“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
― George Carlin
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2025
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This is allegedly also why true geniuses suffer. Imagine being smarter than 95% of people and being keenly aware of it.
I met this Dunning guy who told me about Keurig but Nespresso is better.
Eh, keurig doesn't seem like a great company, but they're nowhere near as bad as nestle.
I'm in my schools gifted program. That means you need an IQ in the top 10% (iirc) and tbh nobody there thinks that they're smart. Literally everyone there is a dumbass who thinks in numbers slightly more often than non gifted kids.
Also add on top the statistical likelihood to be autistic/ADHD (twice exceptional is very common btw) and it's just a normal class where those 2 or 3 kids who constantly yell/act up aren't there and on Fridays the teacher lets you make a windmill out of a paper plate, old paint brushes, and air dry clay. Last year the teacher accidentally made the finals answers all A. Tbh I'm just in it for my resume.
Ah, the good ol days.
95% is a little low for a genius.
At 95%, you are the smartest in a room of 20.
Depending on if you are talking about ordinary or extraordinary genius, depending on which measure you choose ordinary genius is in the 1 in 10k range; and extraordinary genius is 100 to 1000 times rarer 1 in a million to 1 in 10 million range.
If you are sitting in a stadium of 50k, and you are the smartest person. You are still likely not and extraordinary genius.
The people who are "keenly aware of it" always smell like they pissed on their pants zipper.
If you think genius implies good personal hygiene, I think I know which side of the graph you fall on.
Sounds like you fancy yourself a scumbag philosopher.
Definitely know where your emotional intellegence falls on the graph.
Did I ever tell you the story about [Cowboys], and [m-midgets], and the Indians and fron-frontier psychiatrist? [I-I-I felt strangely hypnotised I was in another world], a world of twenty-[twenty thousand girls]
Unfortunately, stupid people also think themselves geniuses forced to suffer fools.