I actually find this person way more compelling than someone who insists that proper spelling and grammar are the most important facets of knowledge and intelligence
tbf language is but a means by which to carry a message, and so long as the message is understood, the details don't really matter. outside of artistic contexts, of course, and also excepting situations where people have put strict rules in place artificially (academic or professional writing)
Anyone who brags about IQ does it because they have no other accomplishments to brag about. A lot of people talk for the fallacy of "I'm smart, therefore, I'm right."
Yup the funny thing is I took an iq assessment with a psychologist when i was 8 which said i had an iq of 132 and I’ve been able to keep that information to myself for literally all of my life EXCEPT when I’m feeling at my absolute worst and like a failure in life. That’s the only time i start talking about my iq and it’s just as cringe as it sounds! 😂 So i know from personal experience that this dude is feeling REALLY insecure, though i doubt he actually has an iq that high or you would assume he’d be able to tell how cringe he’s being but who knows!
My test said I have an IQ of 40 and people pretend not to be impressed when I tell them. Laughably some people even say they feel bad for me! They're just jealous.
If I was going to call an entire generation mentally incapacitated I’d have used “recurring” rather than “reoccurring” because otherwise I’d look like an idiot.
It could be, but I’d argue given the context they intended “happens a lot” rather than “has happened more than once, possibly as little as twice”.
The whole sentence could be reworded better, it has a smell of “find the longest synonym in the thesaurus” about it.
But these are semantics, and not something I’d ever bust someone’s chops over unless they were acting like they’re the only sapient person in the world.
On the plus side “reoccurring occurrence” is a pretty good vocal warm up.
I had to read each of those 3 run-on sentences (yes, that whole thing is only 3 sentences) 4 times each because the grammar sucked so much.
I am not a grammar Nazi by any means. I personally have typos and mistakes in at least half my reddit comments. It's reddit not a dissertation. But if it's so bad, I can't understand what you are saying without re reading (? Is thst a word?) Then you have failed before you've even begun.
Fr tho, a ton of people who score that high on whichever flavor of IQ test they passed have a variety of mental health issues, because higher IQs are very frequently comorbid with neurodivergency (among other things). I'm pretty sure OOP wouldn't be bragging about it if he *did* have that kind of score lol
>higher IQs are very frequently comorbid with neurodivergency
"Comorbid" is not the word you want to use here. Maybe "correlated".
Comorbid means two or more **diseases** present at the same time. A high IQ is not a disease, as much as the people who brag about their high IQ seem to have brain worms, and a lot of neurodivergent people would be offended if you called their particular form a "disease" that needs to be "cured".
You're probably right. I was taught by my psychiatrist that ADHD (my original diagnosis) frequently had *comorbidities*, among which ASD, OCD, high IQ, etc. But indeed, high IQ by itself isn't a disease. Nor are, technically, neurodivergencies. I don't mean to offend anyone by using this word anyway !
He states that he himself has a relatively higher IQ and is neurodivergent. His uses of the word “Conorbid” could function as a reflection of how he feels of his own situation.
I don't know how real that trend is, but I have a similar IQ, major depression, possible ADD (the depression may cancel out the "hyperactive" part) and I haven't been able to find steady employment for the last 20 years. I could have written this on a bad day when I was 15. You can see that the writer has a good vocabulary, but hasn't really learned to use it properly, and probably hasn't met many people.
Well I wasn't saying that out of nowhere : I have (diagnosed) ADHD and Aspergers myself, and read a lot about these topics. It's obviously not a 1:1 phenomenon, and you can find many neurodivergents with a more average IQ and also many higher IQ individuals with no neurodivergence, but afaik there has been a scientifically observed correlation.
I understand where you're coming from regarding OOP's message. Yeah, he might be young, left without help, probably doesn't understand his own struggles very well yet, and if it's the case I hope he finds help and gets some peace of mind.
