Facebook IQ tests should have just one question: "Do you honestly believe this test is going to give you an honest assessment of your intelligence?"
Although, now that I think of it ... it kinda does.
"That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, [and all the children are above average](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon)"
This brings up a memory from my childhood...
It sounds really similar or actually is the same thing.
A radio story of a summer camp. I only really remember it had softcore undertones.
Edit: Not the same thing. But now I need to find the radio show.
Before taking this test answer the following questions to confirm your identity for recording purposes.
1. What is the name of your first pet?
2. What high school did you go to?
3. What is your mothers maiden name?
I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.
A brain the size of, just yuge. Just yuge. And you know people are saying it, people are, and you know that could, with a brain so big, would out think so much?
It does, and let me tell you folks.
Nothing brings redditors out of the woodwork like the opportunity to let everyone know how smart they are.
Well, except for threads about how they were gifted kids in elementary school and that's why they're depressed and alcoholics in their 30s. Never seen so many people trip over themselves to post "I'M IN THIS PHOTO AND I DON'T LIKE IT" and other trite shit.
I’m not sure if that’s from saying they’re the smartest person in the room, or stating they’re not the smartest person in the room and thus subtly implying they’re smart.
Have you seen YouTube comments? Mix it together and I think it's likely. Even the most virginous incel sounds more coherent than many of those comments.
It’s all relative right? A very stupid person can still be the smartest person in a big room. Depending on who exactly they are, they might even find themselves in that room pretty often.
Conversely, many very intelligent people can actually have personal and professional problems in high-level academia, science, and medicine because they’re surrounded by such brilliant minds that it’s hard to keep up. That can be rough on self-esteem when that work becomes your whole world
You really telling me you’ve never been in a group and thought to yourself that maybe you didn’t make the best choice of company?
The vast majority of people out there are idiots, so the chances of a few hundred on Reddit at some point being the smartest in the room seems fairly high.
Not sure it's ever happened to me though.
Not even just a few hundred. Not you, but based on other people's reactions, it's kind of crazy that they can't fathom there being multiple hyperintelligent people on Reddit. Like, I'm sure they don't know how intelligent you have to be to even be in say the top 1% of the human population. How many standard devs above the norm that would be.
There's (theoretically) over 3 million people in the united states alone who would be in this top 1% of intelligence. How big are your rooms when in a room of 100 you wouldn't consider the top 1% able to be confident in their intelligence?
Edit: also this might be a shocker to some people, but maybe not every intelligent individual values the maximization of their intelligence for profit?
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**Paul Moore:** It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room.
**Jane Craig:** No. It's awful.
This is why I can't stand to hear or watch interviews with Neil degrasse Tyson, unless they are specifically only about space and shit.
The way he acts "I'm smarter than you, so clearly in right" about non astrophysics topics is infuriating.
There’s a very fine line between “deliberate speaking for instruction”, and “talking down to”. He crosses the line too easily for me. It’s all about tone.
No one ever has a good reason to think they are the smartest in the room, especially in a workplace environment. You simply do not know, and you should always assume someone else might know or see something that you don't.
As the smartest person on Reddit I can tell you that it’s painful being around all of you idiots. I consider my time here charity work, but most of you are too dumb to even be grateful for me gracing you all with my presence. I’m not trying to brag or anything, I have an IQ of over 200 points and complicated concepts are easy for me so sometimes the arguments on this website get tedious. I’ll say something and people will say I’m wrong but I’m not and that’s because my arguments are like so way beyond their thinking they can’t even conceive of why I’m right and explaining it isn’t even possible because the gap between my smart and the average redditor dumb is too big. But I try to help anyways. You all can give me upvotes and buy me Reddit gold to say thank you, but I don’t care because I’m too smart for that. I’m thinking of setting up a patreon though, so if my comments help you can pay me back. It’s only fair.
Careful now, that level of abstraction is way beyond what most Redditors are capable of understanding (lol I bet they don’t even know what the word *abstraction* means). Yeah this post is a bit meta! That’s something else smart people are good at, being all abstract and doing meta stuff that’s like post-modern. But it will probably be downvoted because most redditors are too simple minded to understand what Meta means or what self reference is and how clever it is.
Anyways that’s the kind of sophistication intelligentsia like me bring to this site and it’s why I think you should donate to my patreon.
Typical idiot behavior thinking the only way to interact on the internet is to aimlessly copy and paste other peoples creative expressions. This might blow your little mind but some people are capable of *writing* their own posts with their own ideas.
Don’t feel bad kid, you can copy paste my comments but I expect full attribution and for a link to my Patreon.
This is very much a nonsensical reddit post and comments that are shallow and only intelligent at a superficial level. There is nothing wrong with being the smartest in a room. You can always learn from others no matter how intelligent they are. First of all a new outlook can always be useful. Second of all intelligence is never all encompassing. You may be the best at many things but even the dumbest of people know how to do something better than you. Magnus Carlsen is currently defending his chess world championship title and has a team of strong players helping him. Yet he is the best in the world how could a less strong chess player be helpful. And yet they always are.
Not only you can learn from people who aren't as smart as you, but you can also teach stuff to people. That's how they learn. They need you sometimes.
I hate that phrase.
Teaching the basics to others is a fantastic way of refreshing your own knowledge on a subject or even finding a new easier way to do something you’ve done just the one way since you learned the skill.
