Do you think you are smarter than the average GameSpotter?

[QUOTE="dracula_16"]

No-- probably below average. I don't have much education.

t3hrubikscube

I appreciate that very much. You're very sweet.

No I believe I am below average overall in intelligence.sSubZerOo

From what I've gathered from your posts, you seem to be one of the more inteligent users.

I have no right to consider myself moreintelligent than any other GS user, especially ones that I've never encountered face-to-face.?enterawesome

I'm below average, so no.

I think so. Intelligence is the one area I've always been (or at least thought of myself as being) above average in.

I like my chances ^^

Not at all, I'm probably one of the less intelligent users on GS. :lol:double_decker

i don't know, a lot of people on here are some freakin nerds, i just might not be smarter than the average gamespotter

I don't think so, I KNOW SO!

Haha... the vote ratio is hilarious.

Haha... the vote ratio is hilarious.

pianist

That it is.

Probably not, but I know I am more socially active than 95% of everyone here.

awssk8er716

Based upon empirical evidence... no.

Here's my chain of reasoning:

According to the votes, the majority of Gamespotters are smarter than the average Gamespotter.

In order for this to be possible, the majority of Gamespotters must be infinitely intelligent.

Thus, the average Gamespotter is infinitely intelligent.

My mind expends a finite amount of energy and has a finite mass. Meaning that my intelligence is finite.

Therefore, I am not more intelligent than the average Gamespotter.

Based upon empirical evidence... no.

Here's my chain of reasoning:

According to the votes, the majority of Gamespotters are smarter than the average Gamespotter.

In order for this to be possible, the majority of Gamespotters must be infinitely intelligent.

Thus, the average Gamespotter is infinitely intelligent.

My mind expends a finite amount of energy and has a finite mass. Meaning that my intelligence is finite.

Therefore, I am not more intelligent than the average Gamespotter.

Barbariser

Exactly what I was thinking.

No not at all

depends were you go if your on system wars half the topics are stupid but pc hardware is a different story

Based upon empirical evidence... no.

Here's my chain of reasoning:

According to the votes, the majority of Gamespotters are smarter than the average Gamespotter.

In order for this to be possible, the majority of Gamespotters must be infinitely intelligent.

Thus, the average Gamespotter is infinitely intelligent.

My mind expends a finite amount of energy and has a finite mass. Meaning that my intelligence is finite.

Therefore, I am not more intelligent than the average Gamespotter.

Barbariser

I chose not to answer the poll, I believe I'm smarter in some subjects than many people here, but many others are smarter than me in others. Intelligence is hard to measure. I for example, am able to disect an animal and find all it's primary organs without any prior help (just because I've researched so much into it) but if I open the hood of a car and look at the engine, don't even bother asking me where the alternator is, or the piston's, or anything of the sort, I will probably break down and cry.

I remember disecting a pig in grade 12 biology...it was supposed to be two days of work, I found all my organs in the first day and got to read the next. Hahaha, also, before I cut it open, I tied two pieces of string to it's top arms (it was just a fetus, so it was very small) and made a small puppet show. Just to freak my one friend out who was my partner...she had to leave the room in grade 10 for frog disecting, and she chose me so I would do all the work (I LOVE disecting animals, and no I'm not going to be a serial killer :P) and she didn't appreciate a pig waving hello at her. :(

My biology teacher thought it was hilarious...I heard a rumour of the one kid who cut the head off and stuck it on a pencil and tried to recreate the Lord of the Flies with it. :P The joke ended when he snuck it out of class and allegedly chased a teacher around waving it.

Oh I'm sorry I dazed off for a bit. :shock:

Well, because of the fact that I am an engineer (aerospace) that is currently desiging sattellites, and hopefully within the next four or five years, I will have transitioned to rocket sicnce, I would say that most in our society would concider me to be smarter than the average anyone.

I don't really know if I would agree with this or not.

[QUOTE="enterawesome"]I have no right to consider myself moreintelligent than any other GS user, especially ones that I've never encountered face-to-face.?McJugga

[QUOTE="Barbariser"]

Based upon empirical evidence... no.

Here's my chain of reasoning:

According to the votes, the majority of Gamespotters are smarter than the average Gamespotter.