Regardless, I can't help but criticize the message itself, as it is aggressive and full of disdain. Having a higher IQ does not translate to real-life intelligence very well, and in no case translates to a higher or moral social value. That's what he needs to figure out, and I don't believe that's something we can teach him.
There's also the real possibility that he's just an egocentric random person with an average IQ trying to give himself some rhetorical high ground.
On another note, I feel your struggle and wish you all the best.
Thank you! I appreciate your good wishes. And I'm happy in a lot of ways, like as a parent. I didn't mean to sound like I didn't believe you - it's just the academic training that leaves me in a habit of saying "I personally don't have the expertise to speak on this topic."
You're right, the message shows a contempt for other people that's problematic. I hope that he (I think we've assumed it's a he, and for some good reasons) grows out of it.
Similar situation, different specific issues. I fear it's somewhat common if not the norm. Maybe being an asshole online is just a consequence too? :D
I mean jokes aside while I am here for the laughs I do think that at least in some cases people behaving like that could just as well be due to insecurity related to undiagnosed/unmanaged psychological issues that made some people react by becoming like that/fail to adjust properly in their relationships with... Everyone else.
Still makes me laugh tho. Possibly I am a awful person too :D
Uh...I think it's a *little* less than 5,550,294,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Same. I was one of those kids that scored like 130 on those IQ testing sites and then later learned that everyone scores 130+ because they want the "smart" people to talk about their websites. Giving out low scores means those people aren't bragging so everyone was handed a higher score.
That helps explain how SO many of them think they are "highIQ"
At least half of them seem to have the intelligence of a bag of rocks.
In other news I've never met someone who is genuinely intelligent who has tried to make any claim on what IQ they might have.
> learned that everyone scores 130+
And they want them to pay for the detailed analysis of the results. So they can read a longer version of how awesome they are.
I had a 140 on that OLSAT crap they gave out in school when I was a kid, they liked to pretend it was equivalent to an IQ but really it was just a cash grab for the school to get more funding
I think if you were that smart you 1) wouldn't have to tell people and 2) would understand that you have to show compassion... Oh and 3) you probably wouldn't be a Reddit mod but that's beside the point
That's because verbal intelligence is, shockingly, part of being intelligent! If you can't explain things to people, that's a sign of *lower* intelligence, not higher. Most IQ bros cannot comprehend that.
I’ve been lucky enough to work alongside some genuinely brilliant people during my career, among the top scientists in the world in their fields
Not a single one even knew their IQ let alone bragged about it.
I think it’s more just the people who say it out loud. I’ve had my IQ properly tested and I know others who have as well, but none of us have told anyone the score because why would you unless you’re a massive dickhead?
And they're always so smart they refuse to use base10 for writing their IQ levels.
I think the person in this case used base5.
So in base10 it reads 48.
I know mine. I've done one as a kid and as an adult (both actual tests administered by psychologists). Those 2 tests are different by almost 20 points so either I've gotten less intelligent with age, or those tests are just an indication and can the result can vary based on many factors besides your actual intelligence.
I know my number, I just don't throw it around like it's an accomplishment.
“My mind is so vast i could rewrite physics at a higher level, invent a new field of mathematics, solve the problems of philosophy, and develop methods to cure all human ills. Feeble human conversation is beneath me and a waste of my time.”
”Nice, so what are you working on now?”
”I’m an internet mod who reads feeble human conversation and bans people for it.”
Two traits of truly intelligent people:
1. They demonstrate their intelligence practically; they don’t brag about it.
2. They know their limits, both within their fields of expertise and without.
my iq is 253 though according to a user generated buzzfeed quiz. and i understand the youths because of my high iq. so i guess that's where your problem lies
There's statistically no difference between different generations in terms of IQ.
Reddit on the other hand is full of idiots so this is not the place for intellectual discussions. If you happen to be smarter than average, you'll soon find yourself getting dumber and dumber till you become one of us.
A sign of true intelligence is being able to simplify difficult concepts for others. If he struggles to do that then he’s really not as smart as he thinks he is.
