People that think they're very intelligent

Today I reacted to the top and best posts from the subreddit r/iamverysmart
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[@awhngelic]

half of these 'intellects' would have a stroke attempting a GCSE maths exam

[@EL01-h4c]

We need to elaborate that this would be at foundation level 😂

[@t_aikutsu]

@@EL01-h4c even george didn't have a stroke at that but tbf jimbo mazza was there to help

[@Lucky-Charm-547]

Or the JMC lol

[@ajibeji02]

@@Lucky-Charm-547 LOL fr

[@jaxcoss5790]

​@@EL01-h4c😂😂😂😂😂

[@thecrispymaster]

As someone who studied theoretical physics and maths at uni for 5 years, I always wince whenever folk talk about being interested in these subjects as evidence of them being "intellectual". We're just folk with a niche interest like any other, nothing to brag about. Hell, many science students also have interest in the arts, it's how I first got involved in dance. These guys are like the people who buy shelves full of books they don't read just to display how "well read" they are to visitors.

[@aresjerry]

There are geeks and nerds. Problem today is low iq, glasses wearing, video game playing geeks think they are nerds.

[@wewantarock]

Yeah, I'm doing a distance learning course atm, currently doing an All Sciences module. Can do quantum physics easy. Cannot get my head around the formula for speed. Everyone has different talents and some things aren't "better" than others

[@aresjerry]

Ha looks like you summoned one 🤣 👆🏻

[@wewantarock]

@@aresjerry what I mean is, an idiot who can't even do basic maths (me) can understand quantum physics. Understanding something doesn't mean shit. We all understand different things and understanding one thing means fuck all about how smart you are

[@wewantarock]

@@aresjerry I hope that you will get a kick out of the fact that I am straight up not understanding the excel tutorial I'm going through. Sumif makes fuck all sense to me I can, however, pronounce a voiced velar implosive

[@kiiturii]

imagine flexing that you can play 21 moves of chess against yourself in your head, when there are people playing entire games of chess against multiple people at the same time while blindfolded

[@Elriuhilu]

Imagine flexing that you can play chess against yourself in your head when there are people who have friends that enjoy spending time with them.

[@oddpoppetesq.3467]

I can calculate about 8moves ahead, but not uncontested, it all depends what the opponent does, normally I have to change the plan up after 2-3 moves played, so him saying he can calculate 21moves uncontested is BS, all a player has to do is move a piece that he hadn't calculated being moved and it fucks the entire plan up 🤷

[@chazzybara]

imagine flexing that you can play 21 moves of chess against yourself in your head, when there are people actually playing full games of chess against other people because theyre not in a romanian prison

[@eqmcctool5456]

Not to defend Andrew tate about any of the bad stuff he does but his father was a pro chess player who was really good and because of that Andrew tate played alot of chess and is better than your average player at it

[@Tdog47123]

@@eqmcctool5456so basically he’s a virgin, could’ve told you that without knowing about his dads chess story 😂

Andrew Tate's tweets just straight up seem AI generated at this point.

[@GummitMan]

Prolly are

[@pika_1_859]

I’m starting to think he’s AI generated

[@portlyoldman]

It's the opposite, Artificial Moron..

[@Ledgend]

The second one was a quote from his late father when being questioned about his profession of a chess player by police officers as he had just fought multiple men off

[@h0td0gwater]

​@@Ledgend haha the same dad that beat both the kids so bad their mum had to take them away from them to the uk 😂 you know its bad when they have to go to the uk lmao

[@petercormack2859]

If you feel the need to flex your iq in an argument you basically loose the argument by default

[@WhatchaMightCallit]

This is gonna be ironic as hell, but i always see people say "loose" instead of "lose" and it just pisses me off

[@RNS_Aurelius]

People mistaking social ineptitude for high intelligence because their favourite book is a thesaurus.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

What kind of dinosaur is a thesaurus?

[@lordodin5755]

My favourite thesaurus is barney

[@Alphoric]

@@lordodin5755Barney thesaurus

[@Killjoy_Mel]

Offended guys on the internet doing that focus move behind their desks and suddenly start typing in cursive to win an argument. Yup.

[@neilgodwin6531]

My favourite was the one saying his friends only aimed for middle income jobs. Like he has friends 😂

[@bluflavouredpudding]

As someone with above average intelligence, I can certify the Beverly Hills Chihuahua is an intelectual masterpiece

[@thesnuggler9606]

But not nearly as intellectual as the sequel.

[@keyciannouncer8743]

@@thesnuggler9606 what’s that, the Los Angeles Labrador?

[@thesnuggler9606]

@@keyciannouncer8743 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2. All the luminaries of our time are discussing its profound philosophy and intellectual merits.

[@Bagirauwu]

Clearly the best person to judge intelligence sir memeulous

[@Fredric_Cedrich]

He went to Oxford… once.

[@dhalix]

@@Fredric_Cedrich Wasn't it Cambridge?

