On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Demian Brecht <demianbre...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> I can't ascertain what your strengths are as I don't work with you on a >>> daily basis (one of the many benefits of working with people smarter than >>> you ;)). >> >> Doubt that, unless they have 160+ I.Q.'s(been seeing psychiatrists >> since I was 13). I'm very secure in my childlike intellectualism. > > A high IQ just proves ability to score well on IQ tests. On the whole, > your statement strikes me as reminiscent of Sheldon Cooper's > insistence that "I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested!". >
Someone insulted my intelligence, and stated how they worked with much smarter people...this was just a confidence statement that I'm intelligent as well, so don't get uppity with me. > Personally, I've never taken an IQ test, so I don't know how well I'd > score. But I'm a school dropout, never went to > college/uni/TAFE/etc/etc, don't have any certifications of any sort. Me too, I was tested earlier in life, and took others. Dropped out in ninth grade, and went to the library to self learn, which isn't always the best path, but the one I took as well. > I'm a pretty uneducated fella, according to my > résum&htmlentitiesdontworkhere; (that's "resume" when folded > into ASCII). So according to how most people think about intelligence, > I probably have a sub-par IQ. There are many aspects to 'sub-par I.Q.', because I like to think everyone has a savant skill in them. On the flip side, I'm a professional > programmer, I run a server where people play Dungeons and Dragons, and > I'm a well-respected wordsmith as Dungeon Master. Plus, I work in > theatre (in fact, at the moment I'm posting from the bio box, sitting > next to the follow spot that I'll be operating for the next two > weeks). So I think I have enough muscle upstairs to get through > life... Bench pressing those molecules, and problem solving is just like bench pressing some weight...it gives you the ability to do a little heavy mental lifting when necessary. > > But Dwight (and I'll continue to address you as such until you change > your mail headers), I'll get to that eventually. a LOT of what you're saying is coming across as > over-inflated ego. No, just stating to another I'm intelligent as well, so don't push the subject if you don't want the actual response of who I am. Maybe you are a majorly interdisciplinary learner; > but boasting that you're "the most interdisciplinary learner [we] > might have ever encountered" just comes across poorly. Not a boast. I'm forgetful sometimes because I OCD crash coursing everything, so I just say that with confidence, not arrogance. One thing I've > learned from various groups is that, no matter how X you are, there's > someone else who's even more X - for any X. Maybe it isn't true > somewhere, maybe you really are the peak - but more than likely you > aren't, Probably not, I've met many who I can tell you are greater, but I have my pride as well when I enter into a conversation, and get insulted. and it's much more pleasant to be proved better than your > claim than to be proved worse. > > (There are exceptions, of course. I have absolutely no doubt that I am > the person most familiar with the RosMud++ code and thus the person > best positioned to maintain that project. This is because I wrote it. > But I am not claiming to be the best C++ programmer in the world, > because there are a lot of other C++ programmers among the seven > billion here.) > Went to write my own language as well, but got caught up in a million more I liked better. -- Best Regards, David Hutto CEO: http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list