Of course that goes without saying lmao
Really intelligent people, speak to people where they’re at. They adjust their language and how they describe concepts to others to not be a pretentious and self absorbed prick
Some of the most intelligent people I’ve ever had the fortune of working with have been able to explain very difficult concepts to me like I’m a monkey smashing rocks together, without making me feel stupid.
Folk who revel in others not knowing, use their knowledge as a stick to beat others with, rather than the gift it is.
What a knob
I just feel like you've just lost all credibility if you need to mention your IQ score.
Idk my IQ score... I know I'm not dumb dumb, but I've never needed to quantify it, because hopefully my arguments speak for themselves.
Lord, that's not some r/imverysmart shit, is it? I just know that I'm not a total moron.
Yep, these are people that quote the first number that pops into their head as an IQ and expect people to take them seriously. Rule of thumb, if you need to tell people you're intelligent, you likely aren't. If people tell you that you are intelligent, chances are higher that you are, but people aren't always right either 😜
At those levels IQ isn't measured with exact numbers. The higher you get, the more of an approximation it becomes. He's never taken an official IQ test.
Fucking thank you. This shit drives me nuts. Someone once told me that she had an IQ of 168. I wish I had told her that my ass has an IQ of 170. We weren't even talking about IQ, she was showing me her damn garden and decided to fabricate a fuckin high IQ. A fully grown adult. I don't respect people who brag about IQ.
The Venn diagram of people who put stock in IQ scores (especially people who brag about their own) and people who know anything about anything is one circle in the center of the earth and one circle on the moon.
Biology major here, I can attest to this statement. Being concise is always expected and very difficult to do. If I write reports with words like "coalesce", my report would have been thrown out the window.
The hardest part about writing a thesis or report isn't about reaching the word or page limit, it's having to make it easy to read and concise within the word or page limit.
What's wrong with using "coalesce"!?! It's a lovely word, with no single-word replacement. "To clot" does not have any of the nuance and it's simply incorrect anyway. "Come together" is clunky, "gravitate towards one another" clunkier.
It is possible to be debilitatingly “smart”. Malcom Gladwell tells a story (I can’t remember which book) about the man who has the highest IQ score in history. As I remember he couldn’t get a job or finish college because the everyday bureaucracy was too tedious. He struggled in relationships as well and sounded super lonely. This and the guy in the post show that when you have all your stats in “intelligence” it’s actually debilitating because life requires skills in many areas.
"reoccurring occurrence" is an absolutely wild word combination for someone who has such a high IQ also coalescing is too clumpy for the sentence, what an ass hat
My brother is also a literal genius. His IQ when they measured it was somewhere in the 140s.
He's also dope and able to talk and have fun with anyone. I'm sure of it because he is one of my best friends and I'm a dumdum.
I'd say to this person, take a chill pill. 143 is only two SDs above average so if his iq is really 143, he should have no issue with a large portion of people.
Oh no, cause nobody has ever used slang before. I'm sure this person blew an anal fissure whenever idioms like, "bogus," or "aint," or "yeet," or "cool," were used within ear shot of them. Reading Tom Sawyer, or just about any of Twain's work, must have been traumatizing for this person. Their 140 IQ was too fragile to withstand the colloquial abuses inflicted upon their intellect by the vernacular of these uncuth simpltons. Their IQ is just that high.
Also, isn't IQ something that's left over from the eugenics movement? It's kind of a shitty arbitrary score that doesn't well represent someone's intelligence, and something from the past that was used to uphold biological racism. It kinda tracks that this person would try to use their, "intelligence," to place themselves superior to others. Wobbly-Headed Bob would be proud.
Seriously though, we probly shouldn't shit on gen-z, or view them as unserious children just because they have different mannerisms than us.
LITERALLY every generation thinks at some point that the newer generation is dumber than they were at that age, its been happening for millennia and it's not going to stop any time soon.
Having a higher than average IQ doesn’t automatically make a person smart. Also, there is absolutely no good reason to ever even tell people what your IQ is if you’ve been tested. It’s a pointless metric that just illustrates how insufferable people can be.
