| Dating Someone With A High IQ
Posted: 3/18/2006 4:13:21 PM | Aftereight-
Thanks hon! Oh, yes, for someone who is supposed to be "wicked smaht" I really do some stupid, stupid things... | |
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| Dating Someone With A High IQ
Posted: 3/18/2006 4:13:21 PM | | aftereight, I am sure that is not the ONLY reason she dumped him. I have a feeling that was just the last straw. | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 4:16:26 PM | | I have been tested twice, and both time got very high IQ number. but like others have said I have dyslexia, can't spell worth a damn, numbers are way to funny the way i write them. I do not see how someone IQ are messures to base someone smarts on. My cousin has a normale IQ and is a very smart guy. One guy i work with scored in the 160 range and is dumber then dirt, no book smarts, no street smarts, but he can paint and play music like no one else. | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 4:16:55 PM | Remember too that our interest level in a particular subject also plays a role in what we know about it. I don't enjoy sports- I could not tell you things that almost everyone else in America knows about football or baseball. But ask me a question about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc. and I am an encyclopedia. My roommate is the opposite- he knows all the obscure facts abut sports but has no interest in investing and therefore doesn't know the basics.
Just because someone doesn't know something doesn't mean that he or she are INCAPABLE of knowing it- they just might not care! | |
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| Dating Someone With A High IQ
Posted: 3/18/2006 4:17:06 PM | I usually go for those whose IQ is about same as a half earthworm...
Seriously: IQ is a bit outdated measure. - I know two members of Mensa: one is ok, the other one is definetely not-wise. :) Dated some years ago a guy type "genious" and I felt sorry for him since he had a lot of problems with socializing with other people - and since he was aware of it he suffered :(
I would go for wisdom instead of intelligence. | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 4:19:16 PM | i don't care if they have a high IQ....but they better have a BBQ....else the steaks will just suck....
serious...numbers of any kind do not usually stand in the way of attraction for me.... | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 4:22:03 PM | This whole thread reminds me of an old episode of "Diff'rent Strokes" (yes, I am stuck in the 80's!). Anyone remember this?
Willis got a low score on an IQ test, but he told Mr. Drummand that he had never heard of a lot of the references in the questions- they were all aimed at "white folks" from a different background. So they invited the teacher over to take an IQ test that had a lot of "ghetto" references in it, and the teacher made a fool out of himself trying to pass!
It made a good point- give me a test with numerical questions, I'll ace it, but put sports or history or geography on it- I won't do well at all. Science and math are my strenghts, lucky for me most "IQ" tests I've taken were geared towards science and math.... | |
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| Dating Someone With A High IQ
Posted: 3/18/2006 4:24:11 PM |
Remember too that our interest level in a particular subject also plays a role in what we know about it. I don't enjoy sports- I could not tell you things that almost everyone else in America knows about football or baseball..
@Havana your IQ is really showing, that is SO SO true.
I don't care if they have a high IQ....but they better have a BBQ....
Ladybug that was hilarious girl  | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 4:25:38 PM | | I need at least an "average" level of intelligence... I once dated a girl who was sweet, caring, came from a rich family who LOVED me, and was one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. God as my witness, looking at her naked body was like looking at a piece of art. But she was just as dumb as a box of hammers... I had to explain everything to her, I had to use smaller words than I normally would have, I just couldn't be myself.. I tried- for 6 months... Just couldn't do it. (sigh) | |
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| Dating Someone With A High IQ
Posted: 3/18/2006 4:29:58 PM | To be honest, I couldn't date a women with a below average IQ. I just wouldn't be able to communicate with them.
Worse though, is people with bad memories. I have a very good memory for anything that's said to me, but that leads to a problem. It annoys the hell out of me someone (women or man) repeats the same story or piece of news to me more then once. It's amazing how many people do that. Obviously, they don't know or they wouldn't be doing it. I try to inject that they told me that story 2 months ago or whatever, but it happens so often from so many people that I feel really awkward and usually just let them tell me again. | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 4:32:54 PM | I don't have a set "level" of IQ at which I will date someone. That being said, if I start to wonder about their IQ- it's probably a bit too low! | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 4:35:22 PM | | I don't have a set "level" of IQ at which I will date someone. That being said, if I start to wonder about their IQ- it's probably a bit too low! | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 4:37:07 PM | @ Vorax that is SO true. I hate it when people tell me the same things over and over. It's so annoying. I'm always saying "ÿeah I know you were telling me that the other day...remember?" and they still keep telling the same old thing...arrrrgh!  | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 4:37:29 PM | | yea, my babe's in the top 3% in our country and was put in an accelerated school for the gifted. she just got math, science, languages without effort or textbooks at uni. level by grade 4. no arrogance or bragging involved, but with her looks most ppl. don't see any deeper. kindest heart i've ever met, who never lies cheats or steals and has always been there to help out anyone in need. oh yea, and the best self-deprecating sense of humour too. she's the whole cake and the icing. | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 4:41:30 PM | Is it true that people with high intelligence tend to be introvert and more depressed than an average person? Most of the scientists I had seen in university were introvert.
They see all the bad things happening in the world and can relate to them more. If you try to categorize the news anyday, most of the news is gloomy and depressing.
Do you think people who describe themself as "social butterfly" have shallow personalities? They will not know any topic in depth...  | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 4:48:58 PM |
Is it true that people with high intelligence tend to be introvert and more depressed than an average person? Most of the scientists I had seen in university were introvert.
I don't think this is necessarily true.
My son is a university honours student w/ a 160+ IQ.
He's very outgoing ,gregarious ,and popular among his schoolmates.
Mind you,he comes from a family of outgoing personalities,so,I think that has to do with upbringing to some extent. | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 4:56:00 PM | | My husband is book smart. (I am not.) He gets all the IQ questions I miss, and I get all the ones he misses. When we took the same tests and found that out. We then knew why what we have works so well. Between us we know what we are doing most of the time. | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 4:57:12 PM | what are people talking about? 130+ is a very high iq, it's on the intellectual level, the average is 100 with a standard deviation of 15, and if your iq is 130, then you're two standard devs above the population average, and therefore you'd be in the top 2.5% or something like that (i'm not trying to be a smart a*** so please don't accuse me of being one lol).
my dad is a genius when it comes to physics and maths. he's like REALLY intellectual when it comes to books and all that, and has amazing common sense and logic even for subjects he's rarely touched upon, but when it comes to life, he's terrible. he has absolutely no street smarts and it's really sad.
i don't want to have someone like my dad as a husband, but at the same time i don't want someone to be purely street smarts either and be dumb as when it comes to books. i like a combination of EVERYTHING! (as i think do most other people) | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 4:58:44 PM | IQ... realitively speaking is only a number,
Regardless of such I think the real importance is a matter of having a capacity to understand one another. because what do you actually have going if you don't ?... is that something to think about?... or is it just that simple? | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 4:59:33 PM | Is it true that people with high intelligence tend to be introvert and more depressed than an average person? Most of the scientists I had seen in university were introvert.
I agree with that, if they haven't got their other half. Atleast mine is when I am out of the picture. (Rember I married him two times.) | |
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Posted: 3/18/2006 5:00:30 PM | most "IQ" tests I've taken were geared towards science and math....
Well they have to be; this is the most practical way to measuring your problem
solving abilities. But the IQ test is not a math test per se but a problem solving measurement.
It takes into account your ability to focus on patterns and what better way than to
use numbers. | |
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