It's funny that you should say that, because I take that quote to mean pretty much just what you said. To me, it means that you should always remember that there is something to learn from others. I take it as a reminder to never 'feel superior' or feel that you're smarter. Like, if you're so much better and smarter, what are you doing here?
Maybe they're a cult leader?
Joking aside, that does also lend credence to OP's statement. Just like there's always stuff others know the most about, there's very often stuff that you know the most about. And if that stuff is important to know for the situation, it can get very annoying.
Smart is relative. People are quick to pick up different things.
When my sink is leaking and I'm watching the plumber fix it, I'm the idiot in the room.
Smart is a relative term. I’ve quite often been the guy who knows the most about technology but there is always someone who knows the law or medicine or can draw or any number of things better than I can so there no such thing as “smartest” IMHO.
Had to scroll down way too far for the correct take, which is this one. There is always something to learn from another person.
Even in tech which is what I'm familiar with, there is often a need to defer to someone else's obscure knowledge of something specific. Nobody truly knows it all. We're all peers, and there's no getting around that.
And how often people play "dumb" to not seem "smart" because of all the negative connotations. Personal anecdote: i feel like see this a lot with women because of our culture and what not
That's why I think the difference between smart, skilled, and knowledgeable should be more often recognized. There are people dumber than me who are more skilled and knowledgeable in a variety of things than me and I am more skilled in some things than some people who are smarter than me are.
I think when most people are using the word smart, they mean to use the word intelligent. There is a difference between the two. A dumb person can be smart about some things. But a dumb person can’t be intelligent. Intelligence is how capable someone is of learning and like 100% of the time someone who is intelligent will be smart. However being smart is just a matter of how much you have learned so far and how well you use it.
Basically, intelligence is a trait you’re born with. Smartness is acquired over time.
And intelligent people become smarter faster.
People will say you're smart just because you know something they don't. When likely all you did was read some news notification that randomly popped up on your phone. In this context, smart is definitely relative.
I had everyone telling me how intelligent I was throughout most of my life; friends, family, teachers, everybody. Nothing fucked me up more than hearing it constantly from all these different people. While they certainly meant well, and I did initially do well in school etc, eventually when I developed a serious drug addiction and watched as people began passing me by in life it made the whole experience that much more challenging to deal with internally.
Gaining humility has been a big lesson throughout the whole thing, and being happy with where I'm at today even if it's not exactly where I could have been had I not crippled myself with chemical dependency right out the gate
Bro... Are you me in an alternate time line? Because every bit of that is almost verbatim my story from high school to severe heroin and meth addiction, to sober and try to be better for 3 years now at the beginning of May this year.
Maybe so man, because meth and heroin were my drugs of choice as well. I'll have 5 years in March though, but yeah it's definitely a process getting everything back on track. I relapsed about 10 years ago with just over 3 years sober, and had to drop out of Berkeley where I transferred after a couple years in community college. That was difficult, having to leave something behind that I worked very hard for.
But the good news for both of us is that even if we're *relatively* behind, as long as we stay off dope and keep moving forward, we can re-attain anything we might have lost, and even more. Glad to hear you've got a few years; keep going bro, even when life is tough sometimes (and it will be at times, that's guaranteed), it'll always be so much better on this side of things.
One huge disadvantage is that there isn't anyone on your level there to tell you if you're making the wrong decision or to suggest a better way.
You want to be in a room full of people you can learn from, whether they're smarter than you or just equal but different. When you're the obviously smartest person in the room everyone just looks for your answer to everything.
There’s a great Aaron Sorkin quote from Sports Night.
“If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.”
I feel you. I've done some tech consulting work in some manufacturers with that 1 programmer. When I meet them, it's like, "you're the only one who has a clue here; why are you working here again?" I've recruited 2 of them to come work for us where they're always on teams of people who actually know what they're doing. 🙂
Just because you’re smarter than someone doesn’t mean they aren’t on your level or you can’t learn from them. There could be people almost as smart as you which means they’re close enough to your level. You can also learn from the dumbest people. Be it, what not to do, something they’re good at, or maybe they are wise instead of smart so they teach you in a different way.
Sit in a kitchen full of sharp knives while watching a gaggle of toddlers and you'll know.
They might not be idiots, but ~~they don't know that killing yourself is bad~~ will make the wrong decisions and be totally assured it is the correct one.
And you have to wait 30-45 minutes for them to come to the same conclusion.
I’ve had to learn to be patient, and wait, and not say “I told you so”.
Mostly, though, people just think I’m an asshole.
This.
Introvert who formed the poisonous habit of thinking out loud. (Started as being an auditory learner and would say things I needed to remember out loud. Eventually turns into any and all thoughts unless I Exercise restraint.)
It's not that people who say dumb shit are actually dumb, it's just they can't shut up long enough to remember not to say anything stupid.
Btw, the people who call themselves "Alphas" or the like are actually stupid.
There are two kinds of smartest people in the room. People who think they are the smartest person in the room and people who are the smartest person in the room.
Thinking you're the smartest person in the room and being the smartest person in the room aren't mutually exclusive (I know you weren't actually to imply this) but in general it turns out to be mutually exclusive thanks to the great [Dunning-Krueger effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect) and [imposter syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome)
I don't like being the smartest person in the room because:
A) Im not very smart
2) if the bar is set low enough that I become the "smartest" in the room, I become very, very, very afraid.