In order for this to be possible, the majority of Gamespotters must be infinitely intelligent.

Thus, the average Gamespotter is infinitely intelligent.

My mind expends a finite amount of energy and has a finite mass. Meaning that my intelligence is finite.

Therefore, I am not more intelligent than the average Gamespotter.

Bluestorm-Kalas

I chose not to answer the poll, I believe I'm smarter in some subjects than many people here, but many others are smarter than me in others. Intelligence is hard to measure. I for example, am able to disect an animal and find all it's primary organs without any prior help (just because I've researched so much into it) but if I open the hood of a car and look at the engine, don't even bother asking me where the alternator is, or the piston's, or anything of the sort, I will probably break down and cry.

I remember disecting a pig in grade 12 biology...it was supposed to be two days of work, I found all my organs in the first day and got to read the next. Hahaha, also, before I cut it open, I tied two pieces of string to it's top arms (it was just a fetus, so it was very small) and made a small puppet show. Just to freak my one friend out who was my partner...she had to leave the room in grade 10 for frog disecting, and she chose me so I would do all the work (I LOVE disecting animals, and no I'm not going to be a serial killer :P) and she didn't appreciate a pig waving hello at her. :(

My biology teacher thought it was hilarious...I heard a rumour of the one kid who cut the head off and stuck it on a pencil and tried to recreate the Lord of the Flies with it. :P The joke ended when he snuck it out of class and allegedly chased a teacher around waving it.

Oh I'm sorry I dazed off for a bit. :shock:

If the majority of people are more intelligent than the average person, then the average intelligence has to RISE so that the intellectual capacity of the average approaches or equals the intellectual capacity of the majority. Since according to the poll, the majority is more intelligent than average, BOTH values have to rise CONSTANTLY. This means that the intelligence of the majority will hit infinity... and so will the intelligence of the entirety.

The average intelligence can be calculated by dividing the intelligence of the entirety by the number of entities within the entirety. Since there are a finite number of Gamespotters, you will essentially be dividing infinity by a finite amount. Therefore, your average will also be infinity.

I don't mean to brag or anything, but I graduated high school. Almost on time too.

It all depends on the area. I bet I know more stuff about Australian Politics than 90% of Gamespotters, but I don't know jack in comparison about American Politics. I reckon I'm above average in the Commerce fields, but below average in Mathematics and Science.

Overall I voted 'no'.

[QUOTE="Bluestorm-Kalas"]

[QUOTE="Barbariser"]

Based upon empirical evidence... no.

Here's my chain of reasoning:

According to the votes, the majority of Gamespotters are smarter than the average Gamespotter.

In order for this to be possible, the majority of Gamespotters must be infinitely intelligent.

Thus, the average Gamespotter is infinitely intelligent.

My mind expends a finite amount of energy and has a finite mass. Meaning that my intelligence is finite.

Therefore, I am not more intelligent than the average Gamespotter.

Barbariser

I chose not to answer the poll, I believe I'm smarter in some subjects than many people here, but many others are smarter than me in others. Intelligence is hard to measure. I for example, am able to disect an animal and find all it's primary organs without any prior help (just because I've researched so much into it) but if I open the hood of a car and look at the engine, don't even bother asking me where the alternator is, or the piston's, or anything of the sort, I will probably break down and cry.

I remember disecting a pig in grade 12 biology...it was supposed to be two days of work, I found all my organs in the first day and got to read the next. Hahaha, also, before I cut it open, I tied two pieces of string to it's top arms (it was just a fetus, so it was very small) and made a small puppet show. Just to freak my one friend out who was my partner...she had to leave the room in grade 10 for frog disecting, and she chose me so I would do all the work (I LOVE disecting animals, and no I'm not going to be a serial killer :P) and she didn't appreciate a pig waving hello at her. :(

My biology teacher thought it was hilarious...I heard a rumour of the one kid who cut the head off and stuck it on a pencil and tried to recreate the Lord of the Flies with it. :P The joke ended when he snuck it out of class and allegedly chased a teacher around waving it.

