@@rr.studios One job confers praise and accolades from a wide community of dedicated professionals and experts, while the other jobs involved actual work. The choice was easy!
There is a massive kill streak and people are dying from heart attacks. The people that died around them did not die from a sickness or infection the humans die from hearts attacks at the same time. How would you find out what is going on?
A quick and easy test you can do to know if you're actually gifted is start paying attention in class and try to do well. If you get 100% with minimal effort, you are gifted. I did that in high school math class, I decided for a month or two to do a few exercises per class instead of just listening to the teacher and doing the tests, went from 70-80% to a consistent 100% on every single test and exam. Yeah, no studying, just a few of the exercises.
The one person we all threw away: you are all failures and God will kill the planet for my face. Nice replications you all got there. Did you make them yourself?
in my research, telling a gifted kid "wow", "so talented", "so smart for your age", "you will achieve so much" usually sets them up for failure. they never get a real challenge at that point, and then struggle at uni when they discover their high praise never translated to effortless success in class.
This doesn’t mean that you have to be pessimist with gifted people. They should be educated to accept with humbleness the compliments, yet not to be consumed by what others say. Anyway, I think that failure is due to insecurities and paradigms rather than compliments.
I scored 106 as a teen so I thought im kinda dumb or whatever and just wondered why people dont get my stuff sometimes, then i did the test in later life with focusing so i got almost 30 more points and realized I just didnt care about the test as a teen and probably was looking out the window and ran out of time..well
Sligthly below I’d say, I personally have an IQ of 146. That’s like a 1 in 1200 score. I’d say, if you’re imaginative and figure things out quite easily that average people see as a hard thing to do, you probably have superior intelligence. Could be anywhere between 120 - 140, just keep in mind that 140 and above is genius level.
@@VintageMusic729 The average genius these days watches intelligence intensive programs like Rick and Morty and has an IQ of over 9000. So you still have ways to go.
This makes me cry. I was that girl in school staring out the window remembering in vivid pictures what I read in all the Encyclopedias. My school couldn't help me. How I wish they could... I would have excelled in Academics, Music, Performing Art... And I would have been a happy child. Parents, do everything in your power to give your gifted child the opportunities I never had.
I have 158 IQ for block design and 147 for Perceptual Reasoning Index and still manage to die constantly in Minecraft and I have never been able to actually speed run the game. Fuck IQ fuck Minecraft.
@@Donutello712 you sir, are part of the problem, not part of the solution. When I said programs, I was talking mentors, college track classes, etc. The idiots you have to physically defend your self against are a different issue. The bullies that just run their mouth are really annoying. Intelligence is rare enough you don't need a mob making them hide their talent. Smart girls get this the worst.
When I was younger my classmates always made fun of me when I asked questions in class or made comments. No one understood what I was saying. Sometimes the teachers would do the same thing. In kindergarten (1980's) my teacher would slap my hand and tell me right handed people were smarter. Because I had no one to step in and teach me what I needed to learn I clammed up. It took many, many years of getting the highest scores on tests before I unlearned what my earlier years of school had taught me. I was never a timid kid, always on the football, soccer, baseball field, hustling kids on the basketball courts, tutoring peers when they needed help, but I was still "bullied" by the group. As far as special needs students getting the help they need, myself and others on the ends of the spectrum amount to so few that it wouldn't make sense to implement special programs. What will help is elevating the whole curve and recognizing reality for what it is. Intelligence is only one aspect of a successful life.
She nailed it with smart kids in school labeled as autistic or having adhd, most of those kids are just bored as piss and dont feel like theyre learning much in a classroom environment.
I took a further maths course in high school which the year group’s top 15 maths students were put on. Our teacher routinely told us we were a bunch of autists because only autistic kids could do maths so well. She was probably right though. I’ve been diagnosed as slightly spectral and I know at least three others from that class have subsequently been diagnosed with some sort of autism. When I was 5, my teachers thought I was dumb af. They reckoned I’d fail the entrance exams to the local middle school because I wouldn’t learn normally. When my parents removed me from that school and enrolled me somewhere smaller, my new teachers recognised that they had to teach me differently from the other kids. Within 6 months I was doing lessons with the kids in the year above and I stayed ahead of the curve my entire education. Sometimes it’s more about the teachers and less about the student. A good teacher understands what each student needs to thrive. Yet, too many teachers see kids as dumb because they fail to unlock their potential. God knows what my life would have been like if I’d have stayed at that school and never had talented teachers.
I got called lazy when I was uninspired to do the work all my life, then, at uni I met a teacher who deeply inspired me and gave me the time of day, who still thought I was lazy until I got top marks by the end of the semester since I finally had a reason to put in effort and learn/do the work, at which point I was considered their favourite student. As the comment above says, I also find it's more about the teacher being able to match with the student and understand/learn what kind of person they are, what makes them tick, and how to inspire them.
@Blyatiful Chin well I know my 14-digit library card number, my DL number, used to know my debit card number but it changed, does that count lol? Although good at number memorization I'm terrible at math
Selection bias. "Gifted" people are likely to be interested in the experiences of gifted people, while "normal" people probably don't care enough to leave a comment.
My in laws always tell me that I am autistic, so I never forget to remind them that I got it from them, which makes them happy and then we sit down and celebrate it.
I would contend that the way this psychologist thinks without pictures actually is a disorder which is called aphantasia, not just a different thinking style. It's when there's a lack of connection between the occipital coretx and hippocampus.
I got 158 for that block design subtest on the WAIS IQ test and 142-147 for perceptual reasoning but still manage to die in Minecraft by creepers. Fuck Minecraft and fuck IQ.
the jokes are understandable but for real like celebrating gifted children was the message, and I think that's pretty cool. I'd hate for some parents to be unable to help realize their child's full potential
I was a very precocious child with a highly gifted intellect and while it has its obvious advantages it has brought me a great deal of difficulty in my life, particularly in respect to relationships.
I have an above average IQ and it’s a pretty solid ego trap. Because I used it a lot of times to compensate for my low self esteem. When you’re a nerd and behave as a shy and socially awkward individual you engage in intellectualization and that bears a heavy risk to fall into the arrogance of intellect category. Though I’m pretty careful not to judge opinions based on the intellect of the person who utters it and though I believe that all people are a equal of worth I can’t deny that there is some portion of arrogance inside me. But apart from that I mostly got in insatiable thirst for knowledge. I could watch lectures of different academia topics such as neuroscience, physics, philosophy or psychology 24/7. Even when I’m talking a walk I’m listening to audiobooks with academic topics. It’s just who I am - it’s not something I’m doing to get attention. I just can’t help it, just like an addict.
Here we are, perusing through the commentary under a video about excessive IQ. The very act leaves me confused about whether or not I have an enormous ego problem. On the one hand, it feels as though my curiosity has driven me to the point of mental exhaustion with no concern for personal advancement. But looking at it from the other side, it seems simply impossible _not_ to be arrogant while expressing any of the insights that my curiosity has fought to earn me. At what point does self-reflection become self-indulgence?
@@pocket83squared Reading again this comment from two years ago - almost seems as if another person has written it! And though it is factual that I’ve tested above average and that people constantly keep saying to me how I’m “so knowledgeable and smart”, I feel ashamed for writing myself how “my” IQ is so above average. That’s exactly the reason I will not delete it (which was my first impulse). Which brings me to your question: You have to decide for yourself at what point self reflection becomes self indulgence. Your emotions will guide you in this process! If my comment triggered something inside of you it means at least that you’re uncertain about your ego. And this is a good thing. There’s a whole another world in the realm of emotions to be investigated by you! Learning about it will make you more complete as a person. I’ve always admired Richard Feynman and the way he was explaining physics. When you’re really absolutely invested in knowledge and knowledge alone, you may begin to sound something like him! Your comment sounds like it is coming from a genuinely curious person I believe that’s your way to go and I wish you good luck!
I have a pretty above average IQ never bring it up sometimes people will compliment that I'm really smart or something like that I'll say sometimes or I have my moments 😂
@ I meant it in a negative way, to be honest. If I had written the comment today, I’d have written it like this: Almost all the people I come into contact almost always point out that I’m very smart. I’ve listened to sentences like this since I was a child. The problem is, when you become emotionally fragile at a certain point in your life you begin using this as a shield. And this becomes an ego trap. I really appreciate your reply! Thank you 🙏
I hated school. It was painfully boring. My copping mechanisms were day dreaming elaborate adventures or scenarios. When i got bored of that i would fall asleep. I slept k-12. Since i was a nice polite kid teachers mostly just left me alone while i slept lol
I may have an IQ of 80, but idgaf cuz it still takes sun light 4 minutes to reach the earth but only 5 seconds for me to light this blunt. WHOOP WHOOP!
Some people respond well to the kind of praise she talked about at the end, others don't. Spend your whole childhood getting told how smart or amazing you are only to enter into adulthood and being confronted with people smarter than you or who just work a lot harder than you and it's easy to not be able to cope with that. Or they can have no way to cope with failure because they were raised thinking their inherent qualities and attributes lead to success so when they fail it must also be due to who they are. And you get more "normal" problems like they never had to try hard to succeed until later in school, in college, or even until they started working; thus they have no idea how to try and push themselves. Some people will overcome this, some won't.
I was diagnosed with adhd and emotional issues so my school consultant gave me IQ test when I get my results in the mail it came out as 160 I was surprised because I hated school but I loved learning things that interest me.
I hate school too and 70 and history and physics, while being able to explain virtual universes and rise of the roman empire, it isn't simply crystalized knowledge I understand these subjects deeply. It is simply a matter of whether you prepare to tests or not, guess what I ain't gonna prepare for a test with no reason than getting high grades I'd rather read books about math than do a project. I'm in a gifted class (130+).
Grammar has nothing to do with high IQ. I'm sure Einstein wasnt the best at grammar. Usually your mind is too busy constructing multi-dimensional thoughts and images to care about putting an apostrophe in the right place so that a half wit who needs perfect grammar to understand something can follow along.
@@burstcity3832 lmao they were jus saying that if someone’s gon claim to be so smart that they can have basic grammar... paul never claimed to be Einstein mate
It's not actually fun being gifted. It's difficult to make friends because when you try to make conversation from your point of view, your thoughts don't mesh with others' thinking. Average people often don't understand our jokes. The IQ difference can be a formidable barrier to finding common ground. It's also difficult to find entertainment that's.... well.. entertaining. Pop culture doesn't do it, I find the best way to entertain myself is by learning new things. We're often shunned because we 'always have our nose in a book'... to be fair we're just trying to avoid the boredom that plagues us.
Ah...wish you could magically transport in both time and space.... to my school during the 70s in America I was soooooo board...ah...bored...out of my mind in elementary school, that I rebelled/stop doing work ...didn't work, still got 80% plus on exams, down from 95%+ Sloooooow mass assignments.. "wait patiently for the class"....Ah!!....30+ years later, it's still frustrating. I'm not 145 IQ, rather 142...averaged over five exams over a twenty year span......low of 128, high was 158...estimated.
I wonder if schools label gifted children with ADHD so that they don't have to think about tailoring the child's education to their unique abilities. When I was at school in the 90s I reckon a child that was constantly distracted like that would simply be labelled as lazy and berated for it.
@@bobjohnson1096 It's not just being different though. There's no reason why a priori you should be rewarded for being different. It's a failure to recognise and make the most of useful potential. In a crude sense it's failure to make use of resources. A kind of littering if you like. An "I can't be arsed to take my wrapper to that bin over there" attitude.
In some cases, possibly. I doubt the dismissal is deliberate in most cases - often teachers just aren't good at properly identifying kids that may have learning differences like giftedness or ADHD. Also, it's possible for gifted kids to have ADHD as well - as you implied,, there are several overlapping signs between the two, and for some kids, their giftedness hides their ADHD because it makes coping easier (until they reach a big enough challenge, such as college and beyond).
@@RianeBane Absolutely. It's tempting to clamp everything down and cut things into nice neat easily manageable chunks. People aren't like that though. The trick I think, is to find the optimal cut off on the IQ scale and attempt to minimise the damage done to all on the scale of IQ. Hell if I know how to do that though 🤣
They can't even provide children of average intelligence with an adequate education in many states (I reside in the worst one) so they certainly can't to a gifted student
I have an above average IQ. I was terribly bored in high school. Tons of discipline problems. I quit at 16. Retired at 44. No regrets for leaving school, it's a toxic environment for some folks.
I scored a 143 on my IQ test, yet it really doesn’t change anything at all. I have topics and hobbies that i’m very interested in, and I believe i’m very well spoken in regard to those things, but I’ve never felt “intelligent” from it. In fact, one of my bad habits is questioning my brain on a damn near scheduled basis lol I have a pretty low self esteem, I have seizures from time to time, and my attention deficit is extremely annoying (most people think i’m hard of hearing because my focus makes it almost impossible to properly and actively listen). Really, what i’ve learned through it all is that your IQ does not define you. Having a high IQ doesn’t make you a doctor or scientist; having a low IQ doesn’t make you an idiot. A fish isn’t stupid for its inability to climb a tree. Have a great day/night everyone! :)
Absolutely! I scored a 145 on mine as a child (though as you get older you gain or lose on average about 15 points since IQ quantifiers change on child vs adult). I've just lived my life just like everyone else. Granted, I've always been considered weird or unusual, but I've come to have a healthy appreciation for it. After all, if everyone was normal in the world, we would live in a very boring place.
I have an IQ in the range of 145-170, and I am socially anxious, awkward, can't focus a lot of the time and overthink everything. Ignorance might be bliss after all.
Being "diagnosed" with a higher intelligence is not a gift, the intelligence might be a gift, but knowing that you are supposed to be better or overachieve what the rest does, hurts.
I literally thought it was normal to never think in images until I spoke about this to my girlfriend. The thought that there's people out there that can develop an image in their mind and then paint or draw that image is amazing to me, which is not to say I don't think I couldn't paint or draw at an average level but I can only put together a concept of an image in my mind, I can't say what it would actually look like as a finished product. Wonder if this affects things like the visual fidelity of dreams, real weird.
There's a condition called aphantasia, which is basically that people can't imagine things in their head visually. For example, if I were to say: think of an apple, people with aphantasia would know what that means, but that's it. People without that condition can visualise the roundness of the apple, the little leaf, the glowing green/red skin, etc.
@@fabianvanderelst9643 That's absolutely wild, I'm positive I have this too some degree. Thankfully I don't feel like it's ever affected my ability to learn or understand information but frankly I'm a bit jealous people can visualize information like that. It's strange that I clearly possess some type of capability to visualize environments, people, and objects though because I still do have dreams but I don't seem to be able to consciously visualize any of those things, outside of maybe recalling a specific memory.
@@cheshur6550 wow, yeah, when I saw your comment that was my immediate thought, that's why I wrote it :) Maybe it's worth looking up a bit about those things, and see how it can work out positively for you :) I found out two years ago, while sucking at architecture that I might have ADD, and indeed, I got diagnosed with it by a psychologist. I used to hate, and still do, when I'm reminded of that, but now I'm trying to just embrace it, and find the benefits of that. Yes, I may suck at concentrating, but on the other hand, when I'm doing something cool, I can hyperfocus, and especially at work this comes in handy. I love my job, and I feel like sometimes I'm capable of much more than the rest. However, this makes me tired me way faster, and then it doesn't work like that anymore. But generally speaking, I may have a terrible time working hard on random things, but when there's things I like, people are often stunned about how insane my drive is, and how in the everloving shit I remember some things and such. What I'm trying to say: go for it, I'm sure not being able to visualise things has a huge advantage somewhere that you can fully use! :) In any case, don't let an internet stranger like me tell you anything, best to check everything for yourself :)
I was labeled with ADHD as a kid and later told I was really smart but by that time the damage is done. For years I thought I was stupid and I lost my self confidence. Idk if I ever got it back
@@jjjj-x9g Math is not something you are either capable or not capable of for the rest of your entire life. Maths are just concepts. You can learn anything you want
I am smart enough (borderline above average) to appreciate really smart people. There are a couple of people at my work that should really not be working there that can figure things out easily. For example setting up the tube bender with more than four bends and having to adjust it so the part comes out within tolerance. We obviously take notes but sometimes the tubes stretch differently from the previous times and require adjustments. That's when you have to visualize where to make the adjustments. It can be very frustrating because it is so easy to visualize incorrectly.
Very interesting. When I was 4 years old, I was tested by Dr. Jizz Hazam on one of the most rigorous IQ tests and scored a 451 with a standard deviation of 15. I always knew that I was in the 400 range because while my 300 IQ counterparts could remember 100,000 digits of pi in 2 seconds, I could remember 1,000,000 in a fraction of that time. And if you want to talk to me about how memory does not correlate to intelligence, then I'm just going to say that I discovered an abstract and difficult pattern that when explained to the best mathematicians, all they could do was scratch their head in wonder. I was just 4. Now I'm 79 and I'm going to destroy the Earth when I turn 80 with my inventions.
I pretty much think 3-dimensionally. Thinking in words is too slow, I don't understand how someone can do that effectively. So when I'm thinking I unfocus my eyes/look at something that won't distract me, then I use the visual part of my brain to create a 3-dimensional world with the physical rules that I need and the parts I need to be able to "create" whatever I'm thinking about. I can zoom in and out instantly to whatever part I need to examine. It's great for understanding complex ideas and structures and for remembering events (for example a chess-game can be "stored" as a 3-dimensional moving object. If I want to know what was done on move 10 I just play back the movement of the object in my head until I get to the point I need). It makes me kind of slow sometimes when I talk though, since I have to "translate" my thoughts into words.
@@heartsfear9216 I believe so. I think that people just fall into habits when they think, they start using one technique to "solve" thinking, then they get stuck. I had bad eyesight and didn't get glasses until I was 13 years old or somewhere around that time. I believe this is why I "evolved" into this way of thinking. My visual centre in the brain was "free" to do the thinking, so it was the part of my brain I started using the most. Bad eyesight and being bored = creating visual worlds inside ones head. If someone just force themselves into doing this, they will eventually become pretty good at it.
@@heartsfear9216 If I put any time into it I believe I would be a good artist, but it's not my passion, so it's hard for me to not get bored too quickly. I enjoy painting pictures where you will see different things depending on how you focus your eyes. Kind of like a rorschach, just not as abstract. I struggled with understanding how to read and write, it just seemed totally illogical to me, but once I cracked the code that I had to use a different part of my brain it became easy. I'm "bi-lingual" when it comes to how I use my brain, it's just that visual is my primary language. I still struggle with keeping on top of anything that is "paperwork" though, it's not natural to me and it just seems so slow and ineffective.
@@heartsfear9216 I'm sadly not in a profession, I'm on disability. The closest thing is that I coach youth-football (soccer). It suits me well, I get to use the fact that I can "see" the complex structure of every movement of 22 players simultaneously over a prolonged period of time in my head to design drills that is actual cutouts of situations that occur or we want to occur often during a match etc. I get payed some money for it, but it's far from a "profession".
@@heartsfear9216 I'm norwegian, and I used to know how to code back in the day. I have very limited energy and is pretty much totally wiped out after a session as a coach. Doing that 4 times a week leaves me with sleeping, eating and being able to keep my apartment tidy and being social a couple of times pr month. It's not ideal, but I'm not on disability for no reason :)
I was gifted as a child; my father beat the piss out of me for not performing well in sports and not getting along in school. I am now a disabled alcoholic.
So I got scored a 142 iq in the Mensa test, but, in order to prove that, I played dozens of mind games with another high iq relative of mine, with an iq of 156 tested by another professional psychologist, so him and I played dozens of mind games, riddles, puzzles, competing one to one and being in par with him in every single challenge and relating to that of not paying attention to class and failing in school, i draw to the conclusions that my iq was actually that high. But in all honesty, i fiercely believe that intelligence cannot be quantified nor measured by any tool, and people shouldn't limit their intelligence to iq but go beyond that label since the brain has the necessary elements to do that, in case you're feeling intimidated by so called "intellectuals".
@@AllenWoody-kj7sc I possess a Mensa-verified IQ of 135. Among my acquaintances, one has achieved a remarkable 145+ score in real life, while another online connection has demonstrated a 142 on the same cognitive assessment. Simply observe in the right context; evaluate others by closely scrutinizing their reasoning speed (distinct from reaction speed), their working memory capacity, and their propensity for innovation.
My IQ is 127, and I often find that I grasp things faster than others. As a result, I tend to have little patience for questions I consider obvious. The downside is that I have a tendency to overthink things.
I also took a test while young and scored over 140, they ended up giving me the choice to either stay in my current grade or skip 2 grades to get challenging work (this was 6th grade at the time) I chose to stay in current grade of course, too many reasons to even list. But maybe I think thats why people with higher IQs tend to dislike school, I feel maybe if I had a more challenging school life and if I focused more on excelling studies instead of keeping my friends maybe I would have liked it more. For reference today I am a Data Engineering Lead at a well known company, i never graduated college and my gpa in high school was little above 2.0, i am also self taught, no accolades to speak of 😂 I also have bipolar disorder and I am sure I have ADHD but never formally tested for it
@Luce M I enjoy programming and do it regularly as a hobbby, its my passion in life so I already quite the resume when I applied to my first job, it was also a startup. The experience there got me my 2nd job, also a startup. Both jobs had me leading teams by the 2 yr mark, so I had lead experience by the time I got a job as a Data Eng. Lead
That's funny because faced with the same choice, I took the other path, yet still ended up in similar circumstances to yourself. I entered high-school one year ahead, but after scoring above 150 on an IQ test, they skipped me ahead another 3 years and put me into year 11 at 12 years old. It destroyed my social life because we also moved just before I started high-school; so I didn't have any of my old friends, and I had very little opportunity to make new friends given that I was 12 years old and everyone was 16 in my classes (+ the stigma/bullying for being a "genius" - even though I tried to hide from everyone that I was doing classes 4 years ahead). Fast-forwarding - I derped around after high-school, did well in college but ended up taking 2 years off and haven't graduated yet. I discovered programming and it became my passion as well; I'm fully self-taught and am working as a full-stack web developer now.
Interesting, at 1:04 she talks about not thinking in images. It was only a few years ago that I learned other people *can* actually see things when they 'imagine' ... which kind of makes since given the word 'image'.
@@donthesitatebegin9283 I see, I think. I don't form images, the condition has a name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia I was well over 60 years old when I discovered that other people can actually see things they imagine. Again kind of a duh moment considering that image is the base of imagination. Turns out that most of us having brains that work (or not) that way are technical people. I have always run algorithms through my imagination (which for me are thoughts). I have no idea what it would be like to understand algorithms visually which is probably why I detest whiteboard exercises, which fortunately I am old enough to have not been subjected to.
Her language is just faulty. There is no evidence that people can't imagine things, because it would mean they have no visual memory, which if true, would be apparent from MRI studies. What she means is that she thinks verbally, but that's all thinking is: verbal processing of information in preparation to speak or write. Nobody "thinks in pictures", because imagination and visual memory recollection is not thinking; it's just imagination and memory recall, which are processes unrelated to speech. But because people describe it as "thinking in pictures" and she doesn't know that that's not a real thing, she takes it literally that other people have a capacity that she lacks. It's one of those lost in translation moments. The same problem exists with people thinking they don't have a mental voice. People have falsely described this as an "internal dialogue" or a "internal narrative", but that's not what it actually is. For example, I don't get up and think, "I'm rising from the bed now, I'm taking one step with my right leg, one step with my left leg", etc., (monologue narrative), nor do I hear a third person narrative voice describing everything I do, nor do I carry on conversations with a voice I hear in my head (dialogue). But because people use these misleading misnomers, there are people who take their meanings literally and think that they don't have a mental voice; i.e. the mental recollection and structuring of words to convey meaning in preparation to speak. We ALL do that; it's an inherent trait. We all make mental lists of things to do or things to say. It's literally impossible to not have an internal voice, because you can't form words without first recalling and thinking them; the mental activity precedes and directs the physical activity, even if you're speaking as you think, because even with direct information-to-speech, you're still recalling knowledge of words and grammar from memory that embody the meaning you're trying to convey. If you can recall a phone number without speaking it, or a word or sentence without speaking it, then you have an internal voice. Nobody lacks that; if they did, they would be incapable of speech. There are MRI studies that back this up, yet people still continue to perpetuate this myth that there are people without an internal voice, because they get hung up on the literal meaning of a misnomer.
The power of the number is not in the IQ, it's in the lowest common denominator. Dumbness tends to prevail over everything. Still, smart people are fun to be around.
I am at 145 and I also have no natural visual though. I thought I was a freak and I spent a significant amount time trying to cultivate that ability. I draw, more as an adolescent, I had “knowledge of how it would look but no reference to it in my mind. Often, I was surprised the final product of each line. 🤷🏻♂️
That's highly circumstantial. For the autistic people with average or low iq, autism is nothing but a nuisance that effects social communication among other things.
Exactly because it's considered a disability, that's why we don't have a proper system for developing the abilities of autistic children. There is another video with a story of a father of autistic kid (boy), who used to hurt himself and behave like very disabled. Until they brought him to some very good expert, who told the parents of a special place for autistic kids, in very peaceful and noise free atmosphere. They brought the boy there for a while and suddenly he started to develop normally and to exhibit higher (then normal) abilities. I think that all autistic kids have the ability to develop better than neurotypical kids, but most of them are into improper environments. These kids are very sensitive and whatever might not make impression as anything special for a neurotypical person, can be terrifying for autistic child. They cannot cope with too much data from the surroundings and often get sensory overload, as their brains are too sensitive for what we consider 'normal life'. But under the right circumstances, these sensitive brains can reach better understanding on many subjects...
Heightened neuroplasticity can be disadvantageous for you as well. For example, you are more likely to develop addiction on neurological level . Overplasticity is not good either
I have half a dozen degrees from basic bachelors through to a doctorate - and I am unemployed. Apparently I am a pale, stale and male... where is my privilege? Never experienced it - all I experienced was profound boredom in class, at university and at work. Why, because people resent you when they know you are smarter than them - and you keep having to literally hold yourself back from being the person who speaks up and has ideas. It's a frigging nightmare. What's worse, I have practical qualifications, forklift driver etc - which I am happy to do because I can stay with my own thoughts, happy - but people see my CV and won't hire me "you'll just find something better and leave" - to where? I am pale, stale and male... overqualified and they figure I want more money etc... in sciences they will always employ someone else than me - female bc - need more women in engineering... yeah right - so I am on the slag heap...
The title of the video says "Psychologist Fiona Smith about a 145 + IQ", but in the video, she doesn't say a word about people with 145 IQ or more, or about how they can be different from those in the 130-144 range.
Not meming since people will automatically think so. I haven't taken an official iq test. I really need to because i feel like i will either score low or very high. I think entirely different then anyone i've ever meant and i seem to have a very hard time with simple tasks but with more complex things it becomes easier. I noticed a pattern with simple tasks I almost subconsciously add steps that don't make sense and can make me panic when it keeps happening. I can't explain other things because I have no idea how to describe other thought patterns.
I feel u bruh. Mine is 145 & one time my mom ask what do I want for breakfast & I told her the normal white thingy with yellow dot in the middle. Its like I woke up forgetting the word 'egg' exists. Wtf😂😂
That’s because intelligent people are aware of how much there is that we don’t know and we often focus on that whereas lower IQ people are more contained in the small fraction of knowledge that they have and are sometimes even impressed with it. I mean I think that but also WTF do I know? 🤣🤣
Math has nothing to do with your IQ. Also IQ is highly flawed in so many ways. Its a pseudoscience. Try to not think about your "IQ", Try instead to think about your ability to solve problems and think in unique ways. That is what matters, really. I have an IQ over 140 as well according to tests, and still struggle weekly doing grade school arithmetic in my head. That has more to do with my age I think, and drug use. My mind was lightning fast as a child/young adult, and I have slowed it down a bit. Still fast but not like it was. Also, I do not sleep well.
@@Hbmd3E family dynamic best predicts future success. IQ measures your ability to learn and apply concepts, it tests nothing about confidence, wealth, social grace or drive, all of which are factors. Also, success is a poorly defined term. Jeff Bezos has most of the money in the world and his wife still left him. Is he successful?
@@NWPaul72 Seems right what you say. Also you can be evil genious like Albert Pike. Then there is also wisdom that is different than IQ. IQ would be like computing power/memory in computer. Wisdom is something that has kinda divine aspect to it. But someways IQ test is best predictor in narrow sense. Probably there is lots of high IQ people that dont be succesful but all who occupy surtain places have it high, like professors. Accomblishing difficult tasks fast you need in lawyers and so on. ua-cam.com/video/ui52h2_gbos/v-deo.html
My son has recently been diagnosed with Autism. I have a tested IQ of 142 and my partner although not tested has always been gifted also. Growing up, a lot of concessions were made for me as a child that weren't made for other children to accommodate my learning, I never understood why but my son's diagnosis makes me question whether I was diagnosed and it has been kept from me as to not make me feel different to others. I have always had difficulty fitting in. Then I question my son's diagnosis, perhaps he is just bored, perhaps I was just bored. I am unsure as to whether it would be advantageous to get tested myself.
What is known about being autistic has changed a lot very recently, so it is possible you went under the radar throughout school, etc, you just didn't fit the very narrow set of official criteria. If you are looking into whether or not you have an autistic neurotype, I'd recommend finding some channels on UA-cam lead by autistic people sharing their own experiences, and researching things like monotropism that has been seen to correlate with the autistic experience as well, although it isn't specific to autistic neurotypes. My reason for this is because the official criteria for 'diagnosing autism' is still lagging behind quite a lot, so you may not feel you relate to the official, neurotypical lead external observations that you would find through many diagnostic routes, despite having your experiences relate to what many other autistic people describe theirs as. From what I've seen, the autistic community is very welcoming of anyone who self-identifies with being autistic without any formal 'diagnosis'. Unfortunately the focus on autistic children through most formal diagnostic routes means there is little in the way of support for autistic adults, despite having/being an autistic neurotype not being something that is grown out of, just traumatised into masking heavily. On the flip side, having a formal 'diagnosis' can limit you in some specific situations, for example, I believe you can't move to Australia, from the UK at least, if you are formally/officially identified as autistic, as their out-of-date criteria suggests concerns for using more resources in medical care, etc as reasons for refusing (I think, I'm trying to recall 3rd party info from memory). I'd recommend channels like 'I'm Autistic, Now What' and 'Orion Kelly - That Autistic Guy'. I feel they've been good for my own exploration anyway. There are more but I can't recall their channels right now. You may find that simply researching and relating to others' experiences is enough to help you understand your son and yourself better, and that that's enough to satisfy the feelings you have/were having for a formal recognition for yourself. I only looked at when you commented (2 years ago) there in that last sentence, but I'll post this reply anyway in case you're still pondering the idea. If you are autistic, it is probably still on your mind in some form. :)
@@clarkbowler157 Probably not. The IQ test gets shifted to match the population over time so the average stays around 100 depending on the country's education system if I'm remembering correctly. The channel 'Veritasium' has a video on the IQ test. It is based on a more neurotypical demographic, and there's suggestion floating around that autistic individuals average slightly higher by 2 or 3 points, but as knowledge on the autistic neurotype develops, and a significantly larger portion of the population relates to it, that could change as it was based off an increasingly small portion of the group. Autistic people generally have what's known as a more 'spikey' skill set too. This means that where a neurotypical may be 'average' across several fields, topics or specific tasks, an autistic individual could average across those same fields, topics or tasks very similarly in approximate overall skill 'value', but appear to have a far greater knowledge of and/or ability in one of those fields, topics or tasks, but then also have significantly more difficulty in another relative to the neurotypical. I'm trying to recall from memory as I can't remember the channel that covered this more accurately than I can, but a possible example could be a neurotypical in an office relating to financial stuff or something. They can type relatively quick, operate various types of software, answer the phone, talk through the various stuff with others in person, on the phone, in emails, etc all at a similar level, but an autistic person could excel in the financial calculations (apologies for the stereotypical topic, it's just what came to mind as an easier example to have a go at explaining) at a level far beyond colleagues, but be significantly slower at typing or have difficulty explaining how the various calculations relate to one another to another person over the phone or in an email, etc. If you need the figures quickly, boom, you have them, but if you want an explanation of how to calculate them yourself, you better understand the technical language or go somewhere else. They could speak in the technical language all day long for their given interest, but ask for a 'simplified' version and you might not get the break down of information you were hoping for. It's not that they don't understand it in 'simple' terms, it just doesn't click in their mind like that. Of course, this is only one example and every person is significantly different. An area many autistic people notice an odd response from neurotypicals is when they could have mastered a 'complex' task or topic, but struggle with performing some 'basic' tasks like tying stuff like laces, string, etc or preparing 'basic' food items. As a result, determining 'intelligence' level or something else like that can be very difficult. Are they a genius because of the topic(s) they excel at or cognitively limited for the more 'basic' stuff they can't do, where someone recognised as neurotypical has those peaks and troughs in ability much closer to their average. There are definitely gaps in what I'm remembering when I look at those examples, so definitely try to find another video on it. A channel like 'Autistamatic' might be where I saw it but I'm really not sure.