[@Fredric_Cedrich]

@@dhalix I can't actually remember

[@Zack_F1]

@@dhalix Im lste but it was Cambridge

[@lizard7553]

I dont think georges mask has ever been centered for at least 2 years

[@KC-tx3ko]

I don’t care about it being centred but admit it drives me nuts that the bottom points don’t line up lol

[@aleksandralesniewska2879]

its half a cm off centre D:

[@h0td0gwater]

​@@aleksandralesniewska2879has been for ages lately😂😭

[@Charted]

Bro just leave him alone, no-one wants to see the mask, everyone wants to see his face instead 😂

[@StravaiginHippy]

Why wear a mask. Criticising everyone anonymously?

[@annaliseinengland3059]

As an English major, it’s incredibly obvious to me when someone is using “fancy” words to sound smart without actually understanding what the words mean. Some of those sentences made absolutely no sense and it’s clear that the people writing them want desperately for people to think they’re smart without actually being smart 🤣

[@sirhawke]

I'm not even an English major and I find it funny when people use more complex words for no reason other than sounding smart when perfectly ordinary words would both sound better, and often work better in ordinary conversation.

[@rosiefay7283]

On the other hand, in many of these examples, the fancy words fit the context and the sentences make sense, so they don't belong in r/iamverysmart. For example "perspicacity" was used correctly.

[@sirhawke]

@@rosiefay7283 Yeah but nobody in any ordinary situation uses a lot of those words, when simpler words work just as well. It's like these two sentences. Both mean the same thing, but the first one no one would use in any ordinary situation. He extrudes more complicated sounding words in an attempt to appear smarter. He forces more complicated sounding words in an attempt to appear smarter.

[@ImNotQualifiedToSayThisBut]

​@@sirhawkeit's easy to assume though. A lot of people using "big" words online might very well have some other language from English as their mother tongue and learned from reading literature. It's a common occurrence that those who learned English using literature have a vocabulary considered weird or perhaps pretentious in spoken English

[@yungmaz13]

@@sirhawke Im not on anybody’s side but personally I prefer to use ‘big’ words for conciseness, for example rather than saying “at the same time” you can just say “simultaneously”, the decrease of words just makes sentences flow better for me

[@chetmanley1885]

There was a really interesting study (yeah this sounds like one of those posts already) called "consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity - problems with using big words needlessly". Basically said if you stuff loads of big words in things people think you're covering for something, and after seeing loads if these posts it's absolutely true.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

The best part about that type of people is that dont even know what half the words they use actually mean and they immediately fold when they have to discuss a topic with someone who has a normal amount of information on that field. I mean I like having a large vocabulary, and language is something you can use to not just communicate more clearly, but also make it interesting for people to actually listen to whats coming out of your mouth, but fuck those pretentious people annoy me. When I come across a situation like that I like to respond in Latin just to fuck with em. It really confuses them. Get out-pretentioused. Is that a word? I dont care, I made it a word.

[@Lewtable]

@@TheSuperappelflap Personally I think a lot of people subconsciously follow the idea of that a smart person should be able to explain something to someone in a way that is easy to understand for as many as possible as well. When your method of conversing with other people is to stuff it full with big words that you know are contrived or difficult to understand it just makes you look even dumber in the eyes of most people with social common sense. The only reason you'd have to talk like that in regular conversation is because you don't know how to handle a casual conversation like an average person, the most observable standard of communication in any social setting. But I think we all know that these are average people that wish they were more special and unique than they actually are and get stuck in playing out some role play make-believe about themselves where they are the main character and everyone else is NPCs. Adopting speech mannerisms that are pointlessly complex is just part of the role play.

[@Wolfie54545]

A smart person knows how to simplify things.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@Lewtable Yeah that

[@Wolfie54545]

@@LewtableYes. As a writer I will add this: using big words people don’t know will take people out of your story/conversation to wonder “what does that mean?” There ARE “bigger” words you can use that everyone knows.

[@Ghandino]

IQ of 210 but starts a sentence with ‘because’

[@buta6608]

IQ of 210 and uses the word conundrum wrong

[@sezuin_6577]

Also says "a M.D." not "an"

[@RoboDragon64]

and wrote conundrum instead of abundance or something that means an amount

[@skaruts]

​@@sezuin_6577 technically that one is actually correct

[@7029-h7u]

You actually can start a grammatically correct sentence with "because" >:), if it's a cause/ effect sort of thing. (Because of x, y happened.). (Of course, it doesn't matter, I just think it's mildly interesting. And ammo against the grammar police >:))

[@GenderFluidDragonKing]

I think it's always so funny how these intellectuals almost always bring up IQ, even though it's an invalid determination of intelligence

[@kiiturii]

and they'd be the first ones to tell you that if you happened to score higher than them too lol

[@Wolfie54545]