Oh I'm sorry I dazed off for a bit. :shock:

If the majority of people are more intelligent than the average person, then the average intelligence has to RISE so that the intellectual capacity of the average approaches or equals the intellectual capacity of the majority. Since according to the poll, the majority is more intelligent than average, BOTH values have to rise CONSTANTLY. This means that the intelligence of the majority will hit infinity... and so will the intelligence of the entirety.

The average intelligence can be calculated by dividing the intelligence of the entirety by the number of entities within the entirety. Since there are a finite number of Gamespotters, you will essentially be dividing infinity by a finite amount. Therefore, your average will also be infinity.

EDIT: I'm not being snide, now I am just questioning btw.

[QUOTE="Barbariser"]

[QUOTE="Bluestorm-Kalas"] Actually...Because some people say they aren't, that would bring the average just below (but approaching!) infintely intelligent, so there is a finite level of the average intelligence. :P

I chose not to answer the poll, I believe I'm smarter in some subjects than many people here, but many others are smarter than me in others. Intelligence is hard to measure. I for example, am able to disect an animal and find all it's primary organs without any prior help (just because I've researched so much into it) but if I open the hood of a car and look at the engine, don't even bother asking me where the alternator is, or the piston's, or anything of the sort, I will probably break down and cry.

I remember disecting a pig in grade 12 biology...it was supposed to be two days of work, I found all my organs in the first day and got to read the next. Hahaha, also, before I cut it open, I tied two pieces of string to it's top arms (it was just a fetus, so it was very small) and made a small puppet show. Just to freak my one friend out who was my partner...she had to leave the room in grade 10 for frog disecting, and she chose me so I would do all the work (I LOVE disecting animals, and no I'm not going to be a serial killer :P) and she didn't appreciate a pig waving hello at her. :(

My biology teacher thought it was hilarious...I heard a rumour of the one kid who cut the head off and stuck it on a pencil and tried to recreate the Lord of the Flies with it. :P The joke ended when he snuck it out of class and allegedly chased a teacher around waving it.

Oh I'm sorry I dazed off for a bit. :shock:

Bluestorm-Kalas

If the majority of people are more intelligent than the average person, then the average intelligence has to RISE so that the intellectual capacity of the average approaches or equals the intellectual capacity of the majority. Since according to the poll, the majority is more intelligent than average, BOTH values have to rise CONSTANTLY. This means that the intelligence of the majority will hit infinity... and so will the intelligence of the entirety.

The average intelligence can be calculated by dividing the intelligence of the entirety by the number of entities within the entirety. Since there are a finite number of Gamespotters, you will essentially be dividing infinity by a finite amount. Therefore, your average will also be infinity.

EDIT: I'm not being snide, now I am just questioning btw.

Why would it assume an infinite number of posters?

[QUOTE="Bluestorm-Kalas"]

[QUOTE="Barbariser"]

If the majority of people are more intelligent than the average person, then the average intelligence has to RISE so that the intellectual capacity of the average approaches or equals the intellectual capacity of the majority. Since according to the poll, the majority is more intelligent than average, BOTH values have to rise CONSTANTLY. This means that the intelligence of the majority will hit infinity... and so will the intelligence of the entirety.

The average intelligence can be calculated by dividing the intelligence of the entirety by the number of entities within the entirety. Since there are a finite number of Gamespotters, you will essentially be dividing infinity by a finite amount. Therefore, your average will also be infinity.

Barbariser

EDIT: I'm not being snide, now I am just questioning btw.

Why would it assume an infinite number of posters?

That's assuming ego's aren't too high. Now there are many ways to refute the "infinite intelligence here" that don't need math, such as people think they are smarter than the average, but really they aren't, or not enough people below or equal to the average are voting, or anything. There are too many unkown variables to formulate an ACTUAL equation. Sorry, I misinterpreted what you first said, this is what I should have said in my first post.

but:

I see a line graph of y=mx+b. You see more of a linear to linear rational function I think. right?

To elaborate, I think the technical equation of finding the average intelligence of the poster is the sum of all intelligence of every poster, divided by "n." "n" being the number of posters. Now, it IS possible to have the majority of people be ABOVE the average, given that people who fall below the average, fall VASTLY below the average. I just see it as arithmetic mean, which we both know is affected by the extreme amounts.

