What percentage of people do you believe are less intelligent than you?

Depends really. In my age group, 18-21, I'd say 65-75%. For older peoplem 35-45%. Younger, 85-95%.

I am more intelligent than most people under age 5!!

Every normed test I've taken but one has had the same percentile rank (and the one was poorly designed).

intelligence is an illusion, I try not to think of things this way

I honestly don't know. The only way I figured you could guess is by IQ. Mine is above average so I said about 35-45%

I checked "over 95%."

What does "spiritually cautious" have to do with my superior intelligence?

I went back and changed my vote after I thought about what the question is asking. I don't think I'm necessarily more intelligent than a lot of people (although I still voted a fairly high percentage), but I do think I am much better educated than a lot of people, which often makes me come across as more intelligent.

Nearly everyone is above average; Garrison Keillor would be so proud.

Um...I dunno. Depends on your definition of smart.

I think how you treat other people is just as important as how clever you are. Hare Krishna!

i think it depends on what you are talking about......... but i said about 50%. but who knows.

I really have no idea, but I more or less arbitrarily selected 65-75%. I arrived at that figure by taking the result of the IQ test I took in school (which had the same result as one I took in a magazine) and dividing by two. I really don't think it matters though, I may as well have picked a number at random.

There is a serious flaw in your logic.

I had the same thought as you, so I put it somewhere in the middle.

I'm an arrogant sonofadog. I put 85-95%. I would have put 'over 95%, but I don't know how to be 'spiritually cautious'.

If you use standard IQ tests (which I don't believe in) then probably about 90% since my IQ is 135-160. I have many shortcomings that cancel it out though: limited working memory, and scattered thought caused by complete shortcircuiting a few times per minute ("what was I just thinking"). It's either some sort of ADD or temporal lobe epilepsy. I feel gifted though in being able to see big picture relationships that most people miss, though many have this capability with lower 'IQ's. There are so many types of gifts, for instance being able to calm a wild animal is something that won't show up on an IQ test.

Not if daver is correct (meaning the average is now above 100) (and 100 is what she means by average).

At least 80%

I'm not sure I follow you there, but I got the impression that daver was referring to SCers and the survey was referring to the general population. No big surprise there. My point, in my comment to autumnlight, was that if you are more intelligent than the average person, there should be a higher(than 50%) percentage of people less intelligent than you, not lower.

Re: wicca - that was my instant thought too. I was jokingly giving her the benefit of the doubt by revealing a context in which her logic was indeed valid. That context relied upon daver's comment to be referring to the general populace, though I realise the original benchmark of the quotient was intended to be that the average was at 100, not say at the 111 to 143 as would be required for her scenario. She might be right though; How many people do you know with IQ's under 100?

According to exam results, over 95%. But people are intelligent in different ways and at different things. I'm good at the academic stuff but I'm not nearly as streetwise as a lot of other people. That *is* a form of intelligence too. The problem is that there are so many kinds of intelligence, but academic intelligence is the only one that people spend time gauging, even though it's certainly not more important than other kinds.

I hate it when people put a lot of emphasis on academic intelligence. It means very little compared to the sort of intelligence that makes people warm, kind, good or wise.

I hesitated marking 95% :)

just because I'm not sure I want to be "spiritually cautious"......LoL

I almost think that's by grand design. The intelligent must think for themself to create the anti-thesis by lone nerd-like contemplation and introspection while observing from the fringe of society; hopefully, like us, they realise they missed so many things like street smarts and comeraderie that they form the synthesis.

Wiley Coyote, Supra-Genius

Oh, honestly, in terms of base intelligence, by birth, the infamous p factor... 99.95%. In terms of actual intelligence (ACT score, for instance), as opposed to potential, you can drop the five.

If you are in the top quintile, you kind of repel those people with IQ's under 100. Beyond that, you tend to give those people you know the benefit of the doubt when guessing their Intelligence, and usually end up guessing higher than the reality. You think things like "Well, he is good at . If he only tried harder. He should be able to he just isnt interested. He has bad luck with tests. Etc.". They actually Re-Norm the major tests every few years, so I know for a fact that average is sitting at 101 (Difficult to explain why it doesnt come out to 100, but trust me), with standard deviations set at 110-120 and 80-90 depending on the test (Although in theory a 101 is equal across all tests, a 150 on one scale may be a 160 on another).

