| Dating Someone With A High IQ
Posted: 5/12/2008 4:25:35 PM | Ever notice someone really smart can turn something really simple into something totally complicated?
Thats because nothing is ever simple, infact the simplest things we take for granted are not even really whats going on.
We went to the moon without adding time to our physics... add time and space to the mix and you have all this M theory string theory crap and time traveling..
I agree with you life is simpler to not think, but some of us are just imaginative.
Gist! IQ has jack to do with relationships. | |
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| Dating Someone With A High IQ
Posted: 5/14/2008 1:57:13 PM |
IQ tests measure your ability to score well on IQ tests :)
That says it all. If I were really as smart as my test scores, my life wouldn't have been such a mess. I can beat the tests; I couldn't beat what life's thrown at me. | |
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Posted: 5/14/2008 6:00:29 PM | well i have and my education level isn't even high school due to the 2 learning disabilities i have...so its better for me cause i can actually understand what my SO is saying instead of being confused | |
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| Dating Someone With A High IQ
Posted: 5/14/2008 6:07:39 PM | | Your IQ is a genetic gift - but wisdom comes with true learning. While I personally find intelligence desirable, wisdom is even better. And both together??? | |
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Posted: 5/14/2008 6:23:46 PM | You can have the whole alphabet shoved up your arse half as backwards, next trip to the bath room have a look it's more than likely you have spelt some form of a word. Would you be excited, I bet you would, would you tell your friends I bet not. In other words you can pull down on the handle and your life won't change. But good for you, because you now have an IQ sore. This is a test for those that are so inclined with your high IQ's which won't mean sh###t to you because its all about common sense. | |
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Posted: 5/14/2008 6:50:59 PM | Yes, and it's essential for me.
Spent time with a mathematician/physicist, an IT systems expert, and also someone with 1st class degree in computing science.
Positives: bright, can talk about lots of different subjects, have worked in similar fields (research, computing, science), can calculate and resolve complex intellectual problems, are usually widely read, eclectic taste in music (but that is not always the case with high IQ), capable of communicating concepts and ideas.
Negatives: insensitive at times, impractical, can always catch me out in maths, not good at DIY, work in on-call jobs, obsessed with work or not interested in it, obsessed with technology and gadgets, flawless logic, like to argue every point if in a bad mood -and they are hard to beat at it! | |
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Posted: 5/14/2008 7:02:21 PM | Yes, I have. Most of the time, I am attracted to intellectuals and highly talented and creative guys. I don't know what their IQs are. But definitely, if the guy cannot carry an intelligent conversation, it is a big turn off. I don't care if he is Brad Pitt look alike. What fascinates me most nowadays is if they are handy men as well. 
In my profession, I have been associated with scientists and the like. At times, these guys with supposedly high IQ cannot handle a hammer and I have to do it myself.  | |
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Posted: 5/16/2008 4:37:43 PM | I find smart sexy. And apparently some others do to. Don't ask me to dumb down. Its insulting and impossible. And intellect does not automatically exclude someone from having common sense or heart or emotional intelligence.
Just don't put me in a box. I hate assumptions. | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 7:38:36 PM |
misplacedyankette : Intelligence is sexy. Intelligence with confidence and a lil bit of****ness is even sexier. BUT add conceit, nastiness or even lack of common sense to it....forget it.
Alwaysinthought: conceit, nastiness and lack of common sense...sounds like a womanizer! lol | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 8:04:26 PM | Don't know if he had a high IQ, but he was brilliant. One of those who attended university three year ahead of his peers. Could do complicated math problems in his head faster that I could use a calculator. Had a facility with language and logic that was sometimes to my detriment.
His smarts completely turned me on and melted me. However, he walked a fine line of brilliance and insanity. He was mentally ill, dxed bipolar (and more in my estimation). It was sad. I hung in, intoxicated, much longer than most would. Still repairing. | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 8:40:07 PM | | There aren't any women smart enough for me to want to be with who aren't also too smart to want to be with me. I tell myself this to avoid having to lower my estimation of my own intelligence down where it would be accurate. I would date the smartest of women gladly if someone smarter than me would talk her into it. There is one woman on here who is obviously a genius, she's funny as hell, and beautiful to look at. And she's been on here for some time. I want her so bad. But it is not to be, as I am but another oafish dullard far beneath her lofty view. | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 8:47:39 PM | Have never discussed IQ scores with my dates/bfs/interest really....I have dated smart guys but I don't know what their IQs are...and I am sure some of them have never taken an IQ test so don't know their IQ score either.
I don't care about your IQ so long as you are intelligent and can keep up with me. | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 9:25:32 PM |
There is one woman on here who is obviously a genius, she's funny as hell, and beautiful to look at. And she's been on here for some time. I want her so bad. But it is not to be, as I am but another oafish dullard far beneath her lofty view.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. I think you need a high dose of confidence to match your intelligence. | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 10:29:06 PM | I've dated a guy with very high IQ (accdg. to him anyways). And he made me feel so dumb and inadequate. Everything is about him and he's always right no matter what. I will never put myself in that situation again.
I'd rathter date a guy with a low IQ but knows how to treat me right and willing to enjoy life with me.
