/lit/ - Literature

iirc JD Salinger had an IQ of 111

>NOOOOOOO HES RELIGIOUS HE CANT HAVE MADE THE DEFINING MASTERPIECE OF THE 19TH CENTURY IM SMARTER THAN HIM!!!

>>14541204
how about 165 iq authors?

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>>14541260
Truly religious people despise Dosto, anon.

>>14541204
All prose poets especially the poet maudits(IQ has nothing to do with creativity).

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>>14542536
Very true. My last job had me dealing with devout Christians of different denominations. Since I enjoy reading I would mention Dostoevsky and nearly all of them said he was trash.

They loved Tolkien and CS Lewis though.

>>14542559
I'll assume you're from the States. Can't worship the antichrist if you'll have to admit that Christianity is antisemitic.

>>14541900
What's he looking at?

>>14542559
Can confirm. When I was new to my workplace after a couple lunch hours of talking about our interests I simply brought up reading and named a few authors or books I particularly enjoyed, Crime and Punishment being one of my tops. He came to my cubicle not long after and said that I see you as an intellectual and would like to do a book club with you, I at the time was downright enthused and I asked if he had any suggestions. He said suggested 'Mere Christianity' by CS Lewis, and I didn't really think much of it. A couple days later he asked if I had ordered it and I said no, and he handed me a copy he bought. It was very nice of him and I told him he didn't have to do that but he said that he had a few laying around because he has used this same book for a book club 6+ times... It has been a few months and I've picked it up to entertain and challenge what's written and frankly I think this the worst 'philosophical' work that I've ever read. It has been front confronting my Evangelical savior with statements akin to "Well I reject God for my independence and I view Satan as reclaiming consciousness and as a force of will over the world that we are presented". Not word for word of course but rather tackling metaphysics. I think he has only experienced those with the same questions a Sunday school child would have.

>>14542677
Excuse some autocorrect typos and whatever other run-on's at play. At least the story is partially coherent.

>>14542581
More importantly, what isn't he looking at?

Is high IQ necessary to be a successful artist? To me, the artist is someone who, through whichever circumstances, became witness to an integral element of human condition and has enough sensibility to transcribe it for others. Clearly artistry requires some baseline of intellect like any other complex skill, but I don't think your ability to solve differential equations is gonna be very helpful in writing a story of a man's struggle.

>>14543345
No, take the EQpill

>>14543345
iq is just a societal adaptation test

>>14542581
Probably underage girls. He was a chomo, same as his wife.

>>14542581
One eye upon you, one eye upon the Caucasus.

>>14541900
>>14542579
good picks

>>14541260
he struggled with basic mathematics during his time in military engineering school, he was by all sensible definitions a brainlet albeit a sensitive and talented one

>>14541260
>THE DEFINING MASTERPIECE OF THE 19TH CENTURY
lol

>>14543378
>>14543415
t.brainlets

Hegel was known to be of average IQ

>>14544343
That has to do with education rather than intellect. Next you will tell me all chess players are smart. And that all university students are smart, you stupid fucking midwit. WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?

Not that guy you responded to.

don't know if anyone is interested in blockchain but this individual is atleast 160 iq on comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi0ORZR4A88

>>14542536
Never read a dumber post in this board.

>>14541225
that sounds about right

>>14544540
vitalik is 220 iq

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>>14544801
Sorry, it's well above 257. The measurements fall off after this. He is aliens.

>I like novels
<100 IQ
>I don't like novels
101-130 IQ
>I like novels
131 IQ +

>>14544540
>he doesn't know Sir Gay is the architect here

>>14544343
Even if that was due to natural inclinations rather than education, being bad at mathematics doesn't make you stupid. Rarely is there a generalist genius. Originally, the use of the world genius didn't have that connotation. Great musicians, mathematicians, sculptors, philosophers, and charismatic leaders were said to have a kind of genius of their own.
And we can understand this through neuroscience, to a degree. Different parts of the brain govern different parts of our experience and action. There's certain areas, like the Broca area and the parietal lobe, associated with language processing and reasoning. Others with spatial processing or reasoning. Not to mention how the rest of nervous system, etc. governs different actions. And I would guess this is why some people are exceptional at reasoning/processing facts and information from words and text, while others do well at reasoning through visual and spatial material.

>>14541204

How about 167 IQ authors?

>>14542581
a tennis match

What is Nick Land's IQ? I have a feeling its low considering he has a complex about it and he went to one of the worst universities in the UK.

110 is the average Ashkenazim IQ.

I did a free test online I got 115, pretty ashamed by it. Me ex girl friend made it for real at a psychiatrist and got 131. No wonder she made me feel shitty all the time and played me like a fool

>>14541204
Alright one you faggots explain why dosto is bad, prove to me this isn’t just contrarian faggotry

>>14541225
I still like him though desu.

>>14542677
>When I was new to my workplace after a couple lunch hours of talking about our interests I simply brought up reading and named a few authors or books I particularly enjoyed, Crime and Punishment being one of my tops. He came to my cubicle not long after and said that I see you as an intellectual

>>14546255
Essex isn't one of the worst in the UK, it's entirely average.

>>14548291
t. essex alumni

>>14544936
>being bad at mathematics doesn't make you stupid
it literally does though

>>14541225
>>14541276
>>14543345
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>>14544514
>>14544801
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>>14544861
>>14545414
>>14546876

WHY IS THIS BOARD TURNING INTO /SCI/ !!!!!!!

>>14544936
>being bad at mathematics doesn't make you stupid
cope

>>14548758
>>>>>>>>>>sci

>>14541225
Salinger's so fuckin based

Creativity and wisdom > pure intelligence

>>14548758
/sci/ will laugh at you if you bring up IQs

>>14548291
source he went to essex?

>>14543345
Sometimes I think high IQ authors get in their own way, they're too obsessed with subverting the form and proving themselves clever that they lose a lot of the smooth subtlety that the more story focussed, low IQ writers have.

Imagination and artistic sensibility are still the most useful traits an author can have.

>>14543378
eq is a term coined by left-brained, low iq brainlets trying to cope. The truly wise don't quantify emotional maturity.

>>14541225
Proof that IQ doesn't matter. He crafted a masterpiece out of virtually average intelligence.

>>14550280
Is his iq documented, or are you just guys just assuming based on Holden?

>>14550304
it's recorded

>>14549902
newfag

>>14547465
this

>>14541260
Defining work of 19th century is Das Kapital. Aks any philosopher.

>>14542677
>assuming that one book is someone's entire philosophy

C&P doesn't exactly have much groundbreaking insight into the world. God's relevance in an uncaring world and the moral agency of a capable individual aren't the headiest themes either. I'll agree though, that calling someone an intellectual after mentioning C&P is pretty damning.

>>14541225
Checked.

>>14550610
I mean yes I agree I was just saying it was one of my favorite books with no other relevance. Also I mentioned others of course.

>>14542536
Any Catholic male born after 1993 can’t talk to girls. All they know is Tolkien, smoke they pipe, drink whiskey, Latin Mass and be online too much

>>14551349
latin mass is giving them too much credit.

>>14550280
which book?

>>14544861
>I fucking hate novels
160+ IQ

>>14544861
>making sure you don't include the same number in two categories
115 IQ tryharding

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>>14550588
That’s not how you spell “The Phenomenology of Spirit”

>>14546255
115-120

>>14554382
>I fucking love novels
190+ IQ