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This smug PhD was served a slice of humble pie when she shamed an "uneducated" Marine in this IQ experiment
Not The Bee ^ | Nov 7, 2023 | Staff

Posted on 11/07/2023 9:37:38 AM PST by Red Badger

It's always nice to see smug people get a slice of humble pie, isn't it?

This is a few years old, but it went viral again over the weekend and it's a great laugh/lesson:

1 minute video at link...........

The smug PhD was SO sure of herself!

"Two, me. I don't know! PhD, cancer biology, scientist, I work in a biotech company, we make Covid-19 testing kits, stuff like that!"

Credentials ≠ intelligence!

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She was last!.......................


TOPICS: Education; History; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: iq; notthebee
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Interesting depiction of such information.

Serious lesson, never equate IQ with social status, income, education or common sense. Some of the very smartest people I have known never fit the profile or expectation.

Being too proud of yourself or too smug can be your downfall. Avoid being an educated ass.

Kipling said it well:

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

41 posted on 11/07/2023 10:51:11 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

IQ and school do not go hand in hand.


42 posted on 11/07/2023 10:54:12 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Pikachu_Dad

Probably above average.


43 posted on 11/07/2023 10:54:41 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: boycott

“...we make Covid-19 testing kits, stuff like that!”..............


44 posted on 11/07/2023 10:55:05 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Bulwyf

No, but the correlation is strong and positive. Seeing a person with a 112 IQ and a STEM Ph.D. raises suspicion for me. Basically a Jill Biden thesis.


45 posted on 11/07/2023 11:04:23 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Red Badger

I think your IQ, if you are over say 50 years old, is best indicated by the AVERAGE of all your bank balances that are reflected in your past 10 years of bank statements.

The one caveat is that those “balances” must reflect “earned” money not inherited money or money you extorted from a spouse in a divorce.

One of my wealthiest buddies, retired at 55 with millions in assets. He had a 9th grade education.


46 posted on 11/07/2023 11:04:31 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: Dr. Sivana

I’ve never taken a real IQ test, but many of my close relatives have and scored high. For kicks I and family members have taken the quickie internet IQ tests, with a few interesting take-aways:

1) They are are not completely worthless - family members who have taken the real IQ tests received somewhat similar scores on the internet tests. In other words, if you scored average, above average or genius level on the real test, your score would fall within the same broad grouping on the internet tests.

2) You have to provide your date of birth, sex, race, and level of education. I am a white male, aged 71, with a masters degree. When I entered that information honestly, and took three tests, I got an average of around 144. When I lied, saying I was African American, female, 20 years old with a high school degree, I scored an average of 152 on the same three tests.

It seems they make the interment tests easier for certain demographics - I have heard they do that on the real IQ tests as well - at least with regard to age and education level. So if you are in 10th grade you are measured against a different standard than if you are older with an advanced degree.

I think the test should be the same for everyone.


47 posted on 11/07/2023 11:09:53 AM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: Red Badger

hehehe... she will blame the test as unfair.

she was ranked 6th over all in intelligence... sweet.


48 posted on 11/07/2023 11:14:10 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Cen-Tejas

I think that more a measure of emotional intelligence rather than intellectual intelligence. Those things are not always the same. You can have average intelligence and exceed the norm financially because you’re just playing the game so to speak. It doesn’t take extraordinary intelligence to succeed in the US from a financial perspective.


49 posted on 11/07/2023 11:26:19 AM PST by jimwatx
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To: Red Badger

Love it!


50 posted on 11/07/2023 11:33:35 AM PST by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

That graph hits my opinion of people based on my experience right on the nail.


51 posted on 11/07/2023 11:35:38 AM PST by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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To: jimwatx

Trump also has the IQ.


52 posted on 11/07/2023 11:39:51 AM PST by Aria
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To: jimwatx
"I think IQ only measures certain facets of intellectual ability and doesn’t give the complete picture."

I absolutely agree with you. IQ is just one faucet of being "intelligent." In three tests over a seven year period, I scored between 138 and 141. But I have a hard time focusing and can be distracted easily and I am prone to veer off to the side when I see something that interests me. I am intellectually curious, but don't like to dig too deep. My judgement skills were pretty poor when I was young and I had to make a real effort to stay out of trouble. I did OK, but not like a high IQ would lead someone to infer.

53 posted on 11/07/2023 11:42:43 AM PST by fini
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To: Aria

No actually he doesn’t and it’s quite obvious to anyone who does. But he does have a great deal of commonsense which compensates for his lack of above average intelligence.


54 posted on 11/07/2023 11:44:31 AM PST by jimwatx
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To: TexasGator

I knew someone like that in the Air Force. He used his high IQ to find the right woman to take care of him.


55 posted on 11/07/2023 11:45:53 AM PST by JZelle
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To: TexasGator

Coincidentally, I was told my IQ was 131 in high school.
Was put in fast track classes, but skated through uninterested in anything but graduating and marrying my husband and having a family.
Twenty six years later, graduated university with a degree in computer science at 44 years old.
This was in spite of my computer science advisor and also the head of the department, instead of encouraging me, telling me that I was too old and female, so I would eventually wash out.


56 posted on 11/07/2023 11:46:00 AM PST by Blueway
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To: shotgun

+1


57 posted on 11/07/2023 11:58:29 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Rusty0604
That graph hits my opinion of people based on my experience right on the nail.

I was shocked! Shocked, I tell you! To see that education majors' average IQ was 110. I would have guessed it was a negative number.

58 posted on 11/07/2023 11:58:40 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Red Badger

Not just HS. In 4th Grade, they thought that I had a developmental disorder. Sent me to a specialist for IQ testing, among other things.

Results came back... I was smarter, by the age adjusted scores, than the PhD administering the test. Mild dyslexia was my real issue... easily corrected.

Other assessments about a high IQ being a detriment beyond a certain point are accurate. Social ineptitude and emotional issues are common.


59 posted on 11/07/2023 12:00:56 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: OftheOhio

Thank you for your service, FRiend.

I too wish you could have made it over to the school.

I am USN, but have always had a special degree of admiration for Marines.

I have always felt that anyone who made it through Parris Island or the like is going to have an advantage over those who never have, myself included.

I figure it gets you closer to knowing what is important about yourself, and what isn’t.

So...thank you.


60 posted on 11/07/2023 12:01:31 PM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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