How would you rate your own IQ?
 

Poll on the way.

There's smarter people than James Blonde.

Based on the amount of idiots I come across in everyday life I'd like to think I'm at least slightly above average... I'd hope so anyway.

well one doesnt like to blw ones own trumpet but i am above average.

I went with 8, but this is well said indeed.

10
i'm pure brainey me.

1
brainwashed today

where's the zero?

Modesty has made me go for 8, but I should probably have gone higher.

i voted nine, cause I'm a proud bastard today.

Wow, so many 8's.

Terrible spatial awareness, just like a woman. Otherwise, fine thanks.

Only a dumby compares/evaluates their intelligence.

Not that high probably ... I'm rather interested in talking to people, who were good at history and not necessarily in maths anyway. But who am I telling this anyway?

Do you mean the ability to be funny, or the type of funny? A very unintelligent person may find the humour of an intelligent person non-existent but find the humour of his equally unintelligent friend hilarious. And vice versa.

We all have it within us to be funny, but the quality of the humour depends on the audience.

dont they say that scarcasm is the lowest form of wit?

i know plenty of people who are very intelligent and find virtually nothing funny.

I would say that the higher the intelligence of a person the wider the range of humour he or she will be able to recognise, but quite possibly the lower the range of humour that he or she will actually be amused by. For instance, I consider myself intelligent and able to recognise fairly subtle humour that a less intelligent person may miss and take literally, but there is alot of humour that I can recognise as being supposed to be funny, but I do not find it funny myself (e.g. many sitcoms).

There are also cultural differences involved too, not only in terms of cultural references but also in the way that a remark might be understood. Something that a European might say might be taken as humourous by another European but totally missed by an American, and again vice-versa. That is something that I see happening quite a lot on this board.

if the crystal maze ever made a comeback you would be a great contestant sonicl.

I have a feeling you're responding to a post that I've deleted, aren't you? But thank you anyway.

modesty is ok, but false modesty is quite lame. therefore i shamelessly gave myself high marks.

I agree with yr statement there, sonicl. I consider myself fairly intelligent, and I have a wider ability to recognize what is plainly supposed to be funny.. but most of what I see that is recognized as "humour," is more "incredibly stupid" to me. (Like grade nine drama kids).

you all give yerselves waaaay too much credit.

haha I fucking loved that show

I've got a high IQ, I had high SAT scores, did well in school. Of course that doesn't prevent me from being stupid a bunch of other ways. I blame that on my mental illness.

At my school, all the so called intelligent people, well, the people who exceeded in a certain subject therefore giving the teachers hard-ons, had terrible social skills.

i used to be like that, until i discovered alcohol :p

(catastrophes ensued, and i had to break free from the liquor demon, but not before i lost some i.q. points to neuronal death.)