IQ is not completely invalid, it doesn’t mean what these folks think it means. IQ is more of a measure of potential in certain subjects. You have multiple IQ values: one for each subject, these are then averaged so claiming your IQ is 130 or something does not tell us much. What individual IQ stat is your highest? You CAN have an individual IQ higher or lower than your average. IQ is a measure of what comes easy to you. You don’t even need an IQ test to know which subject your IQ will be higher in. Does math come easily to you? Your math IQ is high. Are you able to easily visualize how things would fit, such as visual puzzles? Your Visual-Spatial IQ is high. NOTE: Just because you have a high IQ DOES NOT mean you are automatically smart in that area. You still have to LEARN. Edit: think of it kind of like Pokémon stats. Two Pokémon can have the same stat total, but one could have high attack while the other high defense. The Pokémon are not going to be good at the same things. OR. Two Pokémon can have different stat totals, but the lower total one can still have a higher attack than the higher total one. Guess who is going to be dealing more damage? Or levels. A lower level Pokémon will not do as much damage as the same species at a higher level. Why? EXPERIENCE. The lower level Pokémon has the POTENTIAL to be as good, but needs to reach that. JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE POTENTIAL, DOES NOT MEAN YOU KNOW EVERYTHING.

[@eleruces7722]

​@@Wolfie54545also it's not an effective way to measure intelligence as a personal feat as it's something you can study for and learn. It's why people who take IQ tests all day score highly, because they've learned what to look for rather than problem solving in an entirely removed situation. It's a bit weird personally and tends to follow the lines of eugenics more than any form of humanitarian betterment.

[@thecrispymaster]

@Wolfie54545 To be honest, its more useful real world applications are ironically in looking at the lower ends of the spectrum. These (amoung other) tests can be very useful in determining whether someone struggles in certain areas and is commonly used as a jumping off point when people are looking to classify someone with intellectual impairments or neurological disorders. For example, some people with conditions like dyspraxia can have strong comprehension and reasoning abilities, but struggle with processing speed or working memory.

[@junrobin9335]

@@Wolfie54545 Think they mean to say that IQ is invalid cause the stats you get, as you put it, are gonna change with time regardless. IQ only measures how fast you pick up on things and where your average is at. My IQ score from the hospital when I got tested for autism is entirely invalid by now since that was ten years ago. Not just that but the willingness of the person being tested also influences those numbers. For example I got tested in a hospital while I was there for treatment and felt relieved if I had anything else to do than sit around and wait for tests, I scored slightly higher than average while EQ was low. My sis got picked out of class, scored below average, mostly because she got taken out of an interesting class, was upset and answered all questions with I don't know before going back to class. She just didn't want to do the test. So just saying the numbers aren't entirely valid because the numbers varry even from just how motivated you are to do the test itself. There's a lot of variables that influence what outcome you get. And while the numbers themselves aren't accurate, it's still a useful tool to get to know where your strengths and weaknesses lie. So you can find ways to strengthen your weaknesses and learn how to best use your strengths.

[@SalmonOfK84]

Can’t believe George caught the use of the wrong “your”, but didn’t clock that ‘Some Kind of God’ kid SWAPPING THEIR AND THERE IN THE SAME SENTENCE

[@broton69]

Or that they thought you should put full stops in an acronym....or that they thought OMG is an acronym in the first place!

[@fearfully3496]

My IQ was tested when I was going through the process of being diagnosed with autism. So mine was at least done by a clinical psychologist with the aid of other professionals. I also did two different ones. I haven't found an online IQ test close to the real thing. So yeah I won't believe a self evaluated IQ score. And IQ tests aren't just written things, loads of things go into the assessment. For example we had to "play" with shapes and die. Matching shapes, building up complex shapes, a lot like those puzzles you get where it looks impossible to fit all the pieces, but there's like an odd trick. Anyway I'm rambling 😅 they look at your body language, they listen to your voice and time you. I don't know how that would translate to a plain online test, unless it's like an online class with someone idk. We also had a long discussion on what IQ really means. It basically means nothing, it doesn't necessarily prove anything. The IQ test is more to find a thinking pattern. People on the spectrum like myself tend to score higher because we have very little or no emotional intelligence to rely on. Not that we don't feel emotions, it's more like you don't have any built in system to sort out those emotions. That's why they usually say we're very smart but our hearts are those of a 12 year old. IQ means nothing, please don't base yourself worth on that man made number. Be yourself and bloom the way you're meant to.

[@_XRMissie]

Going through the process myself for various personal reasons, and I agree. IQ isn't just "intelligence" or w/e, it's just a general marker of problem solving adaptability imho. Besides, like you said, how tf you gonna put all the physical/spatial tests online without using a game engine to simulate 3D space? You can't boil that down to 1-5 scale questions. Also not to get into it since I've not actually done mine yet, but I got a small glimpse of one of the tests from my psychologist and istg it was just a page of alien looking symbols lmao.

[@fearfully3496]

@@_XRMissie yeah the tests aren't normal tests is very strange tbh. But you what, it was fun, and I wish you all the best!

[@junrobin9335]

Same did mine in a two week hospital stay, was the most stimulating exam I had during that time. Got autism, the test was fun I loved the puzzle part and the part where you gotta draw using different colours. My EQ score was a joke though. xD I am still learning there cause I wanna become a psychologist and uh, apparently you need to be able to express empathy or something a little more than what I normally do. So practicing a lot.