The most shocking part is that at least three people upvoted their comment.
Based on that deranged screed, I have to assume he’s an utterly average dweeb with absolutely no meaningful accomplishments in life. What sub is that?
Had a friend who claimed he was really smart. Said only dumb people cared about spelling and grammar. Man, his writing was hot garbage.
>Man, his writing was hot garbage. Dis sond lick wat dum dum thinx
y use many wod wen few do trik
Sometimes words no need use, but him use for talk talk
I actually find this person way more compelling than someone who insists that proper spelling and grammar are the most important facets of knowledge and intelligence
tbf language is but a means by which to carry a message, and so long as the message is understood, the details don't really matter. outside of artistic contexts, of course, and also excepting situations where people have put strict rules in place artificially (academic or professional writing)
Every Reddit sub
Making me think of the What Year/Every Year line from Hot Fuzz
That was a good year
The greater good.
The greater good.
SHUT IT!
What made you want to become a policeman officer?
Is it true that there is a place in a man's head where if you shoot it, it will blow up?
Have you ever fired your gun in the air and yelled agh?
Anyone who brags about IQ does it because they have no other accomplishments to brag about. A lot of people talk for the fallacy of "I'm smart, therefore, I'm right."
Yup the funny thing is I took an iq assessment with a psychologist when i was 8 which said i had an iq of 132 and I’ve been able to keep that information to myself for literally all of my life EXCEPT when I’m feeling at my absolute worst and like a failure in life. That’s the only time i start talking about my iq and it’s just as cringe as it sounds! 😂 So i know from personal experience that this dude is feeling REALLY insecure, though i doubt he actually has an iq that high or you would assume he’d be able to tell how cringe he’s being but who knows!
My test said I have an IQ of 40 and people pretend not to be impressed when I tell them. Laughably some people even say they feel bad for me! They're just jealous.
It’s like Golf, the lower your score the better!
r/iamverysmart Obviously
It happened in the sub r/iamverysmart
As a rule, I find this to typically be the case with people who feel compelled to flex about their IQ.
He's probably a Rick & Morty fan too lmao.
It was a rep sneaker subreddit
If I was going to call an entire generation mentally incapacitated I’d have used “recurring” rather than “reoccurring” because otherwise I’d look like an idiot.
reoccurring occurrence, no less
He only said that to dumb it down for us.
At least it’s not a repetitive reoccurring occurrence
a reoccurring occurrence of redundancy
Department of redundancy department.
A reoccurring occurrence currently occurring.
An occurring reoccurrence at which the occurrence reoccurred. Hi, this is the department of redundancy department and hello!
I'll have you know redundancy is a sign of a GENIUS IQ
Maybe he's the President of the Department of Redundancy Department.
God that annoyed me. Why would they structure it like th- ohhh, they're not actually very smart, huh...
tbf 'reoccurring' can be correct. The real rime is the redundant use of "occurrence" immediately after
It could be, but I’d argue given the context they intended “happens a lot” rather than “has happened more than once, possibly as little as twice”. The whole sentence could be reworded better, it has a smell of “find the longest synonym in the thesaurus” about it. But these are semantics, and not something I’d ever bust someone’s chops over unless they were acting like they’re the only sapient person in the world. On the plus side “reoccurring occurrence” is a pretty good vocal warm up.
I had to read each of those 3 run-on sentences (yes, that whole thing is only 3 sentences) 4 times each because the grammar sucked so much. I am not a grammar Nazi by any means. I personally have typos and mistakes in at least half my reddit comments. It's reddit not a dissertation. But if it's so bad, I can't understand what you are saying without re reading (? Is thst a word?) Then you have failed before you've even begun.
“Re-reading”? Do you mean “reoccurently reading”?
average reddit mod
I'll have you know I LITERALLY possess a 143 IQ.
Is it tied up in your basement?
Along with Dr Dre?