Although their are men or women with high IQ and very good lovers and family oriented too. I'm sure you'll notice it while your dating and make sure to trust your instinct. | |
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Posted: 11/15/2008 4:17:04 AM | From what I read in this thread I think I may be a rare breed of high IQ; genius level, nearly meet the Mensa requirements though I would never join a band of elitist like that. I think I have common sense, can work on just about anything with very little to no problem (though I do have to study up a bit to understand the work sometimes), and am not afraid to admit I'm completely wrong in my understanding of a problem. I do make extensive use of a spell-checker however, but oddly I almost never misspell a word when writing on paper and the computer writing isn't just typos but stupid misspellings. Not sure really about the introverted part, I can be at times but most of the time I focus on things around me and the people talking to me. But like most other geniuses, I'm plagued with horrible conversation skills unless you happen to understand something I know (which is pretty rare anyone understands me at all when I talk about stuff I know).
It's always funny when I have to take some kind of important written test, I will purposefully miss some questions I know just so people wont make me take it again (had to take my college entrance test 3 times before they believed the results).
I get criticized sometimes though for sharing entirely to much knowledge, anything I know I will teach almost anyone if they just ask, and at least summarize it when they don't ask.
I won't lie and say I'm not eccentric in any way though, there's no doubt about it, I am crazy enough to speak my honest feelings on something with little to no regard for the impact it has on others. Also tend to accept things that others have a hard time with because well I take a look at it from all sides and access what's really going on, not afraid to vocalize those acceptances either.
Dunno if I could date someone with an IQ like mine though, at least if they had the same use of it (not all high IQ people use that intellect). I'd certainly try it, but it would definitely be one helluva ride.
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Ever notice someone really smart can turn something really simple into something totally complicated?
Those are what we in the programming field call the complicates. I constantly fight my urge to do so. | |
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Posted: 11/15/2008 7:01:28 AM | | I love smart girls. They are better lovers, more creative and willing to try new things. Plus the conversation is so much better. | |
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Posted: 11/15/2008 7:29:52 AM | | I think I dated a women who seemed to be relatively above average intellect. It didn't seem much different other than learning some things you would otherwise get from reading on your own. They get easily bored and read alot. Sex seemed more meaningful and you werent thinking they were out trying to get it on with other guys. The respect factor was there. Less fun though more organized and thing involve relatively more planning. Aside from dating people who would be classified as a dork being the popular thing to go for I would really focus on what you really want. Because you'll have to life with that. | |
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Posted: 11/15/2008 11:10:18 AM | | The test i took im at 139. ADHD sux... cant stay focused worth a damn. I was dating a woman that was smart. She was in her last semester of school about to get her masters, and she would come to me for help with her school work. ( I couldnt even get through community college) So i guess it depends on what your life experiences are and how you learn. | |
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Posted: 11/16/2008 6:20:41 PM | LOL. I bring a copy of the Wonderlic intelligence test with me on every first date.
Reminds me of the movie " Diner" where the fiancee of one of the characters is forced to take a Baltimore Colts quiz before the marriage. I personally would take into consideration the entire package then sort by intelligence. | |
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Posted: 11/19/2008 9:53:06 AM | I have dated 2 people with high IQs, they were both doctors or about to be doctors. I was wrong. I was wrong. No matter what, I was wrong. What's funny is I would tell them things they've told me. I'm wrong, or I didn't have it exactly the way they said it.
I have informative friends that tell me things and inform me things in conversation. It makes it interesting and enlightening, but these two doctors were just boring. I would make a joke and they would rattle off a 2 minute explaination of something. Thus making it boring.
One of them went to a political rally to ask her congressman a serious question. The question was good, but she lost herself in a boring 5 minute intro and explaination into the question that the congressman was totally lost. | |
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Posted: 11/19/2008 12:04:04 PM | Funny post.
Don't put too much stock in IQ tests. I took the test 3 times purposely to prove a point. The first time I got 125, the second time I got 95 and the third time I got 119. It means nothing. I then once knew a guy who got 79 yet was a genius in math literally. He now teaches in the states. So are we supposed to think he is dumb? Last but not least Sharon Stone is rated as a genius...enough said. Lol. | |
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Posted: 11/20/2008 11:16:16 AM | | Why would you care ? How could you tell? If they remind you of it then THEY have self assurance issues of their own. otherwise , if they are happy then who cares about the I. Q. ? John | |
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Posted: 11/20/2008 1:49:19 PM | The IQ that pulls me in is the Interest quotient. A person of high intelligence might cultivate many interests or he might, by choice or pathology, limit his application to a small area.
I have an acquaintance who is a crew chief for several different types of race teams. He is competent, by anyone's standard, to offer an informed opinion on any aspect of motor racing vehicles. However, for him, a wide ranging conversation would touch on NASCAR, NHRA, Formula 1, CART,Sprint cars, perhaps racing boats and motorcycles. I like talking with him because, even though I have zero interest in motor sports, I like machines and he often has interesting new information. But when he starts repeating himself, I extract myself from the conversation. His interests are so constrained and they only overlap mine in that one, small field. | |
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Posted: 11/20/2008 2:05:44 PM | I have a high IQ, being a member in High IQ Society.
I never tried to pass a Mensa test.
I need to recognize that my IQ was in many situations my enemy when it came to dating situations.
I have a good education and very good social skills, never being on dorky or nerdy side of the fence.
However, my problem is that I try to read too much in situations. I try very hard to remedy that and try to trust more my instinct than my mental analysis.
Some other time I can read through other's motivations and intentions, and that is not a good thing for them if they try to manipulate or handle me.
On the other side, I noticed I get along only with certain persons... That limits my range of motion.
In consequence, I am not very happy with having a high IQ. I wish I were a little dumber and happier. | |
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