[@fearfully3496]

@@junrobin9335 hi man, don't let anything hold you back!

[@alucard303]

Most of these Oh-So-High-IQ people don't even know that IQ isn't the only Q that can be measured. Anyways, about the autism: I've never seen myself or other autistic people around me as having little or less emotional intelligence. Moreso, it felt like we just processed them different than allistic people, or neurotypicals in general. And since everything in society is built on weird social norms made up by them, it appears like we have less emotional intelligence. Its the inconsistencies, the not-meaning.what-you-say and then relying on obscure and completely arbitrary social cues to somehow categorise things that throws me off. Which also enables me to spot manipulative behaviours way easier than others. I'm very empathetic, i care deeply, and people have kept telling me that i have a huge heart, am a source of good, rational advice and that few people are so dedicated to understanding and helping others as me. I just feel that emotions and empathy are more detached from my reasoning or decison making than others. Values and logic is consistent, emotions aren't. And i may not show the strong, emotional reactions that society expects off of me in some situations. But i do not like the statement that people on the spectrum have little to no emotional intelligence. It is a spectrum for a reason. Neurotypical people have be better at handling social situations in their society, yes. But emotions? Hell no

[@elliemchugh3348]

it is crazy how george's identity has stayed a secret, props to you man

[@Beef__]

8:55 favourite part of this one is that they’ve used “conundrum” wrong lmao

[@treepotato9273]

Lone wolf, on social media. Math ain't mathin, chief. Also, to quote from Mensa's website, "This online test gives an indication of general cognitive abilities, represented by an IQ score of between 85 and 145, where 100 is the population average. This test is not a substitute for professional intelligence tests, such as those administered by Mensa and licensed psychologists."

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Some old dude that was in Mensa once told me I should sign up. I looked up online what Mensa has ever accomplished or done for humanity. The answer is nothing. I didnt join.

[@h0td0gwater]

A mensa rep came to my primary school once and gave tests to about 5 of us. Told me I had an IQ of 180 and tried to get my teacher to talk my parents into signing me up for their membership thing. (It was a subscription fee so it was an automatic "lmao no, do you think we'remade of money?") I'm pretty sure mensa is some kind of scam. The tests don't even go up to 180 & I've never been above average in anything. Also the test was like all puzzles and pattern prediction stuff, so I don't see how that's an indication of intelligence anyway. Just now realising it was probabaly a scam😂😂...did anybody else have this experience in primary school? It was year 6 around the time we did our SATs if that helps?

[@eleruces7722]

The true IQ test is not paying to get a test to boost your ego lol

[@ambarcraft4476]

@@TheSuperappelflap Mensa is for similar minded people to find each other and talk. Its full of IT/CE/CS people talking about computers all day long, and a few doctors.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@ambarcraft4476 yeah but what has Mensa ever actually contributed to society? It doesn’t publish anything. It’s just a bunch of people sitting around talking oh look how smart we are. I can do that with my friends at home

[@ramenaddict1676]

Intellect =/= thinking you're smarter than everyone else. That is called the dunging Kruger effect.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

I like to think Im not smarter than everyone else but then I talk to people and it comes back. Send halp.

[@lordodin5755]

Hehehe dung kruger

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@lordodin5755 hehehe he said dunging i just noticed that

[@paddycampbell92]

Dunning.

[@Killjoy_Mel]

@@TheSuperappelflapThe irony of this comment being finished with a very millennial online 'send halp' slang like it's still SuperWhoLock era on Tumblr. Eh, kidding. But all the doggos and halps being sent do trigger a 'come tf on now grow up' response.

[@yougoslavia]

I haven't taken an IQ test. I just know that I'm dumb. Simple as that. Why don't more people do this?

[@olliesmusic2586]

You are clearly more intelligent than lots of these people.

[@forest2727]

Some believe it and get an ego boost, others do it for fun. It's like zodiac signs, some passionately believe in it and others just have fun with the idea of them.

[@h0td0gwater]

​@@forest2727they're so inconsistent too between providers and rely heavily on pattern prediction stuff. Like, you could study for it like any other test, get a high score and it wouldn't prove anything other than you're good at studying. I really don't see the appeal and can't understand why anyone would take it seriously 😂

[@forest2727]

@@h0td0gwater not gonna lie. I think some people take it just to try it out,not actually believing it and then when they like the results, they get an ego boost and start believing it.

[@is4bellew]

this is so real

[@BlackWater_49]

6:00 As a law student myself I can confidently say that calculating the exact dates of statutory limits isn't abstract mathematics but getting your head around certain laws and regulations might as well be quantum physics cause it'll break your brain just as much. Also if it was that easy there wouldn't be any lawyer since laymen could just pick up the text of the law and deal with the entire bullshit themselves...

[@vaernima]

Imagine turning to a thesaurus for your facebook bio, only to pick out the fancy sounding words for "I like cats, reading and forests. I'm also self taught, lonely and cynical". That's so embarrassing.

[@scoopdeloop]

6:30, pundit basically just means an expert on something. anyone who has ever called themselves a sex expert has never in their life gotten laid.

[@yellowfrog2259]

I'm a sex expert

[@grizzlydino]

As a 8 year old with a IQ of 682 who watched the Big Bang Theory everyday, I can confirm that I am very smart

[@Killjoy_Mel]

Peer-reviewed, too. Peers? Myself. For I am peerless!

[@Eugene_Black]

Lies! Only a true intellectual would watch Young Sheldon and the big bang theory

[@Ash_The_Duck]

Children

[@Saranda4787]

An* 8 year old

[@CraigTravers]

​@@Saranda4787Sandra*

[@garou9914]

"it's honestly not hard to become a lawyer" the person who said that clearly never studied law lmao. I'm studying basic things (mainly relating to marriage/divorce and contracts) for my translation degree and i wanna kill myself already. I truly feel for law students who have to study everything in detail.

[@rugbyking8524]

I'm not funny. But please imagine a joke about studying wills, because u want to die. I'm making myself laugh thinking about a joke without actually having a joke in my head

[@WhatwouldRoddyPiperdo]

Perspicacity is a word they used in the Simpsons. It is a real word but I'm 40 & have literally only heard it once my entire life & that's the episode called Lisa the Simpson.

[@Fantastic_Mr_Fox]

You know as a bilingual french/english speakin person I find it funny how many words overlap in meaning but absolutely not in usage. Perspicacity, or usually it's adj form *perspicace* (on french - in english I do not know of an adj for Perspicacity) is quite commonly used to describe cunning/good at peovlem solving individuals. Like, if you solve a hard riddle, you might say you are "perspicace" Although it's often used in a humorous manner, because it's kind of a funny word to say in french.

[@nhf7170]

@@Fantastic_Mr_Fox It's" perspicacious," but normal people never use it.

[@user-xd7dt6gr8l]

Actually to be fair in Newton's "Principa Mathematica" the first two chapters do cover the IQ range of twitter users

[@WilliamSmith-mx6ze]

You'd think whoever wrote that Tweet would've noted it's 'Principia' not 'Principa'.

[@user-xd7dt6gr8l]

@@WilliamSmith-mx6ze They’re just being innovative clearly

[@BestFriendsWhoLiveTogether]

11:43 Imagine not even being able to spell ineptitude while claiming to be highly intellectual… 😂

[@Fantastic_Mr_Fox]

Inaptitude is actually a word. It means 'not apt', ie, not suited. In this case though he clearly meant inept and not inapt so your point still stands.

[@iolacola]

The Dunning-Kruger Effect in full force here

[@Kyrelel]

Oh dear, yet another person who doesn't understand what the Dunning-Kruger Effect actually states.

[@QuinnKallisti]

The phenomenon described in the Dunning-Kruger study, has since been validated to not be distinct enough from statistical noise to be valid.

[@Rugby-yp2kp]

George doesn’t think he’s very intelligent, he knows it.

[@XenialXenon]

0:30 George's mask has been centred every video since

[@ebonydarknessdementiaraven4610]

"I'm an intellectual (INTJ-A 1w2)" is so fucking funny as someone who likes typology 😭😭

[@kanafinwereincarnation]

I swear it's always the INTJs who are so up themselves 😭 There are totally fine ones too obviously but the people who go on about their intelligence are always so proud of being INTJ as well like it's the defining factor that makes them better than everyone. I usually don't tell them it doesn't make them intellectual it just makes them annoying, but I think I should do that more often.

[@ebonydarknessdementiaraven4610]

@@kanafinwereincarnation ur so right, they seem to have this idea that all the NT types are way more intelligent than the rest of the types when that's just... not how it works 😭U should totally do it btw

[@kanafinwereincarnation]

@@ebonydarknessdementiaraven4610 and I'm NT as well so it's kind of embarrassing for me too 😭 (ENTP by the way) Also I love your username

[@zalhiami]

I mean the community doesn't stereotype INTJ or even most xNTx types as arrogant for no reason, I guess 🥲 These people are giving you all a bad rep.

[@blisterfingers8169]

Online IQ tests inflate your IQ and then try and sell you certificates and stuff. Perfectly marketed at these kind of people.

[@calebmufcthompson]

I am a certified genius, and I think George is the best KZbinr ever

[@pinealdreams1064]

I met someone like this recently. A girl on a dating app. Has the whole 'I'm smarter than everybody else' thing going on. When I told her I've made short films, and done paid jobs as a scriptwriter, she got very impressed. Told me that 'writers are the only true geniuses on the planet.' When I told her I'm far from a genius, and suggested that perhaps mathematicians or astrophysicists are more likely to fit that description, she immediately soured on me, called me 'negative' and we haven't spoken since. Basically, I got ditched for not performing self-fellatio. Very peculiar scenario.

[@Fantastic_Mr_Fox]

Huh.... yeah that's very weird. Also who the hell says 'fellatio'?

[@pinealdreams1064]

@@Fantastic_Mr_Fox Me? Someone's got to keep the classics alive.

