it cut out (I considered doing it myself but wimped out in the end).

...um... probably for the best...

[KrazyHorse]

You're missing me out again

Fark.

[KrazyHorse]

KrazyHorse
loinburger
Asher
Ramo
Dauphin
Drogue
Lazarus and the Gimp
Imran Siddiqui
Oncle Boris
DanS
Guynemer
Ari Rahikkala
Rah
Brachy-Pride
Mercator
Ben Kenobi
BlackCat
Ninot
Lorizael
Last Conformist
Richelieu
joncha
BeBro
Provost Harrison
DinoDoc
Maquiladora
padillah
Krill
Proteus_MST
Wiglaf
Tuberski
Spec
AAHZ
SlowwHand

[b etor]

my IQ is higher than 155.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
This set of instruments for measuring quality is so bourgeois, it's embarrasing.

Wait, those weren't measures of measuring intelligence *at all*. They were responding to arguments from Asher that people at Oxbridge are purely academic and don't impact the world.

Intelligence would have to be a combination of some form of inate test (IQ/SAT/GRE), academic ability (level/university/grades) what you've done in the world, etc. Please don't misread my arguments, as I remember you did in the housing/debt thread. I'm not suggesting any of those things are ways of measuring intelligence or quality at all.