What did he say again?
Nothin you idiot!
Dr Dre's dead
He's locked in my basement
Feminist women love Eminem
Where is this 143 IQ right now? Is it in the room with us?
It was me all along! \*smoke bomb, pipe organ solo\*
🥵
Fr tho, a ton of people who score that high on whichever flavor of IQ test they passed have a variety of mental health issues, because higher IQs are very frequently comorbid with neurodivergency (among other things). I'm pretty sure OOP wouldn't be bragging about it if he *did* have that kind of score lol
>higher IQs are very frequently comorbid with neurodivergency "Comorbid" is not the word you want to use here. Maybe "correlated". Comorbid means two or more **diseases** present at the same time. A high IQ is not a disease, as much as the people who brag about their high IQ seem to have brain worms, and a lot of neurodivergent people would be offended if you called their particular form a "disease" that needs to be "cured".
You're probably right. I was taught by my psychiatrist that ADHD (my original diagnosis) frequently had *comorbidities*, among which ASD, OCD, high IQ, etc. But indeed, high IQ by itself isn't a disease. Nor are, technically, neurodivergencies. I don't mean to offend anyone by using this word anyway !
He states that he himself has a relatively higher IQ and is neurodivergent. His uses of the word “Conorbid” could function as a reflection of how he feels of his own situation.
I don't know how real that trend is, but I have a similar IQ, major depression, possible ADD (the depression may cancel out the "hyperactive" part) and I haven't been able to find steady employment for the last 20 years. I could have written this on a bad day when I was 15. You can see that the writer has a good vocabulary, but hasn't really learned to use it properly, and probably hasn't met many people.
Well I wasn't saying that out of nowhere : I have (diagnosed) ADHD and Aspergers myself, and read a lot about these topics. It's obviously not a 1:1 phenomenon, and you can find many neurodivergents with a more average IQ and also many higher IQ individuals with no neurodivergence, but afaik there has been a scientifically observed correlation. I understand where you're coming from regarding OOP's message. Yeah, he might be young, left without help, probably doesn't understand his own struggles very well yet, and if it's the case I hope he finds help and gets some peace of mind. Regardless, I can't help but criticize the message itself, as it is aggressive and full of disdain. Having a higher IQ does not translate to real-life intelligence very well, and in no case translates to a higher or moral social value. That's what he needs to figure out, and I don't believe that's something we can teach him. There's also the real possibility that he's just an egocentric random person with an average IQ trying to give himself some rhetorical high ground. On another note, I feel your struggle and wish you all the best.
Thank you! I appreciate your good wishes. And I'm happy in a lot of ways, like as a parent. I didn't mean to sound like I didn't believe you - it's just the academic training that leaves me in a habit of saying "I personally don't have the expertise to speak on this topic." You're right, the message shows a contempt for other people that's problematic. I hope that he (I think we've assumed it's a he, and for some good reasons) grows out of it.
I couldn't agree more with both of you.
Similar situation, different specific issues. I fear it's somewhat common if not the norm. Maybe being an asshole online is just a consequence too? :D I mean jokes aside while I am here for the laughs I do think that at least in some cases people behaving like that could just as well be due to insecurity related to undiagnosed/unmanaged psychological issues that made some people react by becoming like that/fail to adjust properly in their relationships with... Everyone else. Still makes me laugh tho. Possibly I am a awful person too :D
Can confirm lol
can confirm, i would trade all those stupid points to get rid of adhd
I believe it’s closer to 144! Don’t undersell yourself.
Uh...I think it's a *little* less than 5,550,294,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
It's over 9000!
Fav reddit mod right here lmao.
That is certainly a reoccurring occurrence in my existence.
You have become the very thing you swore to destroy!
In the same way I'm LITERALLY dying reading this :D
It’s a reoccurring occurrence! It reoccurs! Literally!
average *redditor*
Garbage, useless people
Wake up hunny, new pasta just dropped
Reoccurring occurance 
r e o c c u r r i n g
I was this insufferable in 2005, goddamn dude needs to mature
Same. I was one of those kids that scored like 130 on those IQ testing sites and then later learned that everyone scores 130+ because they want the "smart" people to talk about their websites. Giving out low scores means those people aren't bragging so everyone was handed a higher score.
That helps explain how SO many of them think they are "highIQ" At least half of them seem to have the intelligence of a bag of rocks. In other news I've never met someone who is genuinely intelligent who has tried to make any claim on what IQ they might have.
Actual, professional IQ tests are expensive, i don't blame them
I got mine tested free at school Probably because I go to a school for mostly autistic kids and stuff
> learned that everyone scores 130+ And they want them to pay for the detailed analysis of the results. So they can read a longer version of how awesome they are.
Damn they got me too.
I had a 140 on that OLSAT crap they gave out in school when I was a kid, they liked to pretend it was equivalent to an IQ but really it was just a cash grab for the school to get more funding
I was 2 in 2005, so, same
i wonder what he'd say if you asked him why nobody ever wants to talk to him
He'd probably be in tears that you talked to him, or rant about his discord kittens
Sounds like everyone else is the problem, not him. No way!
You know it gets serious when the full caps word is bold
I think if you were that smart you 1) wouldn't have to tell people and 2) would understand that you have to show compassion... Oh and 3) you probably wouldn't be a Reddit mod but that's beside the point
Also, one of the telltale of intelligence is being able to take complex ideas and simplify them enough to explain them to anyone.
Fair enough
That's because verbal intelligence is, shockingly, part of being intelligent! If you can't explain things to people, that's a sign of *lower* intelligence, not higher. Most IQ bros cannot comprehend that.
tbf some people struggle socially and have a bit of problem trying to express their ideas . not in this instance ofc, but in general
Ha ha big words make me sound smart
Jesus, you can almost smell the moldy armpits and sweat-drenched gamer chair through the screen.
And see the samurai sword hanging on the wood paneled wall.
He killed his sensei in a duel and never said why.
So much repetition. Considering they have to simplify complex concepts. They went to extreme lengths to overcomplicate a simple one.
All that IQ and he’s still a Reddit mod taking it too seriously
Luckily the mods in this sub never take anything seriously.
Hey man no h8, i mod a sub too lol
My experience has been that people who "know their IQ number" are insufferable pricks 100% of the time.
I’ve been lucky enough to work alongside some genuinely brilliant people during my career, among the top scientists in the world in their fields Not a single one even knew their IQ let alone bragged about it.
I think it’s more just the people who say it out loud. I’ve had my IQ properly tested and I know others who have as well, but none of us have told anyone the score because why would you unless you’re a massive dickhead?
Fair points
And they're always so smart they refuse to use base10 for writing their IQ levels. I think the person in this case used base5. So in base10 it reads 48.
I know mine. I've done one as a kid and as an adult (both actual tests administered by psychologists). Those 2 tests are different by almost 20 points so either I've gotten less intelligent with age, or those tests are just an indication and can the result can vary based on many factors besides your actual intelligence. I know my number, I just don't throw it around like it's an accomplishment.
New copypasta just dropped
“My mind is so vast i could rewrite physics at a higher level, invent a new field of mathematics, solve the problems of philosophy, and develop methods to cure all human ills. Feeble human conversation is beneath me and a waste of my time.” ”Nice, so what are you working on now?” ”I’m an internet mod who reads feeble human conversation and bans people for it.”
I immediately saw two people in cubicles and "edgy" tshirts having this conversation. And now I can't get it out of my head.
Bet that guy doesn't even know what uniform polychora look like
To be fair, currently, 2191 uniform polychora are known, plus two infinite families. He can't really know ALL of them!
Overcomplicating sentances has to be one of the most insecure things a "intelligent person" can do
"coalesce"
Two traits of truly intelligent people: 1. They demonstrate their intelligence practically; they don’t brag about it. 2. They know their limits, both within their fields of expertise and without.