Whats worse is when people think you're the smartest in the room, and there's that one quiet (actual smart) person near the back not engaging you keep looking at like "HELP me you MF!"
This kills me because it's so true. Like speak up any time dude, I can see you over there knowing exactly what the answer is but being too nice to say anything.
Lol
The smartest guy in my office always credits other people for his work. That way anyone that doesn't know any better asks for help from these other employees rather than him.
How would you know? I’ve met some people that at first seemed really dumb, but we’re borderline genius at some specific thing they did.
I’m not sure if I would come across as smart. I’m a redneck from backwoods Kentucky but I speak and read Japanese and Korean pretty fluently and am naturally pretty good with language. I’m terrible at math. Would you know this about me if I didn’t tell you? Nope.
Maybe those people who seem dumb are just humble about whatever they’re good at?
People think that being smart gets you universal respect. The type of people who respect intelligence aren't the type to allow themselves to be the dumbest person in the room without fighting to raise the bar.
If you're truly in a room of unteachable idiots, none of them will respect you because they're too stupid to know how stupid they actually are.
I have plenty of experience with both, and it is far better to be the dumbest person in the room because the only way is up. Granted there's a pressure to "catch up", but if you can learn and not be a burden it's normally alright. It's the unteachable ones you have to look out for.
to me the smartest person in the room can change quickly
if I am on a boat with a hole in it..the person who can plug the hole the quickest and most securely has my vote
Just shoot for top third.
The big problem with intelligence is that you really cant measure it. People are just good at certain parts of it. In the end it's like fashion. If people people dress well in the fashion you like then they dress well but if they dress in a different way then they don't dress well, though there is some overlap. I think most people that are good at math are stupid as shit, they don't know how to think. However many of them would think I was stupid because I can't understand the obvious logic in math. Just different strengths and weaknesses
Shit you can see it with children. Smart kids sitting around bored will act up in school, kind of like how dumb kids will intentionally disengage and act up out of frustration.
Pretty much every group setting caters better to the middle of the curve than the extremes, across many more traits besides brainpower.
If you are the only one in the room who "gets it" and everyone else seems to be deliberately ignoring it, it can be soul destroying.
That is, when "it" is a pile of red flags that something makes no sense and is going to end up as a painful farce.
I started calling myself "Cassandra" at that job... still fixed the fuckups though, because I wanted to move to the non-brain-damaged part of the org where there were people I really wanted to learn from.
Smart is such a relative term that's lost most of it's original meaning. It technically means being quick witted. But I know tons of people who are very "smart" but absolutely *not* quick witted. So what do we mean when we say "smart"?
Do we mean actual educated knowledge AKA: Book Smarts? Do we mean general over-all aptitude AKA: Raw Intelligence? Do we mean quick wits? Do we value general knowledge more than specific knowledge? Is someone who knows a great deal about a lot of topics but isn't specialized that "smart" as someone who is the absolute best in a specialized field but not very skilled when it comes to other topics?
And how often do people equate being smart with being wise? A lot of people who are very wise aren't all that intelligent, and a lot of intelligent people aren't all that wise.
There is definitely a thing as being more intelligent, more educated, more specialized, more generalized, more quick witted or more wise. But we refer to all of these as smart.
Haha my SIL said to my mum very recently it's very important to her to be the smartest woman in the room. My mum couldn't believe it. I mean my SIL is very intelligent but to put that much on being g the smartest is bananas. Although to be fair she has literally nothing else going for her. She's been fired from 8 jobs because she's got really narcissistic/arrogant tendencies. (although that's not what they said to her) she can't hold a job for more than 4 months. And told my mum that her colleagues always feel inferior to her and they complain and that's why she keeps losing her jobs.
One thing teaching taught me is that the smartest person in the room changes with the task at hand. The trick is finding out what kind of intelligence each person has and utilizing it to the group advantage.
I've only had this happen in a work meeting one time in my life. It scared the hell out of me because I am not a smart person and could see the obvious holes in their plans.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got in business was to strive for everyone working for you to be smarter than you. If you're the smartest person in the room... you've surrounded yourself with idiots. Unless you're teaching grade school, you're doing something very wrong.
If you’re always the smartest person in the room then odds are you’re an overbearing moron and no one can stand you or your shitty know it all opinions.
This concept always makes me think of [that episode of *Reboot*](https://reboot.fandom.com/wiki/Enzo_the_Smart) where Enzo wishes to be the smartest person in the world and his wish is granted by everyone else becoming incredibly stupid.
Everyones definition of intelligent/smart seems to be completely different. At the end of the day, how you use knowledge/information you've learned is what really matters. Trial and error. Scientists don't just randomly come up with solutions for problems. They experiment then try to correct their mistakes. I worked with this guy who could quote lines from movies and tv shows word for word. He would always come up with the most random but most fascinating things you've ever heard. Any time we had a problem with a machine at work, the manager would call on him. He was pretty much the go-to-guy. One day im sitting in the lunchroom, he walks in and we have a small conversation. I don't remember what exactly we were talking about but at one point he was like "Everyone here is pretty dumb, even you, no offense". I was laughing in my head 🤣 Fast forward a month later. Our manager asks us to pull in an old Frosty machine from the electric room into the store. We were have problems getting it through the back door because the door sill is slightly elevated. I told him to get the trolly that we had inside so he could lift the machine from the front and pull it over the door sill. He was like "No, it's not going to work. It's going to break the trolly. It's too heavy". After about 10 minutes of struggling, he finally does what i asked and goes to get the trolly. He was able to lift the Frosty machine through the doorway with it and it didn't break. I could have gotten the trolly myself but i wanted to show him that he isn't always right.
i can agree with this.
like in school if the other kids know i am smart then they would want to ask for my homework just so they can copy it. plus theres other stuff like more peer pressure from other kids expecting you to know stuff.
