Chuck's Questions
27 Dec '12 01:35Originally posted by kd2aczThe difference is that if someone tells me they had trouble understanding a post I have written
This is not something I usually do...
But when I first read this post I had to laugh, never have I seen someone boast about being... 'smart' like you have. You might consider a little humility there GF, I think you may have just turned off a lot of folks with the 'smarter than thou' arrogance.
There is no doubt that you can craft a post, but don't you ...[text shortened]... ur self-praise of intellect is a little too much to swallow. Come back down to earth.
I go back and try to make myself clearer.
GB just reposts exactly the same thing or tells people to go back and read it again.
I was not, and am not, boasting about being smart, (and IQ doesn't always map to smart, and
unfortunately doesn't necessarily map to being right either.) I was simply trying to point out to GB
that I am not an idiot, and still have no clue what he is on about most of the time.
IQ specifically measures the ability to comprehend abstract ideas and communicate.
So while it doesn't make me brilliant at anything else, An above average IQ means that I have specifically
scored well at understanding even quite cryptic messages and puzzles.
Which is why it's relevant.
Either GB is being so cryptic that on average less than 1:2000 people out of the general population would be
able to decipher his meaning...
Or his posts are poorly constructed and don't actually contain the information he is trying to convey.
This was my response to him acting like everyone else was just being dumb and not trying hard enough
to understand his posts.
And I am sorry but I am not dumb... And neither are many/most of the other people here who I have observed
having the same difficulty.
And yes, it's depressing that there are millions of people out there smarter than me (many massively so).
I believe that you should always strive to be better and improve yourself.
Never settle for second, aim for first... I am something like ~3.2millionth... That should be (mildly) depressing.
I don't boast about my IQ, partly because it doesn't mean a whole lot in the real world, partly because I have met
plenty of smarter people and know how much smarter many of them are, and partly because I really haven't done enough
with it to date, and what matters is not what you could have done but what you actually do. (GW Bush had an IQ high enough
to get into Mensa (130+) and yet acted like a complete idiot because he didn't apply his mind to the real world rather than IQ tests)
It would be like boasting about being really tall... Great if you use your hight to be a major league basketball player...
but otherwise it is just a meaningless number.
But it does mean that if you are having as GB says a "casual conversation", that if I can't understand you then you are either
pitching your posts WAY to high, or are not actually being comprehensible.
Also before you accuse me of arrogance I would ask you to go back and see anywhere where I have suggested that
I am smarter than GB. You will find that I actually explicitly acknowledge the possibility that he's smarter than me.
And that I cant understand his posts because they are too smart for me.
My point was exactly that the whole point of communication is that both/all parties can understand it.
So if someone tells you that you were unclear or that they didn't understand you then YOU need to go back and try
again to express your point in a way that is comprehensible to the person you are talking to.
I do that, as do many others on this site.
GB doesn't.
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