Shelly's Thoughts on Claiming that One is Intelligent
The title of my post was supposed to tie in with the titles of the two posts below (Puffy's and Wally's Thoughts on Relationships) but Puffy spoiled my plan and removed his post.
Ernie: STUPID PUFFY!
I am writing this post because I am sick and tired of someone who keeps repeating things to me like 'you say you are so smart', and 'you claim you are so smart' and well, permutations of that kinda stuff. For the record, I never actually proclaimed to this person that I was smart. And no, unlike that person, I didn't announce my IQ over Friendster (or any place on the net for that matter). I can't. I don't know what it is =P.
What I did say, however, was that I thought I was smarter than him. Which obviously shifted to I KNOW I am smarter (c'mon, if you keep using the word smart when there are so many synonyms for it.... eek did I just say I said someone was less intelligent than me because of his insistence on using ONE word and only that word in his statements... me, with my admittedly small vocabulary? I... ahhh... blame... PMS!). Malcolm said I was like blatantly insulting that guy by saying that I never said I wasn't very smart, but yet saying I was smarter than him (repetitive use of word 'smart' here because it was the word used then). Eh no, that was never my intention. Hmm... maybe it was during an argument that this 'smarter than you' nonsense first appeared. Hmm... but that guy said, 'People dont mean the things they say when they see red' in an email to me (ya when I am apparently ignoring him on MSN he will take time off his busy schedule to write me an nice long email which Puffy has read in more detail than I have =X), so then, why DOES it affect this guy so much that I keep getting 'you claim you are smarter than me' thrown into my face. Because I'm so obviously wrong and this guy would like to keep rubbing it in? (Not working lalala). Actually, I have no idea >.<.
Being who I am, and having the experiences I've had, I seriously don't see IQ tests as a definitive way of actually measuring a person's intellect level. Jason Lee had this to say about Mensa people.
Which says that Mensa people (i.e. those tested with high IQs) are either
1. Not really very intelligent
2. Have no idea how to use their intelligence
3. Know how to use their intelligence, but refuse to use it nevertheless (which I feel is rather dumb in itself, but that's just my opinion).
It could be some bizarre combination of the 3 too. Goodness knows. Maybe someone from Mensa can enlighten me?
Licai said one of his ex-classmates tested as having an IQ of 200. The guy behind the girl with the yellow ribbon (see post) was tested as having an IQ of 190. My 1.8+m tall JC classmate has an IQ that is more than his height in cm. And while I can say that the latter 2 are, indeed, smart (can't say for the first guy simply because I don't know him), they never had to take an IQ test for me to ever feel so. They just impressed the idea on me by what they did (read post in link above to gain an idea of how to use your IQ to get you out of disciplinary action by the principal).
There's also the possibility that I simply cannot feel that the guy who I claim to be smarter than is smart, because I have been surrounded by these people for years, and hence people with lower IQs just don't seem intelligent enough to me. POSSIBILITY. Being in Raffles isn't all that some make it out to be (think - overrated. Taking cover before the other 2 co-bloggers come after me >.<). Yup, maybe my judgement has been clouded by all these high flyers floating around next to me. But still, I maintain, it's your actions, and how you react to situations, not how you do on tests/exams/etc that really show if you're intelligent or not.
So back to that guy whom I claim to be smarter than. Why did I ever make such a claim? His tested IQ of 180 (+?) doesn't affect me in the least. His ability to tone it down to 160 due to ageing, lack of sleep etc also doesn't impress me. The fact that he announced your IQ on friendster and said he's proud of it makes me wonder why heeven have to tell anyone what your IQ is; can't people already see you're smart? (No, the GEP thing in my friendster is for me to find my secondary school/JC friends, not for me to proclaim my intelligence. Yes, I have found several through that, and friends have found me too.) I always say I judge from what I see, and so far, he's done nothing particularly intelligent infront of me.
So exactly why do I feel I am smarter than him? No, it's not because I'm from GEP and he isn't. No, it's not because I could get into all those Raffles schools and he couldn't. These mean nothing to me in terms of intellect level. Maybe it because I don't need my partner to rebid spades in order to know that he has 6 (not 5) of them, especially when table has 4, I have shown partner that I have 2 spades, and yet partner refuses to cash the K of spades after leading the Ace. Perhaps it's the fact that (in someone else's words) he appears to be committing social suicide, which may be to some more an EQ thing and an IQ thing, but surely, intelligent people would realise when toning down would be a better (more socially acceptable?) option.
Maybe it's all a facade. He's could actually be potraying himself this way to the world because he thinks it's amusing, and he's secretly laughing at all of us for reacting the way we do towards him. As he's very much entitled to that, I thus feel I have to right to say that I'm smarter than him, judging from what I see. Not sure why he keeps reminding me of that I said that though. That's really the part that puzzles me. So that at the end of his long drawn out play he can ambush me and say 'I tried to warn you! I repeated that statement to you 1 million times!' o.O. I really have no clue.
Secretly, deep down inside, could it be possible that despite what I have said, I actually hold this guy in high esteem, and think he is truly brilliant, much more than myself?
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Ernie, if you don't stop giggling this instant I won't let you watch Ally again.
Ernie: STUPID PUFFY!