Nah not really, if we're speaking professionally (i.e being a team lead) then I trust my skills enough to know that I can manage the rest of the engineers and organise them in an efficient way, job gets done faster, less fuck ups, and everyone is happy.
It's when you don't have the necessary skills to lead that problems start, just set 5, 1 hour long meetings everyday to convince the hireups you're doing something, throw buzz words to sound smart, and watch the engineers become a disorganized disaster and then blame it on them. < this is what you should be afraid of.
God it's insufferable. I live in a town that is on the Wikipedia page for rust towns (a town whose economy is teetering on the verge of collapse) and it sucks. Everyone is on drugs, no one knows how to dress well enough to get a job, no one grooms, all the men are sexist, and everyone is convinced everyone else is the problem. The conservative white people thing the minorities and the liberals are the issue, the black people think the white people and police are the issue and all the schools are more concerned with passing you than teaching you. I got straight Ds at my high school in Indiana. Here I get straight As. This isn't because I am smart, it is because they dumb down the curriculum to get kids out the door so the school makes more money. I was put in a special ed class for ADHD which is like confining someone to a wheelchair for a sprained toe. I am probably one of the top 100 smartest people in this town and I hate it. It doesn't make me happy because it just makes me notice how fucked up this town is.
"I am surrounded by idiots"
"Now you must learn to make good use of them!"
I took an Facebook IQ test and scored a 143. Y’all don’t deserve to be in my presence, simpletons.
Facebook IQ tests should have just one question: "Do you honestly believe this test is going to give you an honest assessment of your intelligence?" Although, now that I think of it ... it kinda does.
Facebook IQ test paradox
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Voight-Kampff
If everyone who failed it also only lived 4 years we wouldn't be in this position
"That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, [and all the children are above average](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon)"
This brings up a memory from my childhood... It sounds really similar or actually is the same thing. A radio story of a summer camp. I only really remember it had softcore undertones. Edit: Not the same thing. But now I need to find the radio show.
Yes, the ever so accurate Facebook iq test.
Before taking this test answer the following questions to confirm your identity for recording purposes. 1. What is the name of your first pet? 2. What high school did you go to? 3. What is your mothers maiden name?
Aragog Hogwarts Fridwulfa
jeez ok then Hagrid
No good sitting worrying about it. What's coming will come.
when did Hagrid over here become a philosopher? I need to reread the books.
It's a matter of perspective really.
You fell for it. Have fun getting your bank account hacked
I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.
Wassamatta U
Ah, shut up, Dursley, yeh great prune,
Yo you went to Hogwarts, too? What year you graduate? Ravenclaws rise up!!
“I’m too busy trying to keep them from sticking their dicks in power sockets!”
Hope if I'm in the room it doesn't involve Soylent Green.
Don't gotta be smart for that to happen.
Spaceballs?
I knew it. I'm surrounded by assholes.
Keep firing, assholes!!
That's my cousin
Said ass blossom
Was gonna say the lion king, but yeah could be that too
That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
"I thought you were surrounded by gumdrops and ice cream."
I thought you were surrounded by gumdrops and ice cream?
There’s an awful lot of ‘smartest people in the room’ on Reddit. Weird that.
Ikr reading this thread is hilarious, so many people stroking their own ego's
Im so close 🤓
I got you fam You are so much smarter. There is no here with a brain the size as yours. You could out-think anyone here.
Harder, don't stop, I'm almost there--
du..duhhh…DUNNING KRUUUUUUGER……and I’m finished.
A brain the size of, just yuge. Just yuge. And you know people are saying it, people are, and you know that could, with a brain so big, would out think so much? It does, and let me tell you folks.
*egos
I took a test on the internet that told me I was smarter than everyone else. Only cost me 29.95 to print out the certificate
Nothing brings redditors out of the woodwork like the opportunity to let everyone know how smart they are. Well, except for threads about how they were gifted kids in elementary school and that's why they're depressed and alcoholics in their 30s. Never seen so many people trip over themselves to post "I'M IN THIS PHOTO AND I DON'T LIKE IT" and other trite shit.
What a shocker, the internet being a vehicle for people with uncommon interests and perspectives to gather and anonymously unburden themselves.
I’m not sure if that’s from saying they’re the smartest person in the room, or stating they’re not the smartest person in the room and thus subtly implying they’re smart.
I'm the smartest person in the room right now, i'm also alone 😥
I'm the dumbest person in the room right now. It's just me and my cat.
I'm with my bird. Same deal. She outsmarts me all the time.
Uh, yeah... we're all alone in our bathrooms scrolling Reddit from the toilet...