That's why I thought you needed an infinite number of posters. Because the number of posters is finite, thus making it a finite amount.

No. But a lot of you are also a lot older.

You said something along the lines of if everyone thinks they are smarter than the average poster, the average intelligence has to rise to accomodate that fact. It will have to stop rising at some point because there are only so many posters. Maybe if that average intelligence is pushed UP people would no longer think they are more intelligent and thus bring the other number down, you are going as iif the two variables are directly related. I think they are inversely related. I think that people are actually unaware of how high or low the average intelligence is, and of their level of intelligence. That's just how I see it.

Bluestorm-Kalas

The poll isn't quite talking about the average intelligence of GSers - it's talking about the intelligence of the average poster, which most would also define as the most common poster. By definition the majority is the most common poster. If the majority poster is more intelligent than the average poster, then it means that the most common poster is more intelligent than the most common poster. This makes no sense if you use a finite intelligence for either.. the only value that can actually be conceived to be "greater than or equal to" itself is infinity.

I realize that I backtracked a fair bit from my second post (the one that went off mathematical rationalization), but either way the question is "are you smarter than the average guy", not "is your intelligence higher than average".

The whole logic chain is a joke on the paradoxical and mind-bursting nature of the poll results. :lol:

[QUOTE="Bluestorm-Kalas"] You said something along the lines of if everyone thinks they are smarter than the average poster, the average intelligence has to rise to accomodate that fact. It will have to stop rising at some point because there are only so many posters. Maybe if that average intelligence is pushed UP people would no longer think they are more intelligent and thus bring the other number down, you are going as iif the two variables are directly related. I think they are inversely related. I think that people are actually unaware of how high or low the average intelligence is, and of their level of intelligence. That's just how I see it.

Barbariser

The poll isn't quite talking about the average intelligence of GSers - it's talking about the intelligence of the average poster, which most would also define as the most common poster. By definition the majority is the most common poster. If the majority poster is more intelligent than the average poster, then it means that the most common poster is more intelligent than the most common poster. This makes no sense if you use a finite intelligence for either.. the only value that can actually be conceived to be "greater than or equal to" itself is infinity.

I realize that I backtracked a fair bit from my second post (the one that went off mathematical rationalization), but either way the question is "are you smarter than the average guy", not "is your intelligence higher than average".

The whole logic chain is a joke on the paradoxical and mind-bursting nature of the poll results. :lol:

While I don't fully agree with your method of interpretation, I do understand your logic now. :) It does seem kind of funny if you twist it that way. I guess I took it too literal.

Me ,not me

''looks around and points to the poster above ,it is that guy ''

Me ,not me

''looks around and points to the poster above ,it is that guy ''

pecanin

[QUOTE="pecanin"]

Me ,not me

''looks around and points to the poster above ,it is that guy ''

Bluestorm-Kalas

it is you so what did you win ?

can we share

like 50 % to you

40% to me

10% crumbs on the floor

There is no question in my mind that I'm smarter than virtually everybody on these forums, including every mod and every administrator.

Mark_the_Lie

[QUOTE="Mark_the_Lie"]

There is no question in my mind that I'm smarter than virtually everybody on these forums, including every mod and every administrator.

[QUOTE="Mark_the_Lie"]

There is no question in my mind that I'm smarter than virtually everybody on these forums, including every mod and every administrator.

Teenaged

Let's hope some mod is vindictive type :D

[QUOTE="Teenaged"]

[QUOTE="Mark_the_Lie"]

There is no question in my mind that I'm smarter than virtually everybody on these forums, including every mod and every administrator.

pecanin

Let's hope some mod is vindictive type :D

If anything I am just being sarcastic at his arrogant display of (supposed) intellectual superiority.

Let's just say the real education started in 7th grade >_> So... I've only been taught for 4 years practically.

[QUOTE="pecanin"]

[QUOTE="Teenaged"]Yeah, and you never fail to prove that............................... ..................... .................

Teenaged

Let's hope some mod is vindictive type :D

If anything I am just being sarcastic at his arrogant display of (supposed) intellectual superiority.

Noooooo not you i meant smart one :shock: