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.
First of all, I'm not the one who started the conversation.

Secondly, someone would need to have a low IQ to be unable to recognize that mine is high. I'm not exactly sure that I've ever shared the specific result of my only proctored test on the Forums before for exactly the reason that you're pointing out. Furthermore, I'll be the first to admit that, having only ever taken one proper IQ test, variance might have been on my side...or I could have just been having a really good day. Perhaps my IQ shouldn't have ever been 163 at all (which it almost certainly IS NOT now, if it ever was), but the average of three tests would have put me in the high-140's or somewhere in the 150's anyway. Who knows? I recall being pretty peak that day...it was during the Summer, so I wasn't bogged down with work and school and only had my job to worry about, so I was generally very well rested.

Anyway, you're not elucidating anything for me or anyone here when you say, "IQ isn't everything." If I'm in the 99.99x% range for IQ, then I must be in the 99.99999----(?) range for laziness! I'm probably also playing solitaire with one or two missing.

Honestly, you seem to have an inferiority complex on this one---almost as if you can't stand for some of the folks here to be superior to you in just one capacity. Have you ever had a proper IQ test? I figure the majority of the participants on gambling forums, at least as well as I can guess, would be on the high side of average; typically higher. To have an interest in gambling beyond the mere act of gambling, even for the idiots who come up with betting systems that they somehow believe in, requires a keen interest in how things work together---which would be probabilities, payouts and variance (generally speaking) in the case of gambling.

I would also say, and this is with all due respect, that you're the only participant who seems to have any problem with IQ being the topic.

Garnabby---For this post (excluding this line)-Estimated IQ: 128 (High Intelligence)---I don't see too many big words above. Truce?