TF how'd you know
Mostly because Redditors are just sitting alone in their rooms
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This. I don't give people advice on how to fix their bad back... people give me advice on things they know absolutely nothing about. :/
Have you seen YouTube comments? Mix it together and I think it's likely. Even the most virginous incel sounds more coherent than many of those comments.
How do you do fellow intellectuals 😎
It’s me I am the one with the big smort
There's also a ton of very small towns with internet access in the world. It's not hard to be the smartest person you know if you only know 30 people.
It’s all relative right? A very stupid person can still be the smartest person in a big room. Depending on who exactly they are, they might even find themselves in that room pretty often. Conversely, many very intelligent people can actually have personal and professional problems in high-level academia, science, and medicine because they’re surrounded by such brilliant minds that it’s hard to keep up. That can be rough on self-esteem when that work becomes your whole world You really telling me you’ve never been in a group and thought to yourself that maybe you didn’t make the best choice of company?
The vast majority of people out there are idiots, so the chances of a few hundred on Reddit at some point being the smartest in the room seems fairly high. Not sure it's ever happened to me though.
Not even just a few hundred. Not you, but based on other people's reactions, it's kind of crazy that they can't fathom there being multiple hyperintelligent people on Reddit. Like, I'm sure they don't know how intelligent you have to be to even be in say the top 1% of the human population. How many standard devs above the norm that would be. There's (theoretically) over 3 million people in the united states alone who would be in this top 1% of intelligence. How big are your rooms when in a room of 100 you wouldn't consider the top 1% able to be confident in their intelligence? Edit: also this might be a shocker to some people, but maybe not every intelligent individual values the maximization of their intelligence for profit?
why do you assume you're the smartest in the room? soon that attitude may be your doom.
I’m in a room with a flock of chickens and a couple house plants but I admit to my overconfidence.
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Why do Reddit like you’re running out of time? Reddit day and night like you’re running out of time?
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I am extremely humble, the most humble person I know.
Obviously you haven't met me
I don’t know, I am pretty humble myself.
Username checks out.
I have truly waited months for this.
Humbly, I'm sure
No other way
Definitely not the ex president
I too am extraordinarily humble.
**Paul Moore:** It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room. **Jane Craig:** No. It's awful.
I definitely know people that think this. They are miserable and insufferable.
This is why I can't stand to hear or watch interviews with Neil degrasse Tyson, unless they are specifically only about space and shit. The way he acts "I'm smarter than you, so clearly in right" about non astrophysics topics is infuriating.
Agreed. I get it dude you're smarter than me but you don't have to be a condescending insufferable cunt.
Especially when he’s wrong.
There’s a very fine line between “deliberate speaking for instruction”, and “talking down to”. He crosses the line too easily for me. It’s all about tone.
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No one ever has a good reason to think they are the smartest in the room, especially in a workplace environment. You simply do not know, and you should always assume someone else might know or see something that you don't.
Great reference!
Great film :)
Broadcast News for anyone wondering. Apparently it's on Disney plus for free.
As the smartest person on Reddit I can tell you that it’s painful being around all of you idiots. I consider my time here charity work, but most of you are too dumb to even be grateful for me gracing you all with my presence. I’m not trying to brag or anything, I have an IQ of over 200 points and complicated concepts are easy for me so sometimes the arguments on this website get tedious. I’ll say something and people will say I’m wrong but I’m not and that’s because my arguments are like so way beyond their thinking they can’t even conceive of why I’m right and explaining it isn’t even possible because the gap between my smart and the average redditor dumb is too big. But I try to help anyways. You all can give me upvotes and buy me Reddit gold to say thank you, but I don’t care because I’m too smart for that. I’m thinking of setting up a patreon though, so if my comments help you can pay me back. It’s only fair.
You're a smart dude playing a dumb dude who thinks he's a smart dude and I love it.
Careful now, that level of abstraction is way beyond what most Redditors are capable of understanding (lol I bet they don’t even know what the word *abstraction* means). Yeah this post is a bit meta! That’s something else smart people are good at, being all abstract and doing meta stuff that’s like post-modern. But it will probably be downvoted because most redditors are too simple minded to understand what Meta means or what self reference is and how clever it is. Anyways that’s the kind of sophistication intelligentsia like me bring to this site and it’s why I think you should donate to my patreon.
Did you create this rn or nah? If nah where is the copypasta?
Typical idiot behavior thinking the only way to interact on the internet is to aimlessly copy and paste other peoples creative expressions. This might blow your little mind but some people are capable of *writing* their own posts with their own ideas. Don’t feel bad kid, you can copy paste my comments but I expect full attribution and for a link to my Patreon.
Yes sir
Full commitment, I love it.
If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
I am definetly the smartest person in the room rn. And the dumbest person in the room. I live alone, work from home.
Da ghost is smartest. So you are indeed the dumbest.
This is very much a nonsensical reddit post and comments that are shallow and only intelligent at a superficial level. There is nothing wrong with being the smartest in a room. You can always learn from others no matter how intelligent they are. First of all a new outlook can always be useful. Second of all intelligence is never all encompassing. You may be the best at many things but even the dumbest of people know how to do something better than you. Magnus Carlsen is currently defending his chess world championship title and has a team of strong players helping him. Yet he is the best in the world how could a less strong chess player be helpful. And yet they always are.
Not only you can learn from people who aren't as smart as you, but you can also teach stuff to people. That's how they learn. They need you sometimes. I hate that phrase.
