Originally Posted by accountinquestion View Post
Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
I have a relative, my mother's uncle, so I guess that is a great uncle. He lives in South Jersey, retired now. He was valedictorian of his high school. Not a big school. I think someone said just over 100 students in his graduating class. He went to a major east coast university, not Ivy league or anything, but a well known major university where he was valedictorian of his college class of over a thousand (this was 50 years ago or so). I don't know his IQ...never asked, but don't need to to know he is the smartest person I have ever encountered.

After graduating college, he went home to his small town in New Jersey and worked in a car wash. He managed that car wash for 40 years for a high school classmate that didn't go to college. Book smart and high IQ isn't everything.

I'll give you another example, right here in the gambling community, right on this forum. Not to pick on anybody, but there is a guy, that occasionally posts on this forum, usually after a holiday weekend, although we were spared over Xmas and New Years and seemingly MLK weekend. So this guy is about my age, a bit younger and plays blackjack for a living here in Vegas. He has a college education, and I am told is very smart. That hasn't translated into a great deal of success with his card counting career.

Gambling smarts and knowledge and understanding the gambling industry and how things work is a whole different thing that book smart and high IQ's. This is a gambling forum (supposedly). That is what I am interested in. You guys wanting to compare IQs just seems like a a bit of a Napolean Complex to me. After telling everyone how high your IQ is what is next? Oh wait, we have already been subjected to that.
Ugh.

You're not going to get very far in life if you don't have a reasonable IQ. IQ correlates VERY HIGHLY to a general success in life. Those people with the very highest IQs are often not very functional. Often some form of mental illness comes with those types of IQs.

You sit here and tell everyone how they're wrong for comparing IQs (as if that is really happening) then you start to lecture us by your own comparisons. You just work from a different angle but your IQ isn't high enough for you to be aware of this.

I can give you a counter example about the 1 person I know on this forum personally. Perfect SAT score and played in biggest poker games at the time AFAIK. Beat cash games to get there. (No high variance tournament lick) Gee, could a high IQ have to do with both !?!?

Me personally I have no clue what my IQ is but I'm not near as functional as people in my HS who I believe had lower IQs. The #1 and #2 from my HS both went to Harvard and I'm pretty sure my IQ was higher than either of them. I'd bet money they would have agreed. Does that mean I'm smarter than them? Nah. They had a more broadly functional intelligence. Sure I can do weird math problems but I sucked at school and pretty much everything else academic. Depressed, liked to drink too much, various other issues. No wonder I haven't really ever amounted to much in particular, but I still live well for what little work I do. This wouldn't be the case if I had a middling IQ.

Likewise I'm sure many people on here have a higher IQ than me.
I put these two posts, yours and the one of mine that you quoted, into this so called IQ "estimator".

Yours received an above average of 105. Mine an above average of 102. Since you are obviously much smarter than I, why don't you tell me what conclusions you draw from that.

Furthermore, I put posts from Mission146 and Mickeycrimm from the slavery thread. Mission received a 99 and mickey an 85. I am not sure why mickeys was so low, he probably said something that the biased "estimator" viewed as racist.

I would put either Mission or mickey as smarter than I, especially gambling smarts, which is all I really care about on this forum.

So, this is all a bunch of nonsense, started by Garnabby of all people that YOU are running with and choosing to judge people by.

I don't use a spell check when I post. About half of my posts are done on my phone and my phone has an auto-correct feature that changes words to something not typed that make no sense. I also frequently capitalize something that shouldn't be or vice versa and insert comma (and overuse quotations). I see these things. Sometimes I will correct something, sometimes I let it go. I usually just don't care.

But for fun I took one of my post, and cleaned up some of the grammar, misspellings, punctuation and according to the estimator, my IQ jumped 18 points. I am aware of these things, I just don't care. I am making a point on a gambling forum, not writing a term paper. You are using this nonsense to be judgmental and draw conclusions about people's intelligence.....biased opinions about people you have decided you don't like. Just stop. Go back to being a somewhat normal poster.