Being intelligent is normal. 90% of joes think they are smarter than the average Joe. Joe studies physics, and can perform complex sets of tasks in sequence like role a spliff while high
When people say they only think in images or only think in words. I don’t understand because I can do both. In fact I can visualize words on my ceiling or wall. Or do math. I was profoundly bored in all of k-12 aka adhd in college really it was just the torture of a non challenging curriculum.
I think most people are BRILLIANT but that is suppressed often due to societal standards and "norms". Anti intellectualism is consistent with modernity. Seems we've fooled ourselves into thinking without thinking.
Most people aren't brilliant. Most people never do anything creative in their lifetime. Most people never go somewhere intellectually challenging in their lifetime. It's sad, but it's reality.
@@boskonikolic8961 MOST people aren't challenged intellectually or influenced creatively from the time they're born. They are taught fear! Some of us suffer enough to know better but surely everyone can't be blamed for their ignorance. They can only "pray" they wake up. I consider myself lucky.
My IQ is at least 800, she's ok but I doubt she could get in the interplanetary space university that I attend to at Mars. Harvard and MIT were just my safety schools. I also finished all seasons of Rick and Morty in one sitting, therefore explaining my soaring levels of intelligence.
@@cuteshrek5927 No rating , but played a lot as a teenager , but that was 40 years ago. A friend recently gave me a glass chess set and I was able to play a few games with him and enjoyed playing again. Thanks for asking , are you rated?
One of the smartest men I've ever met was a janitor at my kids school. He never reached his potential because he was never recognised or supported properly as a kid, but he had made peace with it and would read up on quantum mechanics at home. He loved knowing that what he was doing was literally making kids lives better. Intention and impact.
@@MountainMaid238 Sure , lots of people who may have not gotten the best education etc.. , but when you talk to them , they are actually very mart and take pride in their work and provide a great service to others .Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
I worked with a Fijian guy who’s resume stated that he had entered just about every Australian maths / science competitions and had been top 1% in all. He also later told me he had been approached to do an IQ test and upon results had been offered membership to some group because of it (can’t remember the name of the group). I was technically his boss and I would often write and send emails for him with scanned documents and I remember him often correcting my spelling ( he had only learnt English 6 months prior and already spoke 4 other languages). It kind of annoyed me that he had such a menial job as he was capable of so much more but he was such a humble, well-adjusted family guy that didn’t let any silly politics or behavior bother him in the slightest. He as a human being was superior to me in everyway and I often thought if everyone was similar to this guy the world would be far better.
@@jimmyfallon2484 I think that process happens naturally to an extent as people select mates, well less desirable traits are not so much bred out but sorted to a higher extent leaving a greater divide in humans in society these days. There is a broad range of traits in people that are required for functional societies and sometimes people who do have what we call less desirable traits possess certain qualities that are required in different circumstances. Good topic for discussion as even as I write I'm pulled in different directions as to my opinion on the topic.
Hello Math, your story touched my heart. I suddenly crying like a baby at midnight. I feel like you are a thoughful boss. About myself, I think my intellectual level is just above average (worldwide). My teacher said that I'm still one of the top intelligent individuals in my country, my problem is I have no competitive attitude. I'm not in the right place I'm supposed to be. So maybe the Fijian guy you're talking about have been through same problem like me because of the living environment. I'm highly self-contained individual. I... don't know how to ask for help. And one things I realised lately in my life, that I'm still need mentor. You may think that because he's smart, he can know the right things to do with his career. But maybe not. IQ is the indicator to measure how fast and accurate a person react to non-human objects. That's it. He may learn things faster. But he may have no idea about the other other jobs. You can hire and train him. That can be the best investment in your life. 😊
"your parents know their child best, if they think nothing is wrong with you, they're probably right" my parents who think depression is "the thing when you get old and forget stuff": lmao yea my child is fine schools who didn't notice neither adhd nor depression: "lmao what a lazy kid"
I am kid (13) but l am more intelegent than other kid's, l know a lot of things for a example: animals, very smart people... and becuse l am in Bossnien l speak Englis. You can better think, faster read, better memory, better senses...
Thank you! Looking out the window, looking at the images in my head - that was me in school and it frustrated teachers and they seemed to think I had a problem, but i just had no interest in most of what they were talking about or I already understood it.
Most of the commenters are probably angry individuals who didn't score as high as they think they should, or people of above average intelligence who seem to think they are geniuses.
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Sometimes I have trouble tying my own shoelaces because I keep composing symphonies every time I kneel down due to my 500 IQ.
I do the same thing but with breakthrough scientific theories. I have so many my hands have arthritis from writing it down.
good one bro XDXD
lol.
I make living cells from scratch all the time just haven't released the technology because "the world is not ready"
I have velcro shoes with an IQ of 750.
I have an IQ of 143 and my biggest achievement is winning 1v5 pistol round in CS:GO
And 8 likes on a youtube comment
@@muhammadmahdi8492 Good job! You have 3 whole likes now!
🏆✨🎇NEW RECORD! 🎇✨🏆
Thank you .I'd like to thank my family for supporting me and my coatch. I wouldn't be able to achieve such a record without you.
@@muhammadmahdi8492 Did you just forget to thank me? Very rude of you.
@@ReeN1995 but you're my coatch
I have an IQ of 150. I have now realized air is a placebo. I haven't breathed in weeks
@@paracelsus9282 considering water hitting the stockmarket, I'm gonna file this under "check how it aged in 20 years"
:D
You seem full of hot placebo then!
@@KurtGodel432 Nice nick and avatar ;)
Lmao.
My test said I have an IQ of 257 and recommended "nuclear physicist," "brain surgeon," and "UA-cam commenter" as good future occupations.
I wonder which you picked.
@@rr.studios One job confers praise and accolades from a wide community of dedicated professionals and experts, while the other jobs involved actual work. The choice was easy!
@@abesapien9930 You say easy but you have an IQ of 257.
I doubt it was that easy compared to the choices that laymen must take.
@@abesapien9930 If you have 257 IQ then how about I give you a puzzle
There is a massive kill streak and people are dying from heart attacks. The people that died around them did not die from a sickness or infection the humans die from hearts attacks at the same time. How would you find out what is going on?
Everyone who didn't like school or had trouble paying attention- “well I guess Im gifted”.
So true
A quick and easy test you can do to know if you're actually gifted is start paying attention in class and try to do well. If you get 100% with minimal effort, you are gifted. I did that in high school math class, I decided for a month or two to do a few exercises per class instead of just listening to the teacher and doing the tests, went from 70-80% to a consistent 100% on every single test and exam. Yeah, no studying, just a few of the exercises.
The one person we all threw away: you are all failures and God will kill the planet for my face. Nice replications you all got there. Did you make them yourself?
- Dad, im not stupid, im gifted
- Shut up you punk.
Your forgot the part "But somehow even with lack of enjoyment and attenition they excel "
I put a blanket on my computer when I put it to sleep mode. 200+ IQ right here
Wait, I actually do this. Because my mobo lights don’t turn off when I put it in sleep.
No, 300+
ahahahaha
I have an IQ of 75 and I'm a successful politician, Hollywood screenwriter and social media personality
Gavin Newsom is that you?
Yes you're definitely an American politician with an IQ like that 🤣. Let me guess, you're also orange?
Amen
@@MountainMaid238 socio fascist trash love Joe Biden
@@lockandloadlikehell I'd love anything that's not Dumpy Trumpy. The fact that I'm not American must make you cringe that much more lol
Mitocondria is the cell of a powerhouse
Are you a Nobel Prize winner?
@@sevnesioran6193 probably he is
thanks me too
Maze Bean
Genius !
in my research, telling a gifted kid "wow", "so talented", "so smart for your age", "you will achieve so much" usually sets them up for failure. they never get a real challenge at that point, and then struggle at uni when they discover their high praise never translated to effortless success in class.
This doesn’t mean that you have to be pessimist with gifted people. They should be educated to accept with humbleness the compliments, yet not to be consumed by what others say. Anyway, I think that failure is due to insecurities and paradigms rather than compliments.
Definitely the experience in my life. Told how amazing I was all the time and didn't learn how to cope with difficulty until well into my thirties.
Yup. It causes a "Fixed Mindset."
What the hell do you know, Frank
@@Woodroffski so there is still hope for me
I have a IQ score of 140 and I dry my underwear on a gas stove while watching dora the explorer.
What's yr occupation?
@@homebrandrules he is so smart, he clearly is on disability support.
You're living in 2077. You should be proud.
I do that too
I scored 106 as a teen so I thought im kinda dumb or whatever and just wondered why people dont get my stuff sometimes, then i did the test in later life with focusing so i got almost 30 more points and realized I just didnt care about the test as a teen and probably was looking out the window and ran out of time..well
I got like a 89 on my IQ test which is like almost an A, so I guess you could say I’m pretty smart 😎
You got an IQ of 89? Well then you're pretty much of a smarty pants.
🤮🤮🤮
Lol
Damn you killed it😎
Awesome!
My IQ was so high as a child I didn’t bother learning how to read.. I got all the intellectual stimulation I needed from day time TV.
Your name is one r away from making you a famous person.
HAHAHHAHA
Actually un-ironically impossible to identify OP’s comment as pure sarcasm, half-sarcasm, or pure, genuine, seriousness.
@@remy8516 well, it's fun to pretend at least.
@@remy8516yeah it's like the double slit experiment except op has to resolve to either narcissism or depression.
Mom says I'm smart and special so I've concluded that my IQ is at least 145.
Thats good enough tbh...
This is youtube so that maybe slightly below average
Sligthly below I’d say, I personally have an IQ of 146. That’s like a 1 in 1200 score. I’d say, if you’re imaginative and figure things out quite easily that average people see as a hard thing to do, you probably have superior intelligence. Could be anywhere between 120 - 140, just keep in mind that 140 and above is genius level.
@@VintageMusic729 The average genius these days watches intelligence intensive programs like Rick and Morty and has an IQ of over 9000. So you still have ways to go.
@@rr.studios 🤣🤣🤣
This makes me cry. I was that girl in school staring out the window remembering in vivid pictures what I read in all the Encyclopedias. My school couldn't help me. How I wish they could... I would have excelled in Academics, Music, Performing Art... And I would have been a happy child. Parents, do everything in your power to give your gifted child the opportunities I never had.
I have an IQ of 132. I can breathe through my mouth with my eyes closed.
good one, i actually tried that
Master..Teach me.
Dont breath through your mouth, breath through your nose... Look up mewing. This is very important for your health.
I have an IQ of 312 and I can eat through my butthole.
I have 158 IQ for block design and 147 for Perceptual Reasoning Index and still manage to die constantly in Minecraft and I have never been able to actually speed run the game. Fuck IQ fuck Minecraft.
I have an IQ of 140!
Oh, wait. Typo! It was supposed to say 14.
Typo, you meant to say 1
That's ok, 4 is quite close to 0 on the keyboard...