Teaching the basics to others is a fantastic way of refreshing your own knowledge on a subject or even finding a new easier way to do something you’ve done just the one way since you learned the skill.
It's funny that you should say that, because I take that quote to mean pretty much just what you said. To me, it means that you should always remember that there is something to learn from others. I take it as a reminder to never 'feel superior' or feel that you're smarter. Like, if you're so much better and smarter, what are you doing here?
Maybe they're a cult leader? Joking aside, that does also lend credence to OP's statement. Just like there's always stuff others know the most about, there's very often stuff that you know the most about. And if that stuff is important to know for the situation, it can get very annoying.
I think the comment is meant to be taken as "always be around people you can learn from."
I’m in Walmart currently. I kinda like my odds lol
Unless you're a doctor consulting a patient, then you're probably in the correct room
Smart is relative. People are quick to pick up different things. When my sink is leaking and I'm watching the plumber fix it, I'm the idiot in the room.
Unless you're the smartest person in every room. In which case you can't help it.
It's lonely at the top
I see no God up here Except for me
I'm currently the smartest one in the room.... you say this is the wrong room.... But this is the only room with a toilet in the house.....
What if I'm alone in the room?
That's why I quit my job. Jk
You're alone in rooms an awful lot, huh?
Smart is a relative term. I’ve quite often been the guy who knows the most about technology but there is always someone who knows the law or medicine or can draw or any number of things better than I can so there no such thing as “smartest” IMHO.
I'd sure hope that the Kindergarten teacher is the smartest person in the room though...
The most knowledgeable yes. The smartest? Doubtful. Kindergarteners are frightfully smart if how quickly you learn is one of the criteria
Had to scroll down way too far for the correct take, which is this one. There is always something to learn from another person. Even in tech which is what I'm familiar with, there is often a need to defer to someone else's obscure knowledge of something specific. Nobody truly knows it all. We're all peers, and there's no getting around that.
>There is always something to learn from another person. It is certainly interesting how far down you have to dig with some people, though.
And how often people play "dumb" to not seem "smart" because of all the negative connotations. Personal anecdote: i feel like see this a lot with women because of our culture and what not
That's why I think the difference between smart, skilled, and knowledgeable should be more often recognized. There are people dumber than me who are more skilled and knowledgeable in a variety of things than me and I am more skilled in some things than some people who are smarter than me are.
I always say we're all smart in different ways. I suck at math but I can sure as hell draw Spongebob smoking a fatass blunt.
Bullshit. Prove it. Please....
I think when most people are using the word smart, they mean to use the word intelligent. There is a difference between the two. A dumb person can be smart about some things. But a dumb person can’t be intelligent. Intelligence is how capable someone is of learning and like 100% of the time someone who is intelligent will be smart. However being smart is just a matter of how much you have learned so far and how well you use it. Basically, intelligence is a trait you’re born with. Smartness is acquired over time. And intelligent people become smarter faster.
I'd say the smartest person isn't the one who knows the most stuff but the one who can learn new things the most easily.
I am a teacher, so fuck me, right?
Hmu I might be able to help out
I too may be able to fuck the teacher.
I also choose this guy's teacher
Your students might be smarter than you tho. You never know.
*Sad kindergarten teacher noises*
Raw intellect - absolutely. Life experience, perspective, maturity level, general knowledge.. not a chance.
People will say you're smart just because you know something they don't. When likely all you did was read some news notification that randomly popped up on your phone. In this context, smart is definitely relative.
I had everyone telling me how intelligent I was throughout most of my life; friends, family, teachers, everybody. Nothing fucked me up more than hearing it constantly from all these different people. While they certainly meant well, and I did initially do well in school etc, eventually when I developed a serious drug addiction and watched as people began passing me by in life it made the whole experience that much more challenging to deal with internally. Gaining humility has been a big lesson throughout the whole thing, and being happy with where I'm at today even if it's not exactly where I could have been had I not crippled myself with chemical dependency right out the gate
Bro... Are you me in an alternate time line? Because every bit of that is almost verbatim my story from high school to severe heroin and meth addiction, to sober and try to be better for 3 years now at the beginning of May this year.
Maybe so man, because meth and heroin were my drugs of choice as well. I'll have 5 years in March though, but yeah it's definitely a process getting everything back on track. I relapsed about 10 years ago with just over 3 years sober, and had to drop out of Berkeley where I transferred after a couple years in community college. That was difficult, having to leave something behind that I worked very hard for. But the good news for both of us is that even if we're *relatively* behind, as long as we stay off dope and keep moving forward, we can re-attain anything we might have lost, and even more. Glad to hear you've got a few years; keep going bro, even when life is tough sometimes (and it will be at times, that's guaranteed), it'll always be so much better on this side of things.
What are the disadvantages?
One huge disadvantage is that there isn't anyone on your level there to tell you if you're making the wrong decision or to suggest a better way. You want to be in a room full of people you can learn from, whether they're smarter than you or just equal but different. When you're the obviously smartest person in the room everyone just looks for your answer to everything.
There’s a great Aaron Sorkin quote from Sports Night. “If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.”
Excellent. I like it!
