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Are you more or less intelligent than the average person who will answer this poll? || || You predict the average person who responds to this poll will think they're ____ intelligent than the average person who answers this poll

More || More
73.1%
More || Less
7.2%
Less || More
15%
Less || Less
4.6%

1,645 votesFinal results

8:48 PM · Jan 21, 2020

@SmallgovConserv

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Well, since I'm Mensa, I already know I'm smarter than 98%

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Jack King-Gough

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Trying to parse your question has made me feel remarkably dumb. I say Less || More

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@AugustineFacts

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I was really happy with how "are you above or below avg intelligence (among the people in this room)?" went at the Askhole event, so even!

2

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More/Less is an impossible combination. Smart measurement technique. :)

1

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I reads good and I is smart

Fotis Koutoulakis

(Φώτης Κουτουλάκης)

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Sample 32154374 of the Dunning-Kruger effect in action

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I expected that most think they are above average but 73% is wild. So interesting!

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Let's just assume: 1. measured IQ is exactly the same as intelligence. 2. Everyone knows their measured IQ Then the question is, do you think your number is bigger or smaller than the avg of this subpopulation(this poll)? And how will most answer?

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