...🤔
How can yoy even write this if you have IQ 14?
This joke would be better if it showed your original comment as (edited)
Ah, a solid 14.0
I froze a banana once and turned it into a boomerang.
If you throw it away do it gently.... otherwise you'll end up with a sore head! 😉
@@crazydavec3861 how'd you know that would happen? Did you try it too?
he's too dangerous to be left alive
I froze a boomerang once and turned it into a banana.
+300 iq
It's so wrong how much power a teacher has over their students without them even remotely knowing, that makes me almost so angry
kids bully the intelligent ones and the slow ones. schools need to have programs for both ends of the curve.
Real intellectuals protect themselves from bullies. Excuses
@@Donutello712 you sir, are part of the problem, not part of the solution. When I said programs, I was talking mentors, college track classes, etc. The idiots you have to physically defend your self against are a different issue. The bullies that just run their mouth are really annoying. Intelligence is rare enough you don't need a mob making them hide their talent. Smart girls get this the worst.
@@randaldavis8976 you gotta protect yourself physically or verbally whatever it is. No matter what
@@Donutello712 you’re definitely on the left hand side of the bell curve. Full offense intended.
When I was younger my classmates always made fun of me when I asked questions in class or made comments. No one understood what I was saying. Sometimes the teachers would do the same thing. In kindergarten (1980's) my teacher would slap my hand and tell me right handed people were smarter. Because I had no one to step in and teach me what I needed to learn I clammed up.
It took many, many years of getting the highest scores on tests before I unlearned what my earlier years of school had taught me.
I was never a timid kid, always on the football, soccer, baseball field, hustling kids on the basketball courts, tutoring peers when they needed help, but I was still "bullied" by the group.
As far as special needs students getting the help they need, myself and others on the ends of the spectrum amount to so few that it wouldn't make sense to implement special programs. What will help is elevating the whole curve and recognizing reality for what it is. Intelligence is only one aspect of a successful life.
She nailed it with smart kids in school labeled as autistic or having adhd, most of those kids are just bored as piss and dont feel like theyre learning much in a classroom environment.
I took a further maths course in high school which the year group’s top 15 maths students were put on. Our teacher routinely told us we were a bunch of autists because only autistic kids could do maths so well. She was probably right though. I’ve been diagnosed as slightly spectral and I know at least three others from that class have subsequently been diagnosed with some sort of autism.
When I was 5, my teachers thought I was dumb af. They reckoned I’d fail the entrance exams to the local middle school because I wouldn’t learn normally. When my parents removed me from that school and enrolled me somewhere smaller, my new teachers recognised that they had to teach me differently from the other kids. Within 6 months I was doing lessons with the kids in the year above and I stayed ahead of the curve my entire education.
Sometimes it’s more about the teachers and less about the student. A good teacher understands what each student needs to thrive. Yet, too many teachers see kids as dumb because they fail to unlock their potential. God knows what my life would have been like if I’d have stayed at that school and never had talented teachers.
I got called lazy when I was uninspired to do the work all my life, then, at uni I met a teacher who deeply inspired me and gave me the time of day, who still thought I was lazy until I got top marks by the end of the semester since I finally had a reason to put in effort and learn/do the work, at which point I was considered their favourite student. As the comment above says, I also find it's more about the teacher being able to match with the student and understand/learn what kind of person they are, what makes them tick, and how to inspire them.
I lucked out and tested into a gifted county highschool I still was bored and didn't pay attention😂
What is this IQ you speak of, and where can I buy some?
seems like a side effect of books or other educational stimulus
You can download it, along with some ram.
@Blyatiful Chin that's interesting, I love Jordan Peterson!
@Blyatiful Chin well I know my 14-digit library card number, my DL number, used to know my debit card number but it changed, does that count lol? Although good at number memorization I'm terrible at math
@@mfThump largely genetic
I wonder why every one in this comment section is gifted
The universe attracts these "special" people to these videos.
They feel they need to belong ?
Because we all watch Rick and Morty
because we are all geniuses here.. even though it's statistically impossible.
Selection bias. "Gifted" people are likely to be interested in the experiences of gifted people, while "normal" people probably don't care enough to leave a comment.
I had an IQ of 146 but I think I drugged it away...
Well feels bad man , vllt einfach abstinenz mal 😂 bringt vllt etwas zurück
what did u use? I never thought that that's possible...
@@Lukaaas146 ya it is bro
What did you take?
Weed?
My in laws always tell me that I am autistic, so I never forget to remind them that I got it from them, which makes them happy and then we sit down and celebrate it.
This makes me feel a lot better about my ADHD. Thank you.
Another Hard Difficult Day
I would contend that the way this psychologist thinks without pictures actually is a disorder which is called aphantasia, not just a different thinking style. It's when there's a lack of connection between the occipital coretx and hippocampus.
This comment section is a goldmine.
I have an IQ of about 158. My hobbies include microwaving tinfoil and drinking things I find under the sink.
My IQ is 1.5 times higher than yours and I drink milo from the mixture of water and soil.
I got 158 for that block design subtest on the WAIS IQ test and 142-147 for perceptual reasoning but still manage to die in Minecraft by creepers. Fuck Minecraft and fuck IQ.
i had an iq of 155 as a child and 137 a few years back. that stuff under the sink be hitten mane
the jokes are understandable but for real like celebrating gifted children was the message, and I think that's pretty cool. I'd hate for some parents to be unable to help realize their child's full potential
I was a very precocious child with a highly gifted intellect and while it has its obvious advantages it has brought me a great deal of difficulty in my life, particularly in respect to relationships.
I have an above average IQ and it’s a pretty solid ego trap. Because I used it a lot of times to compensate for my low self esteem. When you’re a nerd and behave as a shy and socially awkward individual you engage in intellectualization and that bears a heavy risk to fall into the arrogance of intellect category. Though I’m pretty careful not to judge opinions based on the intellect of the person who utters it and though I believe that all people are a equal of worth I can’t deny that there is some portion of arrogance inside me. But apart from that I mostly got in insatiable thirst for knowledge. I could watch lectures of different academia topics such as neuroscience, physics, philosophy or psychology 24/7. Even when I’m talking a walk I’m listening to audiobooks with academic topics. It’s just who I am - it’s not something I’m doing to get attention. I just can’t help it, just like an addict.
Here we are, perusing through the commentary under a video about excessive IQ.
The very act leaves me confused about whether or not I have an enormous ego problem. On the one hand, it feels as though my curiosity has driven me to the point of mental exhaustion with no concern for personal advancement. But looking at it from the other side, it seems simply impossible _not_ to be arrogant while expressing any of the insights that my curiosity has fought to earn me.
At what point does self-reflection become self-indulgence?
@@pocket83squared Reading again this comment from two years ago - almost seems as if another person has written it! And though it is factual that I’ve tested above average and that people constantly keep saying to me how I’m “so knowledgeable and smart”, I feel ashamed for writing myself how “my” IQ is so above average. That’s exactly the reason I will not delete it (which was my first impulse). Which brings me to your question: You have to decide for yourself at what point self reflection becomes self indulgence. Your emotions will guide you in this process! If my comment triggered something inside of you it means at least that you’re uncertain about your ego. And this is a good thing. There’s a whole another world in the realm of emotions to be investigated by you! Learning about it will make you more complete as a person. I’ve always admired Richard Feynman and the way he was explaining physics. When you’re really absolutely invested in knowledge and knowledge alone, you may begin to sound something like him! Your comment sounds like it is coming from a genuinely curious person I believe that’s your way to go and I wish you good luck!
Same, and I kinda like it. Even if my intelect is ultimately useless, at least it provides me some kind of enterteiment
I have a pretty above average IQ never bring it up sometimes people will compliment that I'm really smart or something like that I'll say sometimes or I have my moments 😂
@ I meant it in a negative way, to be honest. If I had written the comment today, I’d have written it like this:
Almost all the people I come into contact almost always point out that I’m very smart. I’ve listened to sentences like this since I was a child. The problem is, when you become emotionally fragile at a certain point in your life you begin using this as a shield. And this becomes an ego trap.
I really appreciate your reply! Thank you 🙏
I hated school. It was painfully boring. My copping mechanisms were day dreaming elaborate adventures or scenarios. When i got bored of that i would fall asleep. I slept k-12. Since i was a nice polite kid teachers mostly just left me alone while i slept lol
@EpsilonGoods yes I am. And I’m special for having a high iq. Thank you for acknowledging me
@@jimmiferfreddette8583 your iq is only as good as the things you do with it
@jimmifer Freddette how old are you now?
@@petesake1181 32
Can you tell me some examples about the scenarios you imagined? I also daydream a lot
I Feel as if I’m gifted at times, and the other half of the time I just prove myself wrong HAHA
I may have an IQ of 80, but idgaf cuz it still takes sun light 4 minutes to reach the earth but only 5 seconds for me to light this blunt. WHOOP WHOOP!
Be smart. Keep your lungs healthy.
@@darbyl3872 oh wow. Now I have 10 whole seconds to get spliffed up and still be just as right as before.
@@thesupremeruleroftheunited8744 stfu idiot
It takes 8 minutes.
@@blorkpovud1576 they are too dumb to know that
Some people respond well to the kind of praise she talked about at the end, others don't. Spend your whole childhood getting told how smart or amazing you are only to enter into adulthood and being confronted with people smarter than you or who just work a lot harder than you and it's easy to not be able to cope with that. Or they can have no way to cope with failure because they were raised thinking their inherent qualities and attributes lead to success so when they fail it must also be due to who they are.
And you get more "normal" problems like they never had to try hard to succeed until later in school, in college, or even until they started working; thus they have no idea how to try and push themselves. Some people will overcome this, some won't.
I totally aced an IQ test once - got 100 😎
I was diagnosed with adhd and emotional issues so my school consultant gave me IQ test when I get my results in the mail it came out as 160 I was surprised because I hated school but I loved learning things that interest me.
I hate school too and 70 and history and physics, while being able to explain virtual universes and rise of the roman empire, it isn't simply crystalized knowledge I understand these subjects deeply. It is simply a matter of whether you prepare to tests or not, guess what I ain't gonna prepare for a test with no reason than getting high grades I'd rather read books about math than do a project. I'm in a gifted class (130+).
@@paulgabel1845 That does'nt make sense. Grammar has nothing to do with high IQ?
@@paulgabel1845 Capital letter to start, full stop to finish.
Grammar has nothing to do with high IQ. I'm sure Einstein wasnt the best at grammar. Usually your mind is too busy constructing multi-dimensional thoughts and images to care about putting an apostrophe in the right place so that a half wit who needs perfect grammar to understand something can follow along.
@@burstcity3832 lmao they were jus saying that if someone’s gon claim to be so smart that they can have basic grammar... paul never claimed to be Einstein mate
It's not actually fun being gifted. It's difficult to make friends because when you try to make conversation from your point of view, your thoughts don't mesh with others' thinking. Average people often don't understand our jokes. The IQ difference can be a formidable barrier to finding common ground. It's also difficult to find entertainment that's.... well.. entertaining. Pop culture doesn't do it, I find the best way to entertain myself is by learning new things. We're often shunned because we 'always have our nose in a book'... to be fair we're just trying to avoid the boredom that plagues us.