[@Hackzor404]

Im so smart that i shit out books about quantum mechanics

[@yellowfrog2259]

I am a brain

[@zuziakolodziej8235]

Finally being seen as a law student. Thank you George 😅

[@FowlsNest]

All these guys pulled out the thesaurus and didn't bother rereading to see if it made sense.

[@Fantastic_Mr_Fox]

ie joey in friends

[@rugbyking8524]

Ik what a thesaurus is but I also feel like it should be a dinosaur

[@Foxyyreads]

Would love to see George take the Myers Briggs personality test lol. Then he’d know what all the random letters mean 9:47

[@aspectacled7440]

george mentioning beverly hills chihuahua when he missed that reference in the alvin and the chipmunks we watch makes me think that's the next we watch👀

[@RandomInTheInternet]

4:26 SLOWDOWN??JAMES MARRIOTT SONG REFERENCE????

[@Boosher_]

it just feels like these are the people who seem really smart at first in A levels but fall off once the course gets more complex

[@mbapum6363]

Maybe the lightbulb and gravity meme guy was just the god of irony and was far more intelligent than any of us.

[@Aimee998]

4:37 this is because the brain (the part where all the decision making is) fully develops around 25 👍🏻

[@me-dc8pj]

Technically there's no proof for that, the guy who did that study just... stopped at age 25. Its probably *around* 25 but for some people it could be, say, 30 instead

[@Constantinos_Is_Dead]

It doesn't. Per actual neurobiological studies, the brain develops your whole life. I was very curious about this, because I was seeing that opinion everywhere on the internet and it turns out it's blatantly false and it's just a case of legitimizing age shaming really.

[@Mazzaspazza]

#1: James Marriott

[@hollybrookfield6067]

Did you know that he’s trilingual?

[@HowToSucceedAtBreakfast]

Naaaaawwwww

[@stephen42007]

The "should i enlighten you" directly after using the wrong form of your is so bold 11:36

[@Killjoy_Mel]

'Your' enlightening me. You're gonna shine a torch in my eye or...?

[@meursault7030]

Omg he fixed the off-center mask! I never mentioned it, but it was annoying me too.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Seek medication

[@meursault7030]

@@TheSuperappelflap Yes, everyone who has a different mind to you needs medication.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@meursault7030 Your OCD seems to be debilitating. Come on bro it was a joke. Take the joke.

[@elizabetheulaers4181]

@@TheSuperappelflapOCD is about compulsions, not symmetry, not cleaning, and definitely not about a bandana not being centred

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@elizabetheulaers4181 the fact you took that comment seriously when i literally said in the same comment that it is a joke, means you most def have OCD.

[@skullsworld3723]

6:47 it's the fact they also quoted the chorus from the song 'Animal I Have Become' and used a wolf + chain emoji. I cannot possibly believe this is somebody with a Harvard PhD while also quoting a song that I used to listen to when I was 13 to show off their emo side 😂

[@CitizenSnips]

Basically, the Dunning-Kruger Effect in its purest form

[@dcfc]

☝️🤓

[@perplexedsnowmobile]

Not really, Dunning Kruger effect is to do with a specific task or skill, not intelligence

[@CitizenSnips]

@@perplexedsnowmobile Semantics

[@Kyrelel]

@@CitizenSnips Knowledge.

[@Kyrelel]

If you are someone who likes to "accuse" others of suffering from Dunning-Kruger, that two things are evident. 1) You do not understand the Dunning-Kruger Effect 2) Your accusation places you at the same level of stupidity, by your own standards, as the person you are accusing.

[@idoblenderstuffs]

6:55 I forgot that in America the SAT is the end of high school test, and misunderstood this as referring to the SATs in the UK which you do at the end of elementary school so this sounded like an actual 10 year old to me.

[@glebglub]

Richard Feynman (pronounced fine-uh-man) is an insanely smart and talented physicist applauded by the community for his ability to explain any complex concepts in quantum mechanics so well that *even children can understand them*, so saying you listen to him isn't much of a brag. highly recommended though!

[@JohnCooper-gm6mn]

Also, he was from the USA, not a British citizen, so was most definitely not a "Sir".

[@RogerCaplan]

Same with John von Neumann. Even his Nobel Prize winning peers (who are among the most brilliant scientists in history) considered him to be a genius who operated on a completely different level to them, but the guy was able to talk to children about the most complex ideas because he understood them so well.

[@dancostello4872]

George uploading this is like the McCanns writing a book on how to look after your children 😂

[@SamThredder]

Seriously, the guy can't even figure out the most easy pronunciations of words that are in common usage. It boggles my mind sometimes how little he knows about really common things

[@scragar]

Also agnostic-atheist is a thing, agnostic/gnostic is about knowledge(I believe vs I know), atheist/theist is about the position(there is no god/gods vs there is a god/gods). An agnostic atheist is someone who believes there isn't a god but doesn't know for sure.

[@rinnniiiii]

Fun fact: People who actually have a high IQ don't tend to feel the need to brag about it on the Internet 👀

[@yveslafrance2806]

0:56 The chessboard is rotated 90 degrees

[@JazzyMaxine]

The guy at 10:00 saying he reads Feynman lectures is such a self report lol.