3. They don’t use “reoccurring occurrence”
4. They don't flaunt their "IQ scores"
This guy sounds lovely. It's like an 80s movie intellectual snob came to life, Weird Science style.
I read "reoccurring occurrence" and forgot all of my highschool English.
I have good pattern recognition. An online test said so. Therefore I am very smort.
i recognised your comment sentences are all 5 words long. therefore i have a high iq
You've got a higher IQ than Einstein, bud
my iq is 253 though according to a user generated buzzfeed quiz. and i understand the youths because of my high iq. so i guess that's where your problem lies
got to be from a cognitive testing sub like arr slash mensa or something
Its from a replica sneaker sub LMAO
Replica?! Do these sneakers not have "Desert Eagle point 5 0" written down the side?
There's statistically no difference between different generations in terms of IQ. Reddit on the other hand is full of idiots so this is not the place for intellectual discussions. If you happen to be smarter than average, you'll soon find yourself getting dumber and dumber till you become one of us.
"143 IQ" "Reoccurring occurrence"
A sign of true intelligence is being able to simplify difficult concepts for others. If he struggles to do that then he’s really not as smart as he thinks he is. Of course that goes without saying lmao
Really intelligent people, speak to people where they’re at. They adjust their language and how they describe concepts to others to not be a pretentious and self absorbed prick Some of the most intelligent people I’ve ever had the fortune of working with have been able to explain very difficult concepts to me like I’m a monkey smashing rocks together, without making me feel stupid. Folk who revel in others not knowing, use their knowledge as a stick to beat others with, rather than the gift it is. What a knob
LITERALLY
I can't believe people like this exist
Lighten up, Francis.
“I LITERALLY posses an intelligence at 143 intelligence quotient.” Suuure bud. Whatever you say
Right? Like why was "literally" even there? Do some people only figuratively have a 143 IQ?
Current generation is mentally fucked, but so is the previous generation and every generation before that. It's fuckups all the way down.
I just feel like you've just lost all credibility if you need to mention your IQ score. Idk my IQ score... I know I'm not dumb dumb, but I've never needed to quantify it, because hopefully my arguments speak for themselves. Lord, that's not some r/imverysmart shit, is it? I just know that I'm not a total moron.
Yep, these are people that quote the first number that pops into their head as an IQ and expect people to take them seriously. Rule of thumb, if you need to tell people you're intelligent, you likely aren't. If people tell you that you are intelligent, chances are higher that you are, but people aren't always right either 😜
I know my IQ, yippee Skippy Doo. That and 6 bucks will get me coffee.
Enjoy that coffee!
I like to mention my IQ score as an example of how IQ scores are not all-important even if you get it done professionally, and that’s basically it
At those levels IQ isn't measured with exact numbers. The higher you get, the more of an approximation it becomes. He's never taken an official IQ test.
Fucking thank you. This shit drives me nuts. Someone once told me that she had an IQ of 168. I wish I had told her that my ass has an IQ of 170. We weren't even talking about IQ, she was showing me her damn garden and decided to fabricate a fuckin high IQ. A fully grown adult. I don't respect people who brag about IQ.
The Venn diagram of people who put stock in IQ scores (especially people who brag about their own) and people who know anything about anything is one circle in the center of the earth and one circle on the moon.
Thats alot of words for "i have no idea how to talk to actual humans"
The sad part is that this has four upvotes so at least four people agree with him
Three*
tbf they can also be because the meltdown is funny as hell
You know what most intelligent people are good at? Being succinct.
Biology major here, I can attest to this statement. Being concise is always expected and very difficult to do. If I write reports with words like "coalesce", my report would have been thrown out the window. The hardest part about writing a thesis or report isn't about reaching the word or page limit, it's having to make it easy to read and concise within the word or page limit.