That's why I stopped being one.
You sound arrogant but you are suprisingly right
the world isn‘t made for geniuses, we can just sit and watch and do that surviving thing that people struggle with
Ah...wish you could magically transport in both time and space.... to my school during the 70s in America
I was soooooo board...ah...bored...out of my mind in elementary school, that I rebelled/stop doing work
...didn't work, still got 80% plus on exams, down from 95%+
Sloooooow mass assignments.. "wait patiently for the class"....Ah!!....30+ years later, it's still frustrating.
I'm not 145 IQ, rather 142...averaged over five exams over a twenty year span......low of 128, high was 158...estimated.
You and me both.
i can tell
Mensa is full of losers.
Use your high IQ to make a time machine, we all need one
I wonder if schools label gifted children with ADHD so that they don't have to think about tailoring the child's education to their unique abilities. When I was at school in the 90s I reckon a child that was constantly distracted like that would simply be labelled as lazy and berated for it.
People do not get rewarded for being different. They become outcasts in todays' schools.
@@bobjohnson1096 It's not just being different though. There's no reason why a priori you should be rewarded for being different. It's a failure to recognise and make the most of useful potential. In a crude sense it's failure to make use of resources. A kind of littering if you like. An "I can't be arsed to take my wrapper to that bin over there" attitude.
In some cases, possibly. I doubt the dismissal is deliberate in most cases - often teachers just aren't good at properly identifying kids that may have learning differences like giftedness or ADHD. Also, it's possible for gifted kids to have ADHD as well - as you implied,, there are several overlapping signs between the two, and for some kids, their giftedness hides their ADHD because it makes coping easier (until they reach a big enough challenge, such as college and beyond).
@@RianeBane Absolutely. It's tempting to clamp everything down and cut things into nice neat easily manageable chunks. People aren't like that though.
The trick I think, is to find the optimal cut off on the IQ scale and attempt to minimise the damage done to all on the scale of IQ. Hell if I know how to do that though 🤣
They can't even provide children of average intelligence with an adequate education in many states (I reside in the worst one) so they certainly can't to a gifted student
Everyone thinks a different way YET we are subjected to take the SAME standardized tests.
Yeah, that's why diffrent people score different in different tests???
I have an above average IQ. I was terribly bored in high school. Tons of discipline problems. I quit at 16. Retired at 44. No regrets for leaving school, it's a toxic environment for some folks.
Apparently duct- taping a banana onto the wall of an art-gallery is now a sign of "genius".
I scored a 143 on my IQ test, yet it really doesn’t change anything at all. I have topics and hobbies that i’m very interested in, and I believe i’m very well spoken in regard to those things, but I’ve never felt “intelligent” from it. In fact, one of my bad habits is questioning my brain on a damn near scheduled basis lol I have a pretty low self esteem, I have seizures from time to time, and my attention deficit is extremely annoying (most people think i’m hard of hearing because my focus makes it almost impossible to properly and actively listen). Really, what i’ve learned through it all is that your IQ does not define you. Having a high IQ doesn’t make you a doctor or scientist; having a low IQ doesn’t make you an idiot. A fish isn’t stupid for its inability to climb a tree.
Have a great day/night everyone! :)
best single possible comment of all time for a video re: high iq
You got that last part from Albert :)
Absolutely! I scored a 145 on mine as a child (though as you get older you gain or lose on average about 15 points since IQ quantifiers change on child vs adult). I've just lived my life just like everyone else. Granted, I've always been considered weird or unusual, but I've come to have a healthy appreciation for it. After all, if everyone was normal in the world, we would live in a very boring place.
Unless it’s the rare tree climbing fish.
This video was recommended to me. Therefore, I have an IQ of 145.
I have an IQ in the range of 145-170, and I am socially anxious, awkward, can't focus a lot of the time and overthink everything. Ignorance might be bliss after all.
Ignorance is bliss until fate catches up
@@marvinlang3777Undoubtedly true.
Why do you think that your struggles comes from your IQ?
@@Kwadratura It’s convenient, even as a feigned affirmation.
Being "diagnosed" with a higher intelligence is not a gift, the intelligence might be a gift, but knowing that you are supposed to be better or overachieve what the rest does, hurts.
I literally thought it was normal to never think in images until I spoke about this to my girlfriend. The thought that there's people out there that can develop an image in their mind and then paint or draw that image is amazing to me, which is not to say I don't think I couldn't paint or draw at an average level but I can only put together a concept of an image in my mind, I can't say what it would actually look like as a finished product.
Wonder if this affects things like the visual fidelity of dreams, real weird.
There's a condition called aphantasia, which is basically that people can't imagine things in their head visually. For example, if I were to say: think of an apple, people with aphantasia would know what that means, but that's it. People without that condition can visualise the roundness of the apple, the little leaf, the glowing green/red skin, etc.
@@fabianvanderelst9643 That's absolutely wild, I'm positive I have this too some degree.
Thankfully I don't feel like it's ever affected my ability to learn or understand information but frankly I'm a bit jealous people can visualize information like that. It's strange that I clearly possess some type of capability to visualize environments, people, and objects though because I still do have dreams but I don't seem to be able to consciously visualize any of those things, outside of maybe recalling a specific memory.
@@cheshur6550 wow, yeah, when I saw your comment that was my immediate thought, that's why I wrote it :)
Maybe it's worth looking up a bit about those things, and see how it can work out positively for you :)
I found out two years ago, while sucking at architecture that I might have ADD, and indeed, I got diagnosed with it by a psychologist. I used to hate, and still do, when I'm reminded of that, but now I'm trying to just embrace it, and find the benefits of that. Yes, I may suck at concentrating, but on the other hand, when I'm doing something cool, I can hyperfocus, and especially at work this comes in handy. I love my job, and I feel like sometimes I'm capable of much more than the rest. However, this makes me tired me way faster, and then it doesn't work like that anymore. But generally speaking, I may have a terrible time working hard on random things, but when there's things I like, people are often stunned about how insane my drive is, and how in the everloving shit I remember some things and such.
What I'm trying to say: go for it, I'm sure not being able to visualise things has a huge advantage somewhere that you can fully use! :)
In any case, don't let an internet stranger like me tell you anything, best to check everything for yourself :)
I was labeled with ADHD as a kid and later told I was really smart but by that time the damage is done. For years I thought I was stupid and I lost my self confidence. Idk if I ever got it back
@@jjjj-x9g Math is not something you are either capable or not capable of for the rest of your entire life. Maths are just concepts. You can learn anything you want
Coulda used this about 40 years ago.
I think it’s more complicated than the way she describes it. This is a very simplistic way of looking at it.
Well... the UA-cam audience is pretty simplistic 😂
I am smart enough (borderline above average) to appreciate really smart people. There are a couple of people at my work that should really not be working there that can figure things out easily. For example setting up the tube bender with more than four bends and having to adjust it so the part comes out within tolerance. We obviously take notes but sometimes the tubes stretch differently from the previous times and require adjustments. That's when you have to visualize where to make the adjustments. It can be very frustrating because it is so easy to visualize incorrectly.
Well the hydraulic tube bender with measurements that I use does the job well. What type you guys use?
Borderline above average? .. soo just average then yeah
thank you Fiona and Femke
Very interesting. When I was 4 years old, I was tested by Dr. Jizz Hazam on one of the most rigorous IQ tests and scored a 451 with a standard deviation of 15. I always knew that I was in the 400 range because while my 300 IQ counterparts could remember 100,000 digits of pi in 2 seconds, I could remember 1,000,000 in a fraction of that time. And if you want to talk to me about how memory does not correlate to intelligence, then I'm just going to say that I discovered an abstract and difficult pattern that when explained to the best mathematicians, all they could do was scratch their head in wonder. I was just 4. Now I'm 79 and I'm going to destroy the Earth when I turn 80 with my inventions.
there there calm down
I believe this..
Strange, I was tested by Jizz Dickerson and his cousin Jam Spunkerson.
Dr Jizz Hazam is awesome! I was tested by his cousin. Dr. Jaccoff Splooge. My IQ was only 273.
idk about you guys, but I'm happy with my 120. I'm smart enough to feel good about myself and dumb enough to blend in with normal people.
120 is actually the most optimal iq you can have to help you achive well being, no more no less, so you're lukcy
Me looking out of window in class cuz im bored :
Yeah sometimes im genious myself
I pretty much think 3-dimensionally. Thinking in words is too slow, I don't understand how someone can do that effectively. So when I'm thinking I unfocus my eyes/look at something that won't distract me, then I use the visual part of my brain to create a 3-dimensional world with the physical rules that I need and the parts I need to be able to "create" whatever I'm thinking about. I can zoom in and out instantly to whatever part I need to examine. It's great for understanding complex ideas and structures and for remembering events (for example a chess-game can be "stored" as a 3-dimensional moving object. If I want to know what was done on move 10 I just play back the movement of the object in my head until I get to the point I need). It makes me kind of slow sometimes when I talk though, since I have to "translate" my thoughts into words.
@@heartsfear9216 I believe so. I think that people just fall into habits when they think, they start using one technique to "solve" thinking, then they get stuck. I had bad eyesight and didn't get glasses until I was 13 years old or somewhere around that time. I believe this is why I "evolved" into this way of thinking. My visual centre in the brain was "free" to do the thinking, so it was the part of my brain I started using the most. Bad eyesight and being bored = creating visual worlds inside ones head. If someone just force themselves into doing this, they will eventually become pretty good at it.
@@heartsfear9216 If I put any time into it I believe I would be a good artist, but it's not my passion, so it's hard for me to not get bored too quickly. I enjoy painting pictures where you will see different things depending on how you focus your eyes. Kind of like a rorschach, just not as abstract. I struggled with understanding how to read and write, it just seemed totally illogical to me, but once I cracked the code that I had to use a different part of my brain it became easy. I'm "bi-lingual" when it comes to how I use my brain, it's just that visual is my primary language. I still struggle with keeping on top of anything that is "paperwork" though, it's not natural to me and it just seems so slow and ineffective.
@@heartsfear9216 I'm sadly not in a profession, I'm on disability. The closest thing is that I coach youth-football (soccer). It suits me well, I get to use the fact that I can "see" the complex structure of every movement of 22 players simultaneously over a prolonged period of time in my head to design drills that is actual cutouts of situations that occur or we want to occur often during a match etc. I get payed some money for it, but it's far from a "profession".
@@heartsfear9216 I'm norwegian, and I used to know how to code back in the day. I have very limited energy and is pretty much totally wiped out after a session as a coach. Doing that 4 times a week leaves me with sleeping, eating and being able to keep my apartment tidy and being social a couple of times pr month. It's not ideal, but I'm not on disability for no reason :)
How could I not notice that I'm practically a 200 IQ genius in disguise?
I was gifted as a child; my father beat the piss out of me for not performing well in sports and not getting along in school. I am now a disabled alcoholic.