[@JazzyMaxine]

Lmaoo the guy at 18:05 too. They're all Feynman bros.

[@longtoney]

such a shame that the guy at 10:30 feels like he is proving his superiority by shitting all over his own culture

[@h0td0gwater]

It was really sad, I think it's got to ne internalised racism or something at play 😢

[@Killjoy_Mel]

Yeah. It got my blood boiling at first but the longer it went on, I just got sad, like genuinely sad. This is a very insecure 17-year-old.

[@SomebodyHere-cm8dj]

Indians have a strong "fair skin bias" for some reason. Our beauty products used to be called "fair and lovely" etc before they changed it to "glow and lovely"

[@theredking039]

A good day is a day when George posts

[@tanton9122]

I’m American and a 940 is typically not considered a good score since it’s out of 1600 and the lowest score you can get is a 600. In simple words, he’s daft.

[@babamm1356]

omg omg omg i was looking for a comment on that part because ???? 😂😂😂😂’i could get a 1500 but i didnt want to’ omg shut up. you did bad 940 is bad😂😂😂😂😂 its a fucking 58%/59% with rounding. just be sad like the rest of us that you ain’t gonna get a full ride anywhere, sheesh😂😂

[@aster7654]

TLDR: IQ tests are important to some people, but if you don't feel the need to have one then it's probably useless for you. To answer the question about IQ tests, sometimes it helps with psychological/psychiatric diagnosis. On a personal experience, I always felt inadequate, I struggle to adapt to work environment for example, and it's thanks to an IQ test (done by a professional psychiatrist, not a free online test) that I was properly diagnosed with autism and dyspraxia. Now, this was in France, I don't know how it works in the UK or the USA, but here it gave me access to a lot of resources to actually improve my life.

[@gazwilliams-nc7jp]

I did an IQ test online once, and when i went to see what it was, it asked me to pay I didnt, so i guess im pretty smart

[@emmamorley1446]

This is the best comment 😂

[@gazwilliams-nc7jp]

@@emmamorley1446 you would think the best comment would have more than 3 likes haha

[@jonlannister345]

I have an extremely high IQ. It has never been very much help though, just means I quickly figure out every way everything could go horribly wrong and causes anxiety problems. Being highly intelligence doesn't translate to success or usefulness, but it does leave one vulnerable to the heights of blind arrogance. That's why you'll find a lot of people with high IQs who believe and say very dumb things.

[@Humpty_Alexander_Dumpty]

George, we learnt what omnipotent meant in year 9 RE 😭

[@bellamarinez]

memeulous looks like the type of bloke to go a pub for a good pint

[@Nika-ig9zi]

To answer the question of why people would even take the "real" IQ test in the first place: A friend of mine did it because she had a coupon and because she wanted to prove her parents wrong who thought she was stupid... 😅 I think that's a solid reason 😂

[@RandomPerson-sh9tu]

8:53 conundrum doesn't even make sense here, they're just saying words lol

[@sershthefool]

cheers memeulous ly for this

[@Sd12sx23]

What kind of parents let their 3 year old disassemble a microwave oven? There's radioactive shit in there.

[@Kermitdie69]

I had to get an IQ test to get my ADHD diagnosis. So, sometimes one has to be done for medical reasons. However, most people bragging about their 1 million score just took a free test online.

[@killslay]

Came for the cringe, stayed for George struggling with the English language

[@XxXxESTxXxX]

IQ is such a useless way to measure intelligence anyway

[@Kyrelel]

An intelligent person would disagree with you.

[@Fantastic_Mr_Fox]

Yeah it's really useful for many things, however it is not absolute and especially not *reliable* if taken online. IQ isn't a measurement of intelligence, it is a _tool_ for the measurement of intelligence

[@sirhawke]

The thing with IQ tests and IQ itself is its basically useless as a measure of intelligence, and from what I remember IQ measures someones reasoning skills, not how smart they are. A quick Google also added it tries to show how well someone can use logic to answer questions and make predictions 😂

[@Kyrelel]

IQ is a measure of how well you can put knowledge into practical use. Weirdly, perhaps, that is more or less the definition of intelligence.

[@sirhawke]

@@Kyrelel Not always the way. I know people who scored high on IQ tests but are frankly very dumb people, they're just good at certain things. It's almost only ever dumb people who boast about the IQ levels, with smart people generally not boasting about their intelligence

[@ookjannesplanting1296]

Saying law is easier than abstract maths is wild because at least math makes sense

[@redRuxx]

3:46 bro is coping so hard💀

[@lilygray34500]

i rlly love this man

[@thedamnedatheist]

Agnostic Atheist is a correct description. It means that you don't believe in gods, but you are open to the possibility, no matter how tiny, that you could be wrong.

[@axolawwtl]

I'm glad somebody else pointed this out! I'm a polytheistic Pagan but I'm also agnostic.

[@the_eryn8336]

Being an apolitical anarchist is crazy

[@nyanuwu4209]

Not really. It's just impossible.