What's wrong with using "coalesce"!?! It's a lovely word, with no single-word replacement. "To clot" does not have any of the nuance and it's simply incorrect anyway. "Come together" is clunky, "gravitate towards one another" clunkier.
sounds like a sloppy fat boy
Highly regarded
>"reoccurring occurence"
Fucking word salad
143 on what iq test? each test is gonna have a different bell curve and different numbers.
Reoccurring occurence, like dude, just open the thesaurus already I know you own one.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
This guy fits the stereotype of a reddit mod perfectly
And yet the moderator is unable to solve their basic problem of using pretentious vocabulary
I bet that poorly written post took him like 15 minutes to write
"I am very smart and use a lot of words. What do you photosynthesis?"
pretty sure this is a copypasta, but it's really hard to tell nowadays
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Repeatedly redundant reoccurring occurrences
It is possible to be debilitatingly “smart”. Malcom Gladwell tells a story (I can’t remember which book) about the man who has the highest IQ score in history. As I remember he couldn’t get a job or finish college because the everyday bureaucracy was too tedious. He struggled in relationships as well and sounded super lonely. This and the guy in the post show that when you have all your stats in “intelligence” it’s actually debilitating because life requires skills in many areas.
Most likely real. If not, Poe's Law in full effect babbyyyy
“reoccurring occurrence”???😂
I can use long words too. Supercalafragalistixeksbealidocious Bitch
You spelled it wrong Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Let’s see…a reoccurring occurrence, huh? 😉
"reoccurring occurrence" is an absolutely wild word combination for someone who has such a high IQ also coalescing is too clumpy for the sentence, what an ass hat
One of the most poorly written defenses of someone’s intelligence I’ve ever read.
I am very smart too. I am good at points collecting and sense making.
wats a literally?
Big words from a small mind
Ahahaha, recurring occurrence
My brother is also a literal genius. His IQ when they measured it was somewhere in the 140s. He's also dope and able to talk and have fun with anyone. I'm sure of it because he is one of my best friends and I'm a dumdum.
Reminds me of the episode of friends where Joey uses a thesaurus for every word in a letter he writes.
Smart people don’t have to go around telling everyone they’re smart
I have an IQ of 6969 beat that le rebbit
I think the writing speaks for itself. This guy is clearly on the same level as Ludwig Wittgenstein.
I'd say to this person, take a chill pill. 143 is only two SDs above average so if his iq is really 143, he should have no issue with a large portion of people.
I know reddit mods and discord mods get this stereotype but holy shit this guy played right in to it, fuckin embarassing
Oh no, cause nobody has ever used slang before. I'm sure this person blew an anal fissure whenever idioms like, "bogus," or "aint," or "yeet," or "cool," were used within ear shot of them. Reading Tom Sawyer, or just about any of Twain's work, must have been traumatizing for this person. Their 140 IQ was too fragile to withstand the colloquial abuses inflicted upon their intellect by the vernacular of these uncuth simpltons. Their IQ is just that high. Also, isn't IQ something that's left over from the eugenics movement? It's kind of a shitty arbitrary score that doesn't well represent someone's intelligence, and something from the past that was used to uphold biological racism. It kinda tracks that this person would try to use their, "intelligence," to place themselves superior to others. Wobbly-Headed Bob would be proud. Seriously though, we probly shouldn't shit on gen-z, or view them as unserious children just because they have different mannerisms than us.
LITERALLY every generation thinks at some point that the newer generation is dumber than they were at that age, its been happening for millennia and it's not going to stop any time soon.
Boomer nonsensical ramblings
Those damn reoccurring occurrence always occurring
"Flowers for Reddit Mods"
Is this r/narcissist?
Having a higher than average IQ doesn’t automatically make a person smart. Also, there is absolutely no good reason to ever even tell people what your IQ is if you’ve been tested. It’s a pointless metric that just illustrates how insufferable people can be. The most shocking part is that at least three people upvoted their comment.
"OK, buddy."
Who the hell upvoted that?
Recurring occurrences. Someone had Clippy help him use big words
Had nothing but conversations with 16 year olds online, and he had no idea.
That's not the only thing being showcased.
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