So I got scored a 142 iq in the Mensa test, but, in order to prove that, I played dozens of mind games with another high iq relative of mine, with an iq of 156 tested by another professional psychologist, so him and I played dozens of mind games, riddles, puzzles, competing one to one and being in par with him in every single challenge and relating to that of not paying attention to class and failing in school, i draw to the conclusions that my iq was actually that high. But in all honesty, i fiercely believe that intelligence cannot be quantified nor measured by any tool, and people shouldn't limit their intelligence to iq but go beyond that label since the brain has the necessary elements to do that, in case you're feeling intimidated by so called "intellectuals".
How did they come up with the average IQ is 100 when everybody I talk to has a 140+ IQ. Interesting.
I also scored 173 in mensa but they didn't give me a membership nor a card or my report. That website is a scam.
@@AllenWoody-kj7sc I possess a Mensa-verified IQ of 135. Among my acquaintances, one has achieved a remarkable 145+ score in real life, while another online connection has demonstrated a 142 on the same cognitive assessment.
Simply observe in the right context; evaluate others by closely scrutinizing their reasoning speed (distinct from reaction speed), their working memory capacity, and their propensity for innovation.
@@memerduckyThe Mensa test doesn’t score for an IQ of that magnitude…
@@AnOntologicalOpponent y’all crack me up. Even the retards on this site have IQs over 140. It’s a miracle! 😎
My IQ is 127, and I often find that I grasp things faster than others. As a result, I tend to have little patience for questions I consider obvious.
The downside is that I have a tendency to overthink things.
I also took a test while young and scored over 140, they ended up giving me the choice to either stay in my current grade or skip 2 grades to get challenging work (this was 6th grade at the time) I chose to stay in current grade of course, too many reasons to even list. But maybe I think thats why people with higher IQs tend to dislike school, I feel maybe if I had a more challenging school life and if I focused more on excelling studies instead of keeping my friends maybe I would have liked it more.
For reference today I am a Data Engineering Lead at a well known company, i never graduated college and my gpa in high school was little above 2.0, i am also self taught, no accolades to speak of 😂 I also have bipolar disorder and I am sure I have ADHD but never formally tested for it
@Luce M I enjoy programming and do it regularly as a hobbby, its my passion in life so I already quite the resume when I applied to my first job, it was also a startup. The experience there got me my 2nd job, also a startup. Both jobs had me leading teams by the 2 yr mark, so I had lead experience by the time I got a job as a Data Eng. Lead
I like your avatar.
That's funny because faced with the same choice, I took the other path, yet still ended up in similar circumstances to yourself. I entered high-school one year ahead, but after scoring above 150 on an IQ test, they skipped me ahead another 3 years and put me into year 11 at 12 years old. It destroyed my social life because we also moved just before I started high-school; so I didn't have any of my old friends, and I had very little opportunity to make new friends given that I was 12 years old and everyone was 16 in my classes (+ the stigma/bullying for being a "genius" - even though I tried to hide from everyone that I was doing classes 4 years ahead).
Fast-forwarding - I derped around after high-school, did well in college but ended up taking 2 years off and haven't graduated yet. I discovered programming and it became my passion as well; I'm fully self-taught and am working as a full-stack web developer now.
@@zeusthunderchad thats good to hear man. Very happy to hear programming is your passion as well, a field that will never die!
What's your favorite trick at parties?
We can visualise things in an area we are gifted in. Thats the thing that makes us gifted in one area and not another.
I have an IQ of 172, but all my teachers were stupid and so they ruined my life. ..... Now, I'm a democrat.
Brilliant!
That’s where all the democrats come from!
Interesting, at 1:04 she talks about not thinking in images. It was only a few years ago that I learned other people *can* actually see things when they 'imagine' ... which kind of makes since given the word 'image'.
@@donthesitatebegin9283 I see, I think.
I don't form images, the condition has a name:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
I was well over 60 years old when I discovered that other people can actually see things they imagine. Again kind of a duh moment considering that image is the base of imagination.
Turns out that most of us having brains that work (or not) that way are technical people. I have always run algorithms through my imagination (which for me are thoughts). I have no idea what it would be like to understand algorithms visually which is probably why I detest whiteboard exercises, which fortunately I am old enough to have not been subjected to.
Her language is just faulty. There is no evidence that people can't imagine things, because it would mean they have no visual memory, which if true, would be apparent from MRI studies. What she means is that she thinks verbally, but that's all thinking is: verbal processing of information in preparation to speak or write. Nobody "thinks in pictures", because imagination and visual memory recollection is not thinking; it's just imagination and memory recall, which are processes unrelated to speech. But because people describe it as "thinking in pictures" and she doesn't know that that's not a real thing, she takes it literally that other people have a capacity that she lacks. It's one of those lost in translation moments.
The same problem exists with people thinking they don't have a mental voice. People have falsely described this as an "internal dialogue" or a "internal narrative", but that's not what it actually is. For example, I don't get up and think, "I'm rising from the bed now, I'm taking one step with my right leg, one step with my left leg", etc., (monologue narrative), nor do I hear a third person narrative voice describing everything I do, nor do I carry on conversations with a voice I hear in my head (dialogue). But because people use these misleading misnomers, there are people who take their meanings literally and think that they don't have a mental voice; i.e. the mental recollection and structuring of words to convey meaning in preparation to speak. We ALL do that; it's an inherent trait. We all make mental lists of things to do or things to say.
It's literally impossible to not have an internal voice, because you can't form words without first recalling and thinking them; the mental activity precedes and directs the physical activity, even if you're speaking as you think, because even with direct information-to-speech, you're still recalling knowledge of words and grammar from memory that embody the meaning you're trying to convey. If you can recall a phone number without speaking it, or a word or sentence without speaking it, then you have an internal voice. Nobody lacks that; if they did, they would be incapable of speech. There are MRI studies that back this up, yet people still continue to perpetuate this myth that there are people without an internal voice, because they get hung up on the literal meaning of a misnomer.
@@BatEatsMoth "There is no evidence that people can't imagine things...'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
Creative, emotional, and social intelligence can triumph over IQ in a variety of areas.
I met someone in my youth that had all 4 very close to top of the chart, He was amazing to be around!
The power of the number is not in the IQ, it's in the lowest common denominator. Dumbness tends to prevail over everything. Still, smart people are fun to be around.
@Petri Creativity is very much related to IQ tho.
@Petri Bruh, are you serious?
I am at 145 and I also have no natural visual though. I thought I was a freak and I spent a significant amount time trying to cultivate that ability. I draw, more as an adolescent, I had “knowledge of how it would look but no reference to it in my mind. Often, I was surprised the final product of each line. 🤷🏻♂️
Autism is not a disability. The opposite - it is an increased ability. That's why autistic people have heightened neuroplasticity...
For those who are gifted, i guess. But those with severe autism, I don’t see how its not a disability.
That's highly circumstantial. For the autistic people with average or low iq, autism is nothing but a nuisance that effects social communication among other things.
Exactly because it's considered a disability, that's why we don't have a proper system for developing the abilities of autistic children. There is another video with a story of a father of autistic kid (boy), who used to hurt himself and behave like very disabled. Until they brought him to some very good expert, who told the parents of a special place for autistic kids, in very peaceful and noise free atmosphere. They brought the boy there for a while and suddenly he started to develop normally and to exhibit higher (then normal) abilities. I think that all autistic kids have the ability to develop better than neurotypical kids, but most of them are into improper environments. These kids are very sensitive and whatever might not make impression as anything special for a neurotypical person, can be terrifying for autistic child. They cannot cope with too much data from the surroundings and often get sensory overload, as their brains are too sensitive for what we consider 'normal life'. But under the right circumstances, these sensitive brains can reach better understanding on many subjects...
Heightened neuroplasticity can be disadvantageous for you as well. For example, you are more likely to develop addiction on neurological level . Overplasticity is not good either
Thank you for the wonderful piece of info that truly help anyone in any point in life.
Thank you so much for this video.
This lady gave no good proof to believe her, but the comments brought life and hope to me.
I have half a dozen degrees from basic bachelors through to a doctorate - and I am unemployed. Apparently I am a pale, stale and male... where is my privilege? Never experienced it - all I experienced was profound boredom in class, at university and at work. Why, because people resent you when they know you are smarter than them - and you keep having to literally hold yourself back from being the person who speaks up and has ideas. It's a frigging nightmare. What's worse, I have practical qualifications, forklift driver etc - which I am happy to do because I can stay with my own thoughts, happy - but people see my CV and won't hire me "you'll just find something better and leave" - to where? I am pale, stale and male... overqualified and they figure I want more money etc... in sciences they will always employ someone else than me - female bc - need more women in engineering... yeah right - so I am on the slag heap...
You seem too qualified to be employed. Luckily employment isn't the only way to make your money :)
You should try self-employment. Starting a business. You could also try toning down your CV. List your bachelor's and job experience.
Got your degrees in what? Russian Lit aint gona help.
@@jbw6823 Biotechnology - but apparently there aren't enough women in SMART positions so I am residual.
@@hariseldon3786 where r u? My nephews a director at genetech in the bay area.
The title of the video says "Psychologist Fiona Smith about a 145 + IQ", but in the video, she doesn't say a word about people with 145 IQ or more, or about how they can be different from those in the 130-144 range.
I have a IQ of 155 and use eloquent terms like Penile Mucus and Butt Coughing.
Not meming since people will automatically think so. I haven't taken an official iq test. I really need to because i feel like i will either score low or very high. I think entirely different then anyone i've ever meant and i seem to have a very hard time with simple tasks but with more complex things it becomes easier. I noticed a pattern with simple tasks I almost subconsciously add steps that don't make sense and can make me panic when it keeps happening. I can't explain other things because I have no idea how to describe other thought patterns.
i have a 130 IQ and I'm stupid
I feel u bruh. Mine is 145 & one time my mom ask what do I want for breakfast & I told her the normal white thingy with yellow dot in the middle. Its like I woke up forgetting the word 'egg' exists. Wtf😂😂
That’s because intelligent people are aware of how much there is that we don’t know and we often focus on that whereas lower IQ people are more contained in the small fraction of knowledge that they have and are sometimes even impressed with it. I mean I think that but also WTF do I know? 🤣🤣
I determined the IQ test was faulty and therefore incapable of determining the true excessivenes of my IQ.
I have an iq of 140, in a member of Mensa and I still can’t do mental arithmetic😂
Math has nothing to do with your IQ. Also IQ is highly flawed in so many ways. Its a pseudoscience. Try to not think about your "IQ", Try instead to think about your ability to solve problems and think in unique ways. That is what matters, really. I have an IQ over 140 as well according to tests, and still struggle weekly doing grade school arithmetic in my head. That has more to do with my age I think, and drug use. My mind was lightning fast as a child/young adult, and I have slowed it down a bit. Still fast but not like it was. Also, I do not sleep well.
@@SolidSiren IQ best predicts sucess in life and in all the hardest professions people have high IQ
@신비 nah false, every math genius has high iq.
@@Hbmd3E family dynamic best predicts future success. IQ measures your ability to learn and apply concepts, it tests nothing about confidence, wealth, social grace or drive, all of which are factors. Also, success is a poorly defined term. Jeff Bezos has most of the money in the world and his wife still left him. Is he successful?
