'People who boast about their I.Q. are losers' —Stephen Hawking

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I, also, never boast. I am above that kind of behavior. More above it than you, even.

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Can’t you see the flaw in your reasoning?
You’d have to be smart for real, then.

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I believe the biggest strawman on this thread was when you wrote

There should be no shame in having a high IQ

Considering that no one has stated or implied that there is anything shameful about having a high IQ.

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You don’t see them?

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I’ve always been partial to his MC Hawking alter ego, personally. F*ck the creationists, yo.

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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is also really bad in this regard, except they get someone in your demographic to call you up and flirt for huge donations.

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I just enjoy the fact that Trump thinks education equates to I.Q.

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But none of it is desperately original. The stuff on evolution is (as best I remember) Roman Catholic doctrine, and the idea that maths can prove God etc. is pure Kurt Gödel.

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That’s how my voice sounds in real life.

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Shout out to @OhhJim for pointing out that boastful people are losers, regardless of what they are boasting about, but there is a special kind of face-palm-inducing foolishness when people boast about their IQs. I think people with high IQs who are interested in IQs don’t have much of an excuse for not understanding what and IQ does and doesn’t mean.

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You’re a dick if you boast…

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Just a question: Would “My child is an honor student at…” bumper stickers fall under the same category?

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No. Assuming the child IS an honor student, it’s simply a statement of (verifiable) fact.

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Then there’s this ex-bouncer:

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Who was it that said that people with tested high IQ’s are good at taking IQ tests (and not necessarily good at anything else)?

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I had a friend who took IQ tests for fun and practiced IQ tests. Their highest score was 163. It’s definitely a thing you can be good at independent of anything else.

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Makes sense. One strokes your ego/“brain peen”, the other your…er…well, yeah xD.

@anon50609448: Of course. But studying for tests is also a hallmark of intelligence, is it not? It may piss off statisticians, sure, but I think it’s perfectly fair.

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Speaking of boasting, we have this on our kids’ bookshelf, originally purchased when I was a toddler. (The book, not the bookshelf)

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