I am writing this post because I am sick and tired of someone who keeps repeating things to me like 'you say you are so smart', and 'you claim you are so smart' and well, permutations of that kinda stuff. For the record, I never actually proclaimed to this person that I was smart. And no, unlike that person, I didn't announce my IQ over Friendster (or any place on the net for that matter). I can't. I don't know what it is =P.
What I did say, however, was that I thought I was smarter than him. Which obviously shifted to I KNOW I am smarter (c'mon, if you keep using the word smart when there are so many synonyms for it.... eek did I just say I said someone was less intelligent than me because of his insistence on using ONE word and only that word in his statements... me, with my admittedly small vocabulary? I... ahhh... blame... PMS!). Malcolm said I was like blatantly insulting that guy by saying that I never said I wasn't very smart, but yet saying I was smarter than him (repetitive use of word 'smart' here because it was the word used then). Eh no, that was never my intention. Hmm... maybe it was during an argument that this 'smarter than you' nonsense first appeared. Hmm... but that guy said, 'People dont mean the things they say when they see red' in an email to me (ya when I am apparently ignoring him on MSN he will take time off his busy schedule to write me an nice long email which Puffy has read in more detail than I have =X), so then, why DOES it affect this guy so much that I keep getting 'you claim you are smarter than me' thrown into my face. Because I'm so obviously wrong and this guy would like to keep rubbing it in? (Not working lalala). Actually, I have no idea >.<.
Being who I am, and having the experiences I've had, I seriously don't see IQ tests as a definitive way of actually measuring a person's intellect level. Jason Lee had this to say about Mensa people.
Jason says:
last time when i did sailling in SAJC.
Jason says:
the boat admin people complained once they rented boats to mensa
Jason says:
and they totally fucked up the rope system
Jason says:
thought they were too smart and didn't need to learn properly
Jason says:
their boat couldn't move
Jason says:
and they had to cut some ropes cos they use dead knots all over the place
Which says that Mensa people (i.e. those tested with high IQs) are either
1. Not really very intelligent
2. Have no idea how to use their intelligence
3. Know how to use their intelligence, but refuse to use it nevertheless (which I feel is rather dumb in itself, but that's just my opinion).
It could be some bizarre combination of the 3 too. Goodness knows. Maybe someone from Mensa can enlighten me?
Licai said one of his ex-classmates tested as having an IQ of 200. The guy behind the girl with the yellow ribbon (see post) was tested as having an IQ of 190. My 1.8+m tall JC classmate has an IQ that is more than his height in cm. And while I can say that the latter 2 are, indeed, smart (can't say for the first guy simply because I don't know him), they never had to take an IQ test for me to ever feel so. They just impressed the idea on me by what they did (read post in link above to gain an idea of how to use your IQ to get you out of disciplinary action by the principal).
There's also the possibility that I simply cannot feel that the guy who I claim to be smarter than is smart, because I have been surrounded by these people for years, and hence people with lower IQs just don't seem intelligent enough to me. POSSIBILITY. Being in Raffles isn't all that some make it out to be (think - overrated. Taking cover before the other 2 co-bloggers come after me >.<). Yup, maybe my judgement has been clouded by all these high flyers floating around next to me. But still, I maintain, it's your actions, and how you react to situations, not how you do on tests/exams/etc that really show if you're intelligent or not.
So back to that guy whom I claim to be smarter than. Why did I ever make such a claim? His tested IQ of 180 (+?) doesn't affect me in the least. His ability to tone it down to 160 due to ageing, lack of sleep etc also doesn't impress me. The fact that he announced your IQ on friendster and said he's proud of it makes me wonder why heeven have to tell anyone what your IQ is; can't people already see you're smart? (No, the GEP thing in my friendster is for me to find my secondary school/JC friends, not for me to proclaim my intelligence. Yes, I have found several through that, and friends have found me too.) I always say I judge from what I see, and so far, he's done nothing particularly intelligent infront of me.
So exactly why do I feel I am smarter than him? No, it's not because I'm from GEP and he isn't. No, it's not because I could get into all those Raffles schools and he couldn't. These mean nothing to me in terms of intellect level. Maybe it because I don't need my partner to rebid spades in order to know that he has 6 (not 5) of them, especially when table has 4, I have shown partner that I have 2 spades, and yet partner refuses to cash the K of spades after leading the Ace. Perhaps it's the fact that (in someone else's words) he appears to be committing social suicide, which may be to some more an EQ thing and an IQ thing, but surely, intelligent people would realise when toning down would be a better (more socially acceptable?) option.
Maybe it's all a facade. He's could actually be potraying himself this way to the world because he thinks it's amusing, and he's secretly laughing at all of us for reacting the way we do towards him. As he's very much entitled to that, I thus feel I have to right to say that I'm smarter than him, judging from what I see. Not sure why he keeps reminding me of that I said that though. That's really the part that puzzles me. So that at the end of his long drawn out play he can ambush me and say 'I tried to warn you! I repeated that statement to you 1 million times!' o.O. I really have no clue.
Secretly, deep down inside, could it be possible that despite what I have said, I actually hold this guy in high esteem, and think he is truly brilliant, much more than myself?
.
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Ernie, if you don't stop giggling this instant I won't let you watch Ally again.
posted by Shelly at 7:53 AM
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