@@NWPaul72 Seems right what you say. Also you can be evil genious like Albert Pike. Then there is also wisdom that is different than IQ. IQ would be like computing power/memory in computer. Wisdom is something that has kinda divine aspect to it.
But someways IQ test is best predictor in narrow sense. Probably there is lots of high IQ people that dont be succesful but all who occupy surtain places have it high, like professors. Accomblishing difficult tasks fast you need in lawyers and so on.
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Fantastic video, what beautiful insight.
My son has recently been diagnosed with Autism. I have a tested IQ of 142 and my partner although not tested has always been gifted also. Growing up, a lot of concessions were made for me as a child that weren't made for other children to accommodate my learning, I never understood why but my son's diagnosis makes me question whether I was diagnosed and it has been kept from me as to not make me feel different to others. I have always had difficulty fitting in. Then I question my son's diagnosis, perhaps he is just bored, perhaps I was just bored. I am unsure as to whether it would be advantageous to get tested myself.
What is known about being autistic has changed a lot very recently, so it is possible you went under the radar throughout school, etc, you just didn't fit the very narrow set of official criteria. If you are looking into whether or not you have an autistic neurotype, I'd recommend finding some channels on UA-cam lead by autistic people sharing their own experiences, and researching things like monotropism that has been seen to correlate with the autistic experience as well, although it isn't specific to autistic neurotypes. My reason for this is because the official criteria for 'diagnosing autism' is still lagging behind quite a lot, so you may not feel you relate to the official, neurotypical lead external observations that you would find through many diagnostic routes, despite having your experiences relate to what many other autistic people describe theirs as.
From what I've seen, the autistic community is very welcoming of anyone who self-identifies with being autistic without any formal 'diagnosis'. Unfortunately the focus on autistic children through most formal diagnostic routes means there is little in the way of support for autistic adults, despite having/being an autistic neurotype not being something that is grown out of, just traumatised into masking heavily. On the flip side, having a formal 'diagnosis' can limit you in some specific situations, for example, I believe you can't move to Australia, from the UK at least, if you are formally/officially identified as autistic, as their out-of-date criteria suggests concerns for using more resources in medical care, etc as reasons for refusing (I think, I'm trying to recall 3rd party info from memory).
I'd recommend channels like 'I'm Autistic, Now What' and 'Orion Kelly - That Autistic Guy'. I feel they've been good for my own exploration anyway. There are more but I can't recall their channels right now. You may find that simply researching and relating to others' experiences is enough to help you understand your son and yourself better, and that that's enough to satisfy the feelings you have/were having for a formal recognition for yourself. I only looked at when you commented (2 years ago) there in that last sentence, but I'll post this reply anyway in case you're still pondering the idea. If you are autistic, it is probably still on your mind in some form. :)
Do you think there might be a connection between autistic neurotype and high IQ?
@@markwright3161Aucademy
@@clarkbowler157 Probably not. The IQ test gets shifted to match the population over time so the average stays around 100 depending on the country's education system if I'm remembering correctly. The channel 'Veritasium' has a video on the IQ test. It is based on a more neurotypical demographic, and there's suggestion floating around that autistic individuals average slightly higher by 2 or 3 points, but as knowledge on the autistic neurotype develops, and a significantly larger portion of the population relates to it, that could change as it was based off an increasingly small portion of the group.
Autistic people generally have what's known as a more 'spikey' skill set too. This means that where a neurotypical may be 'average' across several fields, topics or specific tasks, an autistic individual could average across those same fields, topics or tasks very similarly in approximate overall skill 'value', but appear to have a far greater knowledge of and/or ability in one of those fields, topics or tasks, but then also have significantly more difficulty in another relative to the neurotypical.
I'm trying to recall from memory as I can't remember the channel that covered this more accurately than I can, but a possible example could be a neurotypical in an office relating to financial stuff or something. They can type relatively quick, operate various types of software, answer the phone, talk through the various stuff with others in person, on the phone, in emails, etc all at a similar level, but an autistic person could excel in the financial calculations (apologies for the stereotypical topic, it's just what came to mind as an easier example to have a go at explaining) at a level far beyond colleagues, but be significantly slower at typing or have difficulty explaining how the various calculations relate to one another to another person over the phone or in an email, etc. If you need the figures quickly, boom, you have them, but if you want an explanation of how to calculate them yourself, you better understand the technical language or go somewhere else. They could speak in the technical language all day long for their given interest, but ask for a 'simplified' version and you might not get the break down of information you were hoping for. It's not that they don't understand it in 'simple' terms, it just doesn't click in their mind like that.
Of course, this is only one example and every person is significantly different. An area many autistic people notice an odd response from neurotypicals is when they could have mastered a 'complex' task or topic, but struggle with performing some 'basic' tasks like tying stuff like laces, string, etc or preparing 'basic' food items. As a result, determining 'intelligence' level or something else like that can be very difficult. Are they a genius because of the topic(s) they excel at or cognitively limited for the more 'basic' stuff they can't do, where someone recognised as neurotypical has those peaks and troughs in ability much closer to their average.
There are definitely gaps in what I'm remembering when I look at those examples, so definitely try to find another video on it. A channel like 'Autistamatic' might be where I saw it but I'm really not sure.
My human brain is so large it is unattractive to other human beings... Of Wich I am also one... A human being.
Being intelligent is normal. 90% of joes think they are smarter than the average Joe. Joe studies physics, and can perform complex sets of tasks in sequence like role a spliff while high
Dunning Kruger effect
When people say they only think in images or only think in words. I don’t understand because I can do both. In fact I can visualize words on my ceiling or wall. Or do math. I was profoundly bored in all of k-12 aka adhd in college really it was just the torture of a non challenging curriculum.
I get you.
I think most people are BRILLIANT but that is suppressed often due to societal standards and "norms". Anti intellectualism is consistent with modernity. Seems we've fooled ourselves into thinking without thinking.
@Multorum Unum Agreed. People have traded there ability to think for "science"..
Most people aren't brilliant. Most people never do anything creative in their lifetime. Most people never go somewhere intellectually challenging in their lifetime. It's sad, but it's reality.
What if they just follow norm because they aren't brilliant ?
@@boskonikolic8961 MOST people aren't challenged intellectually or influenced creatively from the time they're born. They are taught fear! Some of us suffer enough to know better but surely everyone can't be blamed for their ignorance. They can only "pray" they wake up. I consider myself lucky.
I know how to use redstone in minecraft, I think it's fair to say that I'm built different
My IQ is at least 800, she's ok but I doubt she could get in the interplanetary space university that I attend to at Mars. Harvard and MIT were just my safety schools. I also finished all seasons of Rick and Morty in one sitting, therefore explaining my soaring levels of intelligence.
I was so smart that I convinced all my teachers that I was bored with the content and failing because it was so basic.
We need to bring chess into schools again
I love playing chess , but I only have one friend he knows how to play darn it!
@@davidwirth2716 what’s your rating?
@@cuteshrek5927 No rating , but played a lot as a teenager , but that was 40 years ago. A friend recently gave me a glass chess set and I was able to play a few games with him and enjoyed playing again. Thanks for asking , are you rated?
@@davidwirth2716 Not through fide or USCF but I play online. My rating is around 1500 with a standard deviation of about 50-60.
I would actually have 3 lessons week for chess if I was the principle.
True Genius terrifies the pretentious walkers of knowledge.
Alway have and always will.
Well as Judge Smails said in Caddyshack, " The world needs ditch digger's too Danny."
One of the smartest men I've ever met was a janitor at my kids school. He never reached his potential because he was never recognised or supported properly as a kid, but he had made peace with it and would read up on quantum mechanics at home. He loved knowing that what he was doing was literally making kids lives better. Intention and impact.
@@MountainMaid238 Sure , lots of people who may have not gotten the best education etc.. , but when you talk to them , they are actually very mart and take pride in their work and provide a great service to others .Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
I'm dyslexic and have a very hard time with spelling, but I also have the ability to retain everything I learn.
I worked with a Fijian guy who’s resume stated that he had entered just about every Australian maths / science competitions and had been top 1% in all.
He also later told me he had been approached to do an IQ test and upon results had been offered membership to some group because of it (can’t remember the name of the group).
I was technically his boss and I would often write and send emails for him with scanned documents and I remember him often correcting my spelling ( he had only learnt English 6 months prior and already spoke 4 other languages).
It kind of annoyed me that he had such a menial job as he was capable of so much more but he was such a humble, well-adjusted family guy that didn’t let any silly politics or behavior bother him in the slightest. He as a human being was superior to me in everyway and I often thought if everyone was similar to this guy the world would be far better.
Sooo you are a fan of eugenics?
@@jimmyfallon2484 I think that process happens naturally to an extent as people select mates, well less desirable traits are not so much bred out but sorted to a higher extent leaving a greater divide in humans in society these days. There is a broad range of traits in people that are required for functional societies and sometimes people who do have what we call less desirable traits possess certain qualities that are required in different circumstances.
Good topic for discussion as even as I write I'm pulled in different directions as to my opinion on the topic.
Hello Math, your story touched my heart. I suddenly crying like a baby at midnight. I feel like you are a thoughful boss.
About myself, I think my intellectual level is just above average (worldwide). My teacher said that I'm still one of the top intelligent individuals in my country, my problem is I have no competitive attitude. I'm not in the right place I'm supposed to be. So maybe the Fijian guy you're talking about have been through same problem like me because of the living environment.
I'm highly self-contained individual. I... don't know how to ask for help. And one things I realised lately in my life, that I'm still need mentor. You may think that because he's smart, he can know the right things to do with his career. But maybe not. IQ is the indicator to measure how fast and accurate a person react to non-human objects. That's it. He may learn things faster. But he may have no idea about the other other jobs. You can hire and train him. That can be the best investment in your life. 😊
"your parents know their child best, if they think nothing is wrong with you, they're probably right"
my parents who think depression is "the thing when you get old and forget stuff": lmao yea my child is fine
schools who didn't notice neither adhd nor depression: "lmao what a lazy kid"
I wish I had a friend with that high IQ so I could see what it is like firsthand.
We shal be vriends then
Beor Smith you don’t type like you have high IQ
@@jaykay2218 He could have high spatial IQ and low verbal IQ or isnt a native English speaker. Just saying. Lol
Its shit, promise
I am kid (13) but l am more intelegent than other kid's, l know a lot of things for a example: animals, very smart people... and becuse l am in Bossnien l speak Englis. You can better think, faster read, better memory, better senses...
I have an IQ of 674 and I often have trouble squeezing through doorways because my head is the size of a blimp
I can't form visual memories of people's faces. it's taken my whole life for me to actually realise this.
Sorry to hear.
Same here.
Thank you! Looking out the window, looking at the images in my head - that was me in school and it frustrated teachers and they seemed to think I had a problem, but i just had no interest in most of what they were talking about or I already understood it.
Seems like everybody on the comments have a
i mean, u don't click on that title just because...
You mean >
With 24k views that would not be an unreasonable assumption.
Most of the commenters are probably angry individuals who didn't score as high as they think they should, or people of above average intelligence who seem to think they are geniuses.
I have an IQ of 145 and I can breathe from my nose and my mouth at the same time.