POLL: Do you believe that you are smarter than the AVERAGE person at SBR?

[gauchojake]

i have satisfied numerous females cokk-only, and no i am not from the "advantaged" sector of society

i am not "disadvantaged" to a crippling degree as I know a few are, but make no mistake I am "lower-middle class" at best

nevertheless, i have routinely been able to satisfy females cokk-only

therefore i have reason to believe that i am above average in bed as far as skills are concerned

Carper come back pal

[eaglesfan371]

Average adult 18-99 no

[JoeCool20]

Define "smart". There are many forms of intelligence.

He also needs to define the " AVERAGE person at SBR"

[Auto Donk]

Carper come back pal

all of him, or cokk-only?

[RudyRuetigger]

smart is relative

who is to say the guy making minimum wage with a happy life is dumber than the CEO making millions but not happy?

wow

i am always right

[JIBBBY]

[MaltedHopsFrenzy]

The "average" poster at SBR - NO
JohnGalt - Definitely

[dlowilly]

147-20? Something doesn't add up here

Probably about 60 delusional libtards voting they are smarter than the average poster. Confidence is usually a good thing unless it's mixed with libtard.

[JIBBBY]

Not many Lawn Mower movie men on SBR that's for sure but we try!!.. ..

[JohnGalt2341]

The "average" poster at SBR - NO
JohnGalt - Definitely

Good one. At least you admit to being below average. I think everyone would agree with you on that.

[will2survive]

Regarding every facet of gambling? No. Picking winners and basic intelligence? Yes

[JohnGalt2341]

147-20? Something doesn't add up here

Probably about 60 delusional libtards voting they are smarter than the average poster. Confidence is usually a good thing unless it's mixed with libtard.

If someone uses the term "tard" repeatedly... would they likely have below average or above average intelligence?

I believe so for two reasons
1. Retard the term Tard is taken from has been taken out of use and a acceptable term for retard is Mentally Challenged .

2. By using the term Tard it is being used in a Hostile or Bullying sequence that usually indicates a person with below average intelligence at best.

I tend to agree.

Think of the smartest people you've ever met in your entire life... how often were they using the term "tard"? If it's a lot... I strongly suspect you haven't met very many smart people.

[JIBBBY]

Can always measure a mans intellect by their linguistical skills and their mastery of the English language. By default also by capping skills, memory and most importantly posting wins ..

Not that care, now fuk off..

[gauchojake]

Unfortunately stupid people don't know that they're stupid.

[dlowilly]

I tend to agree.

Think of the smartest people you've ever met in your entire life... how often were they using the term "tard"? If it's a lot... I strongly suspect you haven't met very many smart people.

-tard isn't a word, it's a latin root meaning "late" or "slow"

Most of the English language is comprised of words which were created by combining these latin roots. "Lib-tard" does not mean the same thing as "Re-tard" any more than "acro-bat" means the same thing as "acro-phobia"

Either you are being intellectually dishonest, or you didn't know about latin roots, both of which should preclude you from making judgments about others' intelligence.

One other thing. Someone getting butthurt about a word used to refer to them doesn't mean the people using that word must be stupid or evil. Initially "liberal" was used, but that word has much too positive connotations for the actions and opinions of the people it was meant to describe.

[BigdaddyQH]

This is known as self serving bias and is increasingly more dangerous for society as our culture shifts further away from a collectivist identity to an individualistic one. Think about all the political decisions made by people who believe themselves to be vastly superior to those they're governing. I scroll through facebook sometimes and wonder how a tool created to connect people turned into a billion people all simultaneously screaming "look how awesome my life is!"

Like many here, I'm just smart enough to realize how dumb I must really be.

Good thought. The problem is that many people think they are smarter than they natually are because of a huge decrease in educational goals. I promise you that today's college graduate has about 7% less intelligence than the graduates of 5 years ago had . This has been going on since the mid 1970's. Now all the PUBLIC Educational schools of higher learning want is to get their hands on the government monies, so they graduate these idiots who cannot speak English, major in African Studies, and use every trick in the book to steal a degree. A Bachelors Degree today is totally worthless. Mark Twain once said that 6 months worth of (work) experience was worth more than 6 years of education. He was, and still is, correct. So what you get is a bunch of neo-morons graduating College. Now add in all of the numerous drop-outs, the people with a high school diploma only, and no work experience at all and what you get is a nation full of idiots like we have now. If you graduated college 10 years ago, I do not care if you were #1 in your class or #5000. I guarantee you are smarter than 75% of the idiots out there today.