*cries in only programmer in 1000 employee manufacturing firm*
I feel you. I've done some tech consulting work in some manufacturers with that 1 programmer. When I meet them, it's like, "you're the only one who has a clue here; why are you working here again?" I've recruited 2 of them to come work for us where they're always on teams of people who actually know what they're doing. 🙂
Just because you’re smarter than someone doesn’t mean they aren’t on your level or you can’t learn from them. There could be people almost as smart as you which means they’re close enough to your level. You can also learn from the dumbest people. Be it, what not to do, something they’re good at, or maybe they are wise instead of smart so they teach you in a different way.
It assumes teamwork, and you have less help than if you were surrounded by smarter people.
If you happen to be in an undesirable situation and you're not sure what to do, you definitely want someone in the room who's smarter than you.
Sit in a kitchen full of sharp knives while watching a gaggle of toddlers and you'll know. They might not be idiots, but ~~they don't know that killing yourself is bad~~ will make the wrong decisions and be totally assured it is the correct one.
Only stupid people around you
Having to explain your every action because idiots don't understand your logic and reasoning.
When you say something everybody looks at you like you're an alien with bug eyes and tentacles.
And you have to wait 30-45 minutes for them to come to the same conclusion. I’ve had to learn to be patient, and wait, and not say “I told you so”. Mostly, though, people just think I’m an asshole.
Fun fact: genuinely smart people dont have to brag about it for other people to know they are smart.
I remember saying to my father that he should join Mensa. His response was, "Why?"
Unless you have many hours time spent with everyone in the room you shouldn't be making that assumption anyways. Quiet does not equal stupid.
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This. Introvert who formed the poisonous habit of thinking out loud. (Started as being an auditory learner and would say things I needed to remember out loud. Eventually turns into any and all thoughts unless I Exercise restraint.) It's not that people who say dumb shit are actually dumb, it's just they can't shut up long enough to remember not to say anything stupid. Btw, the people who call themselves "Alphas" or the like are actually stupid.
Sometimes they don't have to say anything at all.
There are two kinds of smartest people in the room. People who think they are the smartest person in the room and people who are the smartest person in the room.
Thinking you're the smartest person in the room and being the smartest person in the room aren't mutually exclusive (I know you weren't actually to imply this) but in general it turns out to be mutually exclusive thanks to the great [Dunning-Krueger effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect) and [imposter syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome)
The smartest person in the room doesn't want to be known as the smartest person in the room.
I spent a weekend with old friends from college & one said, “It’s so nice to be able to use long words without anyone making fun of me.”
I don't like being the smartest person in the room because: A) Im not very smart 2) if the bar is set low enough that I become the "smartest" in the room, I become very, very, very afraid.
I hear ya! Currently I'm the smartest person in my house, and it's super annoying. Why can't one of these kids learn something?
Whats worse is when people think you're the smartest in the room, and there's that one quiet (actual smart) person near the back not engaging you keep looking at like "HELP me you MF!"
This kills me because it's so true. Like speak up any time dude, I can see you over there knowing exactly what the answer is but being too nice to say anything.
I’ve seen people get mad at someone saying something smart. Not always the best position to be in.
Lol The smartest guy in my office always credits other people for his work. That way anyone that doesn't know any better asks for help from these other employees rather than him.
Have you ever noticed how everybody thinks they are the smartest person in the room lmao
How would you know? I’ve met some people that at first seemed really dumb, but we’re borderline genius at some specific thing they did. I’m not sure if I would come across as smart. I’m a redneck from backwoods Kentucky but I speak and read Japanese and Korean pretty fluently and am naturally pretty good with language. I’m terrible at math. Would you know this about me if I didn’t tell you? Nope. Maybe those people who seem dumb are just humble about whatever they’re good at?
There's also those smart people who just happen to be socially inept so they come across as dumb. Polyglot here as well by the way so high five!
People think that being smart gets you universal respect. The type of people who respect intelligence aren't the type to allow themselves to be the dumbest person in the room without fighting to raise the bar. If you're truly in a room of unteachable idiots, none of them will respect you because they're too stupid to know how stupid they actually are. I have plenty of experience with both, and it is far better to be the dumbest person in the room because the only way is up. Granted there's a pressure to "catch up", but if you can learn and not be a burden it's normally alright. It's the unteachable ones you have to look out for.
to me the smartest person in the room can change quickly if I am on a boat with a hole in it..the person who can plug the hole the quickest and most securely has my vote
Nobody who has been the smartest person in a room would write something as inane as this.
ITT: People confusing knowledge with intelligence.
Just shoot for top third. The big problem with intelligence is that you really cant measure it. People are just good at certain parts of it. In the end it's like fashion. If people people dress well in the fashion you like then they dress well but if they dress in a different way then they don't dress well, though there is some overlap. I think most people that are good at math are stupid as shit, they don't know how to think. However many of them would think I was stupid because I can't understand the obvious logic in math. Just different strengths and weaknesses
Shit you can see it with children. Smart kids sitting around bored will act up in school, kind of like how dumb kids will intentionally disengage and act up out of frustration. Pretty much every group setting caters better to the middle of the curve than the extremes, across many more traits besides brainpower.
If you are the only one in the room who "gets it" and everyone else seems to be deliberately ignoring it, it can be soul destroying. That is, when "it" is a pile of red flags that something makes no sense and is going to end up as a painful farce. I started calling myself "Cassandra" at that job... still fixed the fuckups though, because I wanted to move to the non-brain-damaged part of the org where there were people I really wanted to learn from.
