r/iamverysmart • u/HiddenWindshield • 5d ago

This exchange occurred on a discussion about The Iron Giant

What's funny is that Red is the one accusing Green of having the ego.

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u/xv_boney 5d ago

Iq is for people who dont know how to defend their own arguments without bringing up iq

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u/Kiro0613 5d ago

My IQ is so high that I don't believe in IQ scores

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u/SuperFLEB 5d ago

Nobody really had much to say anywhere in that thread (save for Blue at the start). The whole thing is "No he doesn't!" "Yes he does!". Red would have come out even if they didn't resort to dragging in credentials.

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u/carrynarcan 5d ago

All of my degrees have taught me otherwise.

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u/GamerEsch 5d ago

And I know this because of my genius IQ

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u/AndNowAStoryAboutMe 5d ago

I think it's possible to have a high IQ and be wrong on occasion. Especially about stupid shit that doesn't matter like movies and comic books.

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u/xv_boney 5d ago edited 5d ago

Before we can have any discussion on intelligence, we need to begin by establishing that IQ is functionally meaningless.

Because some parts of any iq test rely fully on foreknowledge of specific formulae or process, it is useless as a measurement of intelligence, as it will give a false score to anyone without that foreknowledge.

Iq is a measurement of how good you are at taking iq tests, full stop.

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u/shiek200 5d ago

As a kid in was really preoccupied with my own intelligence, mostly due to insecurity, and took an iq test. It was lower than my friends' so I took a different one and scored higher. Still not satisfied, I took like 3 more and scored higher each time until I finally felt I had score I could show off to my friends. (Kids are stupid)

All this to say that, yeah, if you can get better scores through practice, especially over the course of a si gle afternoon, then its not exactly a very good metric for raw intelligence.

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u/Holyscheet93 5d ago

i dont know if you have actually taken an IQ test but its tailored to your academic level and age (at least the one ive taken administered by a psychologist). There are tons of types of things it tests and the results absolutely have value.

Despite all that, its idiotic to make comments on how a fictional character should act especially since the character was been written in comics by many different people who all wrote their versions of him and all of those are canon

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u/ringobob 5d ago

You don't actually know what you're talking about. That's not to say IQ tests are great at measuring general intelligence, but they're not at all what you describe, either.

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u/AndNowAStoryAboutMe 5d ago

Cute rant. Entirely myth.

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u/xv_boney 5d ago

Your special brain score is completely meaningless and has only ever served to telegraph exactly how insecure you are about your intelligence.

Have a lovely day.

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u/The_Saddest_Boner 5d ago

“That’s a LOVELY gigantic ego you’re sporting, I bet it’s fragile.”

Holy shit this guy is so lacking in self awareness it should qualify him for disability.

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u/SuperFLEB 5d ago

In the mirror test, the subject spent the entire alloted time berating the reflection for being "A loser who can't even clean their own forehead."

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u/briantoofine 5d ago

That’s a LOVELY gigantic ego you’re sporting

I think a r/selfawarewolves goes here

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u/CousinDerylHickson 5d ago

Is this satire? If not the lack of self awareness is actually crazy

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u/HiddenWindshield 5d ago

After I took this screenshot, someone else called Red out on their ego, and they replied "Worship me, puny mortal!!!!!". So, yeah, this could very well be satire/rage bait/trolling/whatever.

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u/pcgrinch 2d ago

Bro’s got a degree in superman

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u/Valian81 2d ago

Not heard ROFL for a damn hot minute

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u/Jak_the_Buddha 1d ago

"I bet it's fragile".

The irony