[JohnGalt2341]

-tard isn't a word, it's a latin root meaning "late" or "slow"

I called it a term, not a word. And you didn't answer my question.

It's not just "tard", that just happens to be the one I see the most on SBR. Btw... I see people using Trumptard as well and I'm not excluding them. IMO... you can usually roughly tell how intelligent a person is just by the language that they use. If you see people using "tard" or "butthurt" 50 times a day, there's a pretty good chance that they're not a genius.

Btw... all of us fall victim to the Dunning Kruger effect at some level. But it's usually the people that are the dimmest that over estimate their own ability the most.

Who do you think would be more likely start a "Guaranteed Lock" type thread... a problem gambler or a professional sports handicapper?

[dlowilly]

I called it a term, not a word. And you didn't answer my question.

It's not just "tard", that just happens to be the one I see the most on SBR. Btw... I see people using Trumptard as well and I'm not excluding them. IMO... you can usually roughly tell how intelligent a person is just by the language that they use. If you see people using "tard" or "butthurt" 50 times a day, there's a pretty good chance that they're not a genius.

Btw... all of us fall victim to the Dunning Kruger effect at some level. But it's usually the people that are the dimmest that over estimate their own ability the most.

Who do you think would be more likely start a "Guaranteed Lock" type thread... a problem gambler or a professional sports handicapper?

"-tard" is neither a word nor a phrase, and your attempts to discount your adversaries when their words hurt your feelings keep falling flat.
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[dlowilly]

This isn't semantic nitpicking when I bring up the word vs. root discrepancy

Just because you associate "-tard" with a specific word ("retard") does not mean that whoever use that root likes to go around saying "retard"

In fact, if I ever use that word other than referring to it, it's very seldom. There's a reason "-tard" has negative connotations, and that's because the meaning of that root has an overall negative meaning.

[sweethook]

some minds are fake be careful

[JohnGalt2341]

[Tanko]

"The majority of people tend to over-estimate their abilities. This finding is most pronounced in those with the lowest ability."



I don't wish to turn this thread political but, I can think of 1 or 2 politicians that are suffereing from The Dunning-Krueger effect. One in particular could be the poster child for it.

[JohnGalt2341]

"The majority of people tend to over-estimate their abilities. This finding is most pronounced in those with the lowest ability."



I don't wish to turn this thread political but, I can think of 1 or 2 politicians that are suffereing from The Dunning-Krueger effect. One in particular could be the poster child for it.

Could it be?

[RudyRuetigger]

smart is relative

who is to say the guy making minimum wage with a happy life is dumber than the CEO making millions but not happy?

wow

i am always right

like i said

[Chi_archie]

SBR should take a few months and just use wonderlic test questions during the normal trivia days.

then after we get a good sample, have JJ read the results for the PT regulars

[BeatTheJerk]

8+ year old thread & I decided to vote. I voted “no”.

[Roger T. Bannon]

SBR is the opposite of Lake Wobegon. All of the posters are below average.

[King Mayan]

Yes!

[TheMetsSuck]

Yes

[JohnGalt2341]

At least 89 of you are wrong.

[PharaohUB]

I have a job where smart people pay me a lot of money to be smarter than them at their own job. So probably yes.

[BeatTheJerk]

I have a job where smart people pay me a lot of money to be smarter than them at their own job. So probably yes.

Why so vague ? Tell us what you do for the smart people of the world ?

[Sanity Check]

SBR's average IQ.

Is higher than MENSA's.

[Jayvegas420]

I dont understand the question

[hehfest]

Can always measure a mans intellect by their linguistical skills and their mastery of the English language. By default also by capping skills, memory and most importantly posting wins ..

Not that care, now fuk off..

What if less than 25% of these posters even know how to turn a wrench or fix their own car? They don't know how to fix anything, but they can write and read and code software? So, they can't fix a part on their car, but they can get straight A's on that book test they took?