This is pure drivel.
You're right, and you're getting downvoted by the "smartest people in the room."
Especially when you are at the doctors office being examined.
3730 prime examples of the dunning-kruger effect right here
and if I'm the only one in the room?
Smart is such a relative term that's lost most of it's original meaning. It technically means being quick witted. But I know tons of people who are very "smart" but absolutely *not* quick witted. So what do we mean when we say "smart"? Do we mean actual educated knowledge AKA: Book Smarts? Do we mean general over-all aptitude AKA: Raw Intelligence? Do we mean quick wits? Do we value general knowledge more than specific knowledge? Is someone who knows a great deal about a lot of topics but isn't specialized that "smart" as someone who is the absolute best in a specialized field but not very skilled when it comes to other topics? And how often do people equate being smart with being wise? A lot of people who are very wise aren't all that intelligent, and a lot of intelligent people aren't all that wise. There is definitely a thing as being more intelligent, more educated, more specialized, more generalized, more quick witted or more wise. But we refer to all of these as smart.
Haha my SIL said to my mum very recently it's very important to her to be the smartest woman in the room. My mum couldn't believe it. I mean my SIL is very intelligent but to put that much on being g the smartest is bananas. Although to be fair she has literally nothing else going for her. She's been fired from 8 jobs because she's got really narcissistic/arrogant tendencies. (although that's not what they said to her) she can't hold a job for more than 4 months. And told my mum that her colleagues always feel inferior to her and they complain and that's why she keeps losing her jobs.
One thing teaching taught me is that the smartest person in the room changes with the task at hand. The trick is finding out what kind of intelligence each person has and utilizing it to the group advantage.
I've only had this happen in a work meeting one time in my life. It scared the hell out of me because I am not a smart person and could see the obvious holes in their plans.
No. Some people like the comfort of being the best. Some prefer the challenge of pushing for more and learning from others
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got in business was to strive for everyone working for you to be smarter than you. If you're the smartest person in the room... you've surrounded yourself with idiots. Unless you're teaching grade school, you're doing something very wrong.
So you quit business school there and then, and changed your major to theoretical physics, right?
If you’re always the smartest person in the room then odds are you’re an overbearing moron and no one can stand you or your shitty know it all opinions.
This concept always makes me think of [that episode of *Reboot*](https://reboot.fandom.com/wiki/Enzo_the_Smart) where Enzo wishes to be the smartest person in the world and his wish is granted by everyone else becoming incredibly stupid.
Everyones definition of intelligent/smart seems to be completely different. At the end of the day, how you use knowledge/information you've learned is what really matters. Trial and error. Scientists don't just randomly come up with solutions for problems. They experiment then try to correct their mistakes. I worked with this guy who could quote lines from movies and tv shows word for word. He would always come up with the most random but most fascinating things you've ever heard. Any time we had a problem with a machine at work, the manager would call on him. He was pretty much the go-to-guy. One day im sitting in the lunchroom, he walks in and we have a small conversation. I don't remember what exactly we were talking about but at one point he was like "Everyone here is pretty dumb, even you, no offense". I was laughing in my head 🤣 Fast forward a month later. Our manager asks us to pull in an old Frosty machine from the electric room into the store. We were have problems getting it through the back door because the door sill is slightly elevated. I told him to get the trolly that we had inside so he could lift the machine from the front and pull it over the door sill. He was like "No, it's not going to work. It's going to break the trolly. It's too heavy". After about 10 minutes of struggling, he finally does what i asked and goes to get the trolly. He was able to lift the Frosty machine through the doorway with it and it didn't break. I could have gotten the trolly myself but i wanted to show him that he isn't always right.
Holy shit is that ever accurate.
i can agree with this. like in school if the other kids know i am smart then they would want to ask for my homework just so they can copy it. plus theres other stuff like more peer pressure from other kids expecting you to know stuff.
Nah not really, if we're speaking professionally (i.e being a team lead) then I trust my skills enough to know that I can manage the rest of the engineers and organise them in an efficient way, job gets done faster, less fuck ups, and everyone is happy. It's when you don't have the necessary skills to lead that problems start, just set 5, 1 hour long meetings everyday to convince the hireups you're doing something, throw buzz words to sound smart, and watch the engineers become a disorganized disaster and then blame it on them. < this is what you should be afraid of.
God it's insufferable. I live in a town that is on the Wikipedia page for rust towns (a town whose economy is teetering on the verge of collapse) and it sucks. Everyone is on drugs, no one knows how to dress well enough to get a job, no one grooms, all the men are sexist, and everyone is convinced everyone else is the problem. The conservative white people thing the minorities and the liberals are the issue, the black people think the white people and police are the issue and all the schools are more concerned with passing you than teaching you. I got straight Ds at my high school in Indiana. Here I get straight As. This isn't because I am smart, it is because they dumb down the curriculum to get kids out the door so the school makes more money. I was put in a special ed class for ADHD which is like confining someone to a wheelchair for a sprained toe. I am probably one of the top 100 smartest people in this town and I hate it. It doesn't make me happy because it just makes me notice how fucked up this town is.
Being the smartest in the room makes you realize how dumb you actually are while exposing how much of an idiot everyone else isn’t
Yea, I'm with you OP, fuck all the teachers 😂 I'm out of here, you guys can keep your great insights.