I am a 23 year old female with a IQ of 76. Ask me anything

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    4 days ago

    Do you think that there is like an opposite to the Dunning/Kruger effect were really smart people think of them selves as dumber than they really are

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      I’ve tended to score suspiciously high on most aptitude/iq type tests my entire life (70s kid, among the earliest ADD diagnoses, etc) and tbh i think I am quite a lot dumber than those tests imply.

      Show of hands all y’all “talented and gifted” kids that never did nuthin …

      *edit: to be clear, I don’t think ‘raw intelligence’ or anything similar necessarily confers a lot of life benefits. It can, but doesn’t always or maybe even most of the time.

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      53 days ago

      Absolutely, though I wouldn’t say it’s an opposite Dunning/Kruger, just that smart people are further along the x-axis.

      Having the knowledge to understand how much you don’t know is both a blessing and a curse.

      The curse: It is hard to project a true sense of authority, because to yourself, you do not believe you’re competent enough.

      The blessing: humility. You understand that everyone fits on the graph somewhere.