[@twix-official7329]

@@nyanuwu4209yeah, that’s basically what he was saying

[@Iggy253]

IQ is a very ineffective way to measure intelligence it doesn't actually measure how smart you are overall it just measures how good you are at answering questions.

[@grahvis]

Yes, answering questions in IQ tests. I remember someone saying how they had a long convalescence from illness and did the tests to amuse themselves. They said the more they did, the better they got.

[@shaun2463]

You had EIGHT sets in school? We had 4. Any lower and they'd just make you help the caretaker 💀

[@EmoBearRights]

My school had eight sets for Maths it's not that weird - I was slap bang in the middle one.

[@shaun2463]

@@EmoBearRights so... bottom set in my school

[@EmoBearRights]

@@shaun2463 Nah I'd probably be in the second or third in your school's system depending on how good everyone else's Maths was - I was ok at things like percentages and trig I just couldn't add up in my head or do algebra and later on I couldn't hack doing energy equations for Chemistry (my physics always sucked). They usually set half of the year so it was four sets but with maths they did the entire school. Because of where in the option columns I took history I wasn't set for it when I was doing my GSCE's. You might be interested in a concept I read that talks about multiple intelligences - including the two emotional ones - inter and intra personal intelligences - you'd call the first communication skills and the second self awareness.

[@sophasopha2357]

To answer why people get IQ tests done: I'm someone who had to get one done. Unfortunately it was because I have a disability and my school (at the time) was wanting to put me in the special ed class, which requires students have an IQ of 70 or lower. Safe to say I was definitely NOT 70 or lower. I always hate saying I got an official test done though, since people always assume it's because I'm an insufferable prick.

[@Fantastic_Mr_Fox]

So what did you get though? Dw I know IQ is a bit of a misleading measurment, I just want to know how low their jaw dropped 🤣 Also isn't 70 IQ is very very low? Idk how they could mistake someone for being 70 IQ.

[@TurboMeatWagon]

Average big bang theory enjoyer

[@HO-bndk]

That's not Newton's "Principia Mathematica". For one thing, it's in Latin. 😂

[@Dark_Nyan]

the mask wasn’t perpendicular

[@tori-loo]

Beverly Hills Chihuahua caught me off guard lmaooo

[@KeaSelepe-qd6fw]

It's literally people using verbosity to compensate for their lack of personality. Smh😢

[@ThaMainStage]

I like it when the bandana is centered and looks like a handle bar mustache

[@natatatm]

That's not what conundrum means lol, I'm sure they're still a genius tho

[@Mario01243]

9:45 So hes saying his mbti / personality type is INTJ-A form 16 personality types and 1w2 means his enneagram is 1 and his wing is two but i think he miss typed himself

[@josefwakeling7103]

my unmatched perspicacity (shrewdness) coupled with indefatigability (inability to fatigue) makes me a feared opponent in any realm of human endeavour is a quote from emory tate (andrews father) and is a verbose phrasing of i am very good at things and don't tire easily so people are scared to go against me, i'm not a huge tate fan but the idea of being perspicacious and indefatigable is worth striving for but using those skills to help people instead of being a feared oppenent is better imo

[@_JoyceArt]

An actual lawyer once told me that becoming a lawyer was a lot easier than it’s made out to be.

[@voidseeker4394]

That's something akin to survivor's bias. They are a lawyer, of course that was easy to them, since they already succeeded in becoming a lawyer. It was not easy to all people who failed, or never even got to try.

[@herrforehead]

I hate everything about myself but at least I am not one of these people

[@jay.u]

2:39 they misspelled “Principia” 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@andishawjfac]

That "how intelligent are you" post was amazing, most people can't be over average intelligence otherwise it wouldn't be average. We are dumb apes

[@Dzeroed]

Fucking "Reads like a description from Battersea Dog's Home"???? Bahahaaa 🤣🤣🤣🤣💀

[@Lethalwepon309]

My iq cannot equally match George’s

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Is there any way to match someones IQ except equally? I mean, it is a single metric. Its mathematically impossible not to equally match it. Your superfluous word disproportionally aggrevates me.

[@Lethalwepon309]

@@TheSuperappelflap I like bread 🍞

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@Lethalwepon309 Me too man, whole grain bread with some butter and ham is the beesnees.

[@Wolfie54545]

@@TheSuperappelflapIQ is actually not a single metric. It’s made up of a ton of individual IQs for each stats that are then averaged. (It’s a bit more complicated that that) Think of it similar to Pokémon stat totals.

[@Lethalwepon309]

@@Wolfie54545 Pokémon I know that pikachu and that

[@Garland042]

just found your yt and now it´s one of the best for me...cheers for scandinavia!

[@God_Is_An_Atheist]

17:38 Just to be clear, you can be agnostic and an atheist at the same time. Agnosticism is about what you know, Atheism is about what you believe.

[@ImNotQualifiedToSayThisBut]

There's a bunch of 25 year old party goers as long as you're in university lol

[@Bestssword]

Oil up

[@tescoexpress8218]

Some real Sheldons in this