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Hello all. Would you like to find more about how people think?
Well from this week foward i will create a new poll topic. All you have to do is caste your vote. You don't even have to keep checking on the topic for i will post the results next week in poll #6. Each poll will be open for 1 week.
Its pretty self explanatory, good luck!
Believe it or not these polls do tell us a lot about the mind.
Results from poll #4 When fine dining, do you use a knife and cut with your Left hand or Right? Left - 2 for 9% Right - 18 for 78% Neither - 2 for 9% Both - 1 for 4% Total - 23 for 100%
I can't translate my education into U.S. terms directly, but I left school at 17, having taken the exams normally taken at 18 a year early as I was in the fast stream. I later passed my professional exams as a company secretary (and if I still paid the annual membership fees) would be entitled to put "F.C.I.S." after my name. If you want to know about the law, and economics, and taxation and so forth, I'm yer man. Provided we're still in the 1980's and in the UK. I didn't go to university until much later, when I started a part-time history degree. This was unfortunately interrupted (for a good reason: the kids arrived). MY I.Q. tested at just above the 99th percentile, so I think I can claim to be more intelligent than most people (especially as I read that the average U.S. I.Q. now tests at 98, which indicates that they need to rewrite their tests!)
And I've just been watching "Millionaire". The contestant had to "ask the audience" on the question "which is the closest star to the Earth", despite "The Sun" being right up there. Only 80% of the audience got it right... One in five Americans do not know, apparently, that the sun is a star...
Yeah, us Americans are pretty stupid no doubt about that, but in the F.A.T. (friggen awesome test) we rank #1
jonesthecurl wrote:And I've just been watching "Millionaire". The contestant had to "ask the audience" on the question "which is the closest star to the Earth", despite "The Sun" being right up there. Only 80% of the audience got it right... One in five Americans do not know, apparently, that the sun is a star...
It is interesting though how most people so far think they are smarter than the average person. why would that be? Maybe those who have leisure time can play computer games? and there is most likely a direct correllation between intelligence and job and leisure time. I wonder i wonder.
Well, there are some factors that might come into play when asking people on CC to decide whether they think they are smarter or not than the average joe. For one as described earlier, CC takes leisure time and hard working Joes don't have leisure time to spare on CC. Also, CC can cost money and has a lot of people that can't afford it, also contributing a small portion of wealthier (which means smarter) people. Of course there are counter arguments to my claimes but in the long haul i believe people who play CC ARE smarter, not just for their Income:Intelligence ratio, but for the fact that CC takes brain power and only people with brain power (that includes Chefs) tend to be in another category than those "non-intelligent" people. IDK, somebody counter me please...
F1fth wrote:You are a bunch of average people, you dolts.
Quite the clever poll, Mr. Army. Not surprisingly, everyone thinks they're smarter than everyone else.
THE ARMY wrote:Well, there are some factors that might come into play when asking people on CC to decide whether they think they are smarter or not than the average joe. For one as described earlier, CC takes leisure time and hard working Joes don't have leisure time to spare on CC. Also, CC can cost money and has a lot of people that can't afford it, also contributing a small portion of wealthier (which means smarter) people. Of course there are counter arguments to my claimes but in the long haul i believe people who play CC ARE smarter, not just for their Income:Intelligence ratio, but for the fact that CC takes brain power and only people with brain power (that includes Chefs) tend to be in another category than those "non-intelligent" people. IDK, somebody counter me please...
F1fth wrote:You are a bunch of average people, you dolts.
Quite the clever poll, Mr. Army. Not surprisingly, everyone thinks they're smarter than everyone else.
(Can you tell I think highly of Socratic wisdom?)
Rich people are smart? Jesus, and all this time...
It’s unfortunate that most people measure intelligence by academic abilities. Good on all those that achieve academic success –it’s more necessary in today’s world than ever before, but being smart isn’t all about how book-learned you are.
My dad left school at 16 and went straight to work - despite having no family funds or support, he managed through sheer hard work, the right choices and innate business sense to build several businesses, raise a family and retire in his late thirties.
My dad is not well read and left school without qualifications of any kind - he did badly in controlled environments, I guess, but he has common sense in abundance and the will to succeed; I consider my father to be an intelligent person in the ways that count - he reads people extremely well and has achieved more than most through sheer will-power and determination. They say I am my father's daughter - I'd like to think that were even half true.
I'm 78. I received most of my knowledge in Siamese Brothel Houses and from fly-fishing excursions in Wyoming. I learned how to do the Harlem shuffle from a homeless man in San Sebastian, the first time I flew a plane was when a Colombian Coke Lord stabbed our pilot over Panama. I crash landed it into a rocky copse and found that, given the right seasoning, a human can survive off of eating seat cushions and flaming jetsam for three and a half weeks. I also learned how relentless and resilient the human spirit can be. Also, I learned all my assassin skills from a top secret Lithuanian government training base in East Timor.
I've met Jimmy Carter.
moe wrote:Matted with hair, armed to the teeth, swift as the noble beast his screen name so "lovingly" embodies.. . ..
Wielding a hot dog in one hand and a fedora in the other. . . . .
Wolffystyle wrote:I'm 78. I received most of my knowledge in Siamese Brothel Houses and from fly-fishing excursions in Wyoming. I learned how to do the Harlem shuffle from a homeless man in San Sebastian, the first time I flew a plane was when a Colombian Coke Lord stabbed our pilot over Panama. I crash landed it into a rocky copse and found that, given the right seasoning, a human can survive off of eating seat cushions and flaming jetsam for three and a half weeks. I also learned how relentless and resilient the human spirit can be. Also, I learned all my assassin skills from a top secret Lithuanian government training base in East Timor.
I've met Jimmy Carter.
That's what I'm talkin' about - you simply can't learn that stuff in school. You'd get on well with my old man.
That is def true, there are two intelligences. One is street smarts the other book smarts. For all sake we will use Street smarts since it is the natural fundamental intelligence in our lives and everyone gets pissed when people are dumb.
mandyb wrote:It’s unfortunate that most people measure intelligence by academic abilities. Good on all those that achieve academic success –it’s more necessary in today’s world than ever before, but being smart isn’t all about how book-learned you are.
My dad left school at 16 and went straight to work - despite having no family funds or support, he managed through sheer hard work, the right choices and innate business sense to build several businesses, raise a family and retire in his late thirties.
My dad is not well read and left school without qualifications of any kind - he did badly in controlled environments, I guess, but he has common sense in abundance and the will to succeed; I consider my father to be an intelligent person in the ways that count - he reads people extremely well and has achieved more than most through sheer will-power and determination. They say I am my father's daughter - I'd like to think that were even half true.
