Virtual Ignorance?

You are absolutely amazing. There are more misstatements and assumptions in this response than I could possibly have time to address.

Seriously, I'd put you on ignore if your BS wasn't so amusing at times.

I've noticed that smarter people usually have a good idea of how smart they are compared with others while less smart people tend to believe themselves to be coming off as more clever than they in fact are.

It looks like it could be good. (I insist on intelligent protagonists though.)

Why thank you. I feel exactly that way about you. *big hug*.

One of the things I enjoy about this forum is that there all kinds of different areas of expertise. I learn new things, about all kinds of subjects, fairly often.

There goes the neighborhood.

QFT

Pep (Smart people also know how dumb *they* really are as well - even when no-one else notices, heheheh!)

Smart people are probably better at hiding their mistakes. (They're also better at rationalizing their emotional responses to things.)

It actually works more like a bell curve in that the vast majority of people score in the 90-110 range, with substantially smaller numbers the higher and lower you go.

"Half" of all people are not below 100, nor are "Half" 100 and above. Its more like "More than Half" are around 100, and "Less than Half" are either below or above.

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Of course as a side point "IQ Tests" do not measure Intelligence, they measure "IQ" by subjecting people to a standardized series of tests and attempting to run the resulting answers so some form of supposedly scientific analysis. It is not even guaranteed that someone taking different types of IQ tests will get the same "IQ", let alone different people achieving objective scores using different types of tests.

Thank you Colette. That is a clearer picture.

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For sure. IQ test mainly measure a person's ability to figure out the correct answers on IQ tests. Which is probably somewhat indicative of their abilities to figure other things out.

It seems as if people with more need to be admired or accepted sometimes actually come across to those they're trying to prove themselves to as less smart than they really are.

Personally I think Good heartedness and generosity count for a lot too.

/me is going to spend the afternoon checking whether Kaimi has installed spycams in his house . . .

Pep (maybe experience *is* a great teacher if you are anything to go by!)

Generally, the more IQ tests one does, the better one gets at figuring out the correct answers.
Ditto for indications of intelligence like simplex crosswords, sudoku.
Tests measure one's ability time to pass the test at the time of the test.

I've come across people who are wonderfully gifted in matters matematical, logical, creative, but who absolutly suck bigtime at being pleasant and/or honest and/or in any way bearable.

Is it any worse than the already existing forum patrol?

I think you are quite right. Lots of practice can be more important than high intelligence when it comes to doing things well. And being smart doesn't necessarily mean caring about others. And smart people can be just as blinded as anyone by emotion.

But once they put their mind to figuring out how to do well at something being smarter probably helps.

I have a mistake in thinking that I believe most people make.

If I do not understand what someone is telling me, I assume that it is the other person's fault for not speaking intelligently and clearly. If I do not understand why someone else has made a certain decision, I assume that they are not as good at making decisions as I am. If I do not understand another's behavior, I assume that the other person never learned proper behavior.

Those are all bad assumptions. And even though I intellectually recognize they are bad assumptions, I still make them, habitually, all the time.

I think there are two problems:

1. Face-to-face communication is mostly non-verbal. I remember in my Introductory Communication class in college, communication is 90% non-verbal. (To this day, I do not understand how it was quantified.) But if face-fo-face is 90% non-verbal, then quick-and-dirty math tells me that we communicate about one-tenth as effectively in Second Life than in real life.

2. Though Second Life is made up of, ultimately, real people, the rules of socialization are far different in Second Life than any we experience in real life. Someone entering Second Life for the first time is experiencing a culture shock equivalent to the rural person who first moves to the big city, or the American who visits China for the first time. It is not easy to fit into a new social environment.

Remember that all of us have been learning the rules of communication and socialization all our lives. We have been practicing and perfecting them all our lives. And most of us are still learning. If it takes that long to learn in real life, why would it be so easy to assimilate in a day in Second Life?

In real life, I am an adult, with three post-secondary degrees, who has lived professionally from her ability to communicate and negotiate with people. And yet, even I was once a Second Life n00b.

Geez - who knows how I managed to mess that link up. Here is what I was reading - quite interesting and entertaining in some ways:

http://www.geocities.com/rnseitz/Definition_of_IQ.html

No way - I is way smarter than all y'alls is.

You've put some intelligent thought into this.

It is. Thanks.

You haven't disproved it to me yet.

I have given up on most people online, 90% of the population are those with an IQ of an ant. Sadly stubborness seams to come with ignorance. I see what was meant when they say the real stupid people are those who think they know it all because then they refuse to learn. There should be a intelligence test needed to join SL and enter some grids.

No way - it would ruin the fun for many of us.

Better then ruining the fun of all of us.

I say suspend anyone who bitches about some ones avatar because that is where most of SL drama comes from. There is an ignore button and if you cant figure out how to use it I don't think you have a place on SL.

There's a contradiction in that. You recommend the ignore button, but want to suspend those that bitch rather than just ignore them yourself - and you say that those folks ruin "the fun for all of us", whereas if you ignored them they could not ruin your fun and still provide me my laughs at their ignorance.

I know that is bad, but sometimes I just need to get my laughs where I can.

If they had used the ignore button they would not be bitching. Enough bitching leads to two things. either I get in trouble or they do. So even if i ignore them what good does that do because they haven't ignored me so they are STILL bitching about me.