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65% of Americans believe they are above average in intelligence

Third world economies tend to not cost as much.

Well, call it what you want, but it's not as bad as people make it out to be. Huntsville's a great place to live. I've been back here for a little over a year.

 
Well, call it what you want, but it's not as bad as people make it out to be. Huntsville's a great place to live. I've been back here for a little over a year.

Huntsville is a jewel in the rough. I've been there and loved it. Birmingham was great too, very good energy in that city. The other cities I've been to (Montgomery, Auburn, etc) we're not impressive.
 
Huntsville is a jewel in the rough. I've been there and loved it. Birmingham was great too, very good energy in that city. The other cities I've been to (Montgomery, Auburn, etc) we're not impressive.

Yeah they are bad, but all states have good and bad in them. I love the vibe in Birmingham, too. I drive down once a month, plus I still have a house for sale about an hour outside Birmingham.
 
Yeah they are bad, but all states have good and bad in them. I love the vibe in Birmingham, too. I drive down once a month, plus I still have a house for sale about an hour outside Birmingham.
I used to live quite close to the border, but on the Georgia side. I was there all the time.
 

65% of Americans believe they are above average in intelligence: Results of two nationally representative surveys​


Abstract​

Psychologists often note that most people think they are above average in intelligence. We sought robust, contemporary evidence for this “smarter than average” effect by asking Americans in two independent samples (total N = 2,821) whether they agreed with the statement, “I am more intelligent than the average person.” After weighting each sample to match the demographics of U.S. census data, we found that 65% of Americans believe they are smarter than average, with men more likely to agree than women. However, overconfident beliefs about one’s intelligence are not always unrealistic: more educated people were more likely to think their intelligence is above average. We suggest that a tendency to overrate one’s cognitive abilities may be a stable feature of human psychology.
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Introduction​

The statement that a majority of people claim to be more intelligent than average is literally a textbook example of overconfidence and self-enhancement [16]. Here we ask whether such “intelligence overconfidence” is reliably found in large samples weighted to be nationally representative, differs by method of data collection (telephone or online), and varies according to demographic factors including sex, age, and race/ethnicity. The answers to these questions will help solidify the evidence base for popular claims in psychology and contribute to research on self-perceptions, overconfidence, and intelligence.
Most demonstrations of the “smarter than average” effect are conducted using convenience samples, a method that raises concerns about generalizability [7,8]. Some studies have improved upon convenience sampling by collecting nationally representative survey data from college [9] and high school [10] students to measure change in self-positivity and narcissism over time. However, student populations suffer the limitations of failing to represent older and less-educated people, differing from the general population in income, race/ethnicity, and sex, and potentially having difficulty imagining the “average person” outside of a university environment.

*Do you believe Americans in general are more intelligent than average?
I know where I rank among all those who have taken the ASVAB, as the results there are percentile based. I do think my success in various areas is helped by my upbringing and not my natural IQ though. I'd say that most of the people on this board are above average IQ, even if they do write the dumbest shit sometimes. I've known lots of very smart people who believe incredibly stupid things.
 
I've never done organized play, so I don't know.
I've thought about running a virtual campaign for members to practice at DMing but I'm running low on energy to get it going.
 
I've thought about running a virtual campaign for members to practice at DMing but I'm running low on energy to get it going.
I would be down for it.

I've been wanting to try a sorcadin hybrid class.
 
So do members of MENSA!

What have you heard of that is impressive from MENSA lately?

What have you heard of that is impressive from MENSA ever?
 
The statement that a majority of people claim to be more intelligent than average is literally a textbook example of overconfidence and self-enhancement

What the DK effect describes is merely that we are incapable of seeing beyond our own level of reasoning. Thus it follows that we are not truly capable of seeing that we are not as smart as we think (though we may infer it).
However, the smartest individuals, being quite capable of comprehending the reasoning of the dumbest individuals, are therefore capable of seeing that the dumb are not as smart as they think, which we then place into a context of averages and describe as an effect. And then have a good laugh about this flaw that we can see in others, but not ourselves.
 
Well of course.

My idiotic ex-sister in law in the early days of the internet posted a half-naked picture of a porn star and passed it off as her picture. People actually believed it was her, and she was like, "I don't know why so many guys are trying to talk to me!" As she batted her eyelashes.

In the early days of the internet my wife posted her regular portrait but she nicknamed herself "legs2001" and suddenly a gazillion guys on AOL-IM were all "age, sex, location?" (ASL)
She was getting so many of them she changed her name and put up a black screen for a picture!

"God I didn't realize there were so many hard-up guys out there!"
 
In the early days of the internet my wife posted her regular portrait but she nicknamed herself "legs2001" and suddenly a gazillion guys on AOL-IM were all "age, sex, location?" (ASL)
She was getting so many of them she changed her name and put up a black screen for a picture!

"God I didn't realize there were so many hard-up guys out there!"
Your wife is a stone-cold hottie! I can see why she’d get so many A/S/Ls!
 
I remember smoking a cig while I was talking to an empty-headed teen, who politely told me that smoking was bad. I never felt so stupid.
 
Your wife is a stone-cold hottie! I can see why she’d get so many A/S/Ls!

She's having a sort of bad MS day so I'll be happy to share that with her, it will lift her spirits!
She's fine, just feeling "sorta blah" as she says.
Here she is making her "blah" face! 😁

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She's having a sort of bad MS day so I'll be happy to share that with her, it will lift her spirits!
She's fine, just feeling "sorta blah" as she says.
Here she is making her "blah" face! 😁

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Beautiful! To look like that, even on a blah day? Every girl on the planet wants that!
 
65% doesn't seem that high. It suggests that only about 15% of people overestimate their abilities (assuming that those who don't think they're above average were correct).
 
I don’t know, Allan.

I’ve seen examples of this phrase; Expensively schooled, negligibly educated.

That reminds me of Richard Pryor who said, “There’s a lot of educated people dumber than a mother****er.”
 
except for Foxicans......100% of them are dumb and proud of it.....
 
except for Foxicans......100% of them are dumb and proud of it.....
There are too many posts like this on DP. Consisting only of a childish insult, dull and boring.
 
There are too many posts like this on DP. Consisting only of a childish insult, dull and boring.
Well, as long as the insults are about the right people...
 
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