![]() One co-worker was educated in Iran as an electrical engineer and he seems skilled and bright but his lack of commonsense when it comes to driving is frightening, another co-worker consistently has very good problem solving ideas but can barely read, the best and brightest plumber I’ve worked with believes in all sorts of wackadoodle conspiracy theories, my wife and my brother both have college educations but neither seem much brighter than many who lack those educations. I took an IQ test in my early 20’s which showed that I have a pretty much spot on completely average IQ, and since than how long it takes me to learn new things has slowed down considerably so I would guess that I’m less intelligent than in my youth, but I have little memory of encountering anyone who’s impressed me with their intelligence enough for me to regard them as much smarter than me. That’s interesting, and doesn’t match my experience. People like that just seem to see the world in a different way, recognizing and integrating patterns and concepts that my relatively feeble mind is just unable to rise above….” Elon Musk, possibly JBP) who are clearly another standard deviation or two above me. a former boss, a friend I had briefly), or observed them (e.g. I took a proper IQ test at about age 9 and scored something like 127, and I would say on a day to day basis I feel like I’m indeed about two standard deviations more intelligent than most of the people I meet out in the world.īut I’ve definitely met a good amount of people (e.g. When people have intelligence like that, it’s usually immediately obvious. If I had never taken it outside of our matches I would have perpetually felt that they were both just naturally better chess players or without realizing that they both had more experience than I did.ĭomain expertise can really make a person seem superior/inferior, add in some selection bias- you generally tend to know or feel a person is very smart the more successful they are, and I can see how we might be a lot worse at judging intelligence than we think we ought to Well Once I pushed them in a game or two they would get a bit better and the gap would widen again. ![]() Part of what happened was simply that when we were playing only each other I couldn’t see much improvement because they were improving as well. This happened again in a similar way with another friend later a few years later. I spent a few weeks practicing what probably amounted to an hour a day and I suddenly beat him 2-3 times in a row (we stopped being roommates shortly thereafter). I had a roommate that I played chess against occasionally and he would mop the floor with me. ![]() I don’t know anymore, maybe I’m not smart enough but I feel a lot more intelligence is situational than I used to think, certainly perception of intelligence.
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