Do you border on insanity in the sense that you just don't care about some (significant) things that everyone else thinks you should care about? Not trying to be intrusive, just wondering. You seem really free.

To the former comment: I am thinking to study environmental and esteem issues on test taking. It is my guess that scores could fluctuate wildly depending on ones mood. I once got a third grader up to calculating surface areas from not even being able to count to 20 over a sum of 6 hours, much in the same fashion that between the ages of five and eight, my step dad fostered in me the comprehension and desire to read our local libraries entire engineering session. And yes, like you, I gave people the benefit of the doubt because I couldn't believe they couldn't figure things out. There were many ways in which I was backwards too, especially humor, relationships, and team sports. I became egotistical and an intellectual snob which I have tried to convert to other mind frames over recent years. I swear to you though that there are other forms of intelligence which can not be seen from where you stand. I remember one girlfriend of my chum whom I discussed physics and such with back when I was 20.. I couldn't believe that she got good grades in school yet didn't even know stars were other suns. Recently I called them (they've teenagers now), and was astounded at how brilliant she really is. Back yonder, I could only see w & y, so missed her gifts in x & z. I guess my friend had not. Start on a spectrum with mechanical engineering, move past art and social skills, and head towards spiritual thought, and that's where you'll find x & z.
Addressing the latter:
Yes.
I do not live in world of probabilities. There is cause and effect in my life, but not of the sort measured by science. I decide that if I need a swing arm to support my keyboard, there will be one at the thrift store the next day. I don't forget to buy the wheat thins this time because they are blocking the aisle with a two for one offer. I don't buy the TV card for my computer because the three comments from strangers are 'let's go', 'you can leave without spending anything', and something similar. In fact I can be plugged into constant advice or control of my environment within my needs. If I am told not to get a TV card, I can let it go because it must be for the best. Perhaps I would prefer the larger screen of my existing TV and need to diminish my debt. The three times I had a gun pointed near me, I knew that I will exist beyond this and if I am meant to stay, I need not live it in fear. In fact, I get supernaturally adept and calm when in emergencies, like the time my student driver took her first (sharp) turn not knowing one needs to slow down first. In the blink of an eye, I was at the controls with her in my lap and got the car back on the ground (and off the garden divider) before it rolled entirely. and that was before I had all this spiritual awareness. M y basic attitude is that of an alien or angel taking a brief vacation here. I take making sure everyone has a good time and is on a path to higher wisdom seriously, the rest, like survival, I do my best at but have surrendered to the notion that my dharma is to concentrate on the former.

I loved wiley e coyote, and get smart, and hogans heros, and tennessee tuxedo. You should see the stuff we made for our spy kits when I was young. I made some reference to it to you long ago when i logged in as 'turing', my retired weapons designer persona.
turing = turing test, touring, you rang?, & shroud of turin. I had to vent some years of shelved persona.

I liked all those TV shows too. Macquiver was good in that way too, though I was too old by then (to not see it as cheesy).
turing, tutoring, tudoring, two rings?

What can I say? I'm a renaissance gal.

Well, I don't generally associate with them, I have certainly met plenty. Not that I have seen the results of tests, but it isn't hard to tell.

If we were going by IQ it would be 99.6% (and I've the piece of paper to prove it) but only my ego puts any relevance in that It really depends on how you define intelligent of course, but I'm working my way towards it being a large percentage

I just bought a new bumper sticker that reads "Ignorance is typical".

I just noticed your typo. I'm going to have to point it out to q.

Were you trying to confuse me and prove I'm not in the top 5%? I've only had 17 years exprience of the world, my vocabulary isn't quite as extended as yours! I think I get what you mean though (after reading it about 18 times).........

The intelligent should be contemplative re-entering outcasts. That way they can make independently creative contributions based on objective observation of what they're missing out on and it's value. thinkers don't have time to think if they are involved in streetsmarts. Of course anyone streetsmart is well within reason to laugh off any thinker.
Your comment was mature for 17 yrs. the vocabulary came marx who was studying the psychological science of social change, particularly as it applied to new socialist movements. His main contribution, parallelling Darwinism, was the pattern of thesis & anti-thesis forming synthesis. For instance an extreme radical or reactionary movement though remaining the lunatic fringe, will influence the definition of middle of the road politics.

I have a 154 IQ, whoopdy do

Who cares?