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[Anonymous No.11006933]

How good are people at estimating their own IQ or intelligence?

Was there any research done on this topic?

[Anonymous No.11006934]

>>11006933
A good rule of thumb is that if you are compelled to post frogs, it's likely very low.

[Anonymous No.11006935]

>>11006933
Usually, smart people know that they're smart (contrary to popular belief), while the dumb don't know that they are dumb

[Anonymous No.11006936]

>>11006935

so dumb people know their smart too?

so everyone thinks they're smart?

[Anonymous No.11007039]

>>11006933
Research has been done, but in a generalized from. The question was how competence in X influences once self-evaluation of X. The result is the Dunning-Kruger-Effect. It predicts that incompetent people overshoot and competent people undershoot their self-assessment. Explanation: Incompetent people lack the skills to acurately measure their level of competency (because those are also the skills needed to be competent) and default to a favorable self-assessment.
This should generalize to IQ, I would bet that there is research on it.
Also keep in mind that this does not tell you anything about a given individual; we are in psychologyland here. That means that many effects just appear when you look at millions of people. (I.e. if you were to make a business abusing the Duning-Kruger-Effect, it won't work on 200 people, you would have to way increase your reach to make a reliable profit.)

[Anonymous No.11007040]

>>11006933
>Was there any research done on this topic?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

[Anonymous No.11007049]

>>11006933
Dumb people think that they're smart, smart people think that they're "above average". However, geniuses know that they're geniuses but still have some doubts from time to time.

[Anonymous No.11007087]

>>11006935
If both smart and dumb people think they're smart, but the dumb ones both outnumber and have a higher chance of doing so. It'd be rational to assume that all people who go "me smart" are dumb.

[Anonymous No.11007093]

>>11006933
My google ad profile thinks I’m 50 years old but I’m 25. Does that mean my IQ is 200?

[Anonymous No.11007199]

>>11006933
I have a tested IQ of 128 (as part of ADHD diagnosis). I feel retarded sometimes, but I'm good at conceptualizing abstract concepts. I doubt myself a lot. I'd assume that most people overestimate their IQ. Humans are wishful thinkers.

[Anonymous No.11007626]

>>11007039
>and competent people undershoot their self-assessment.
you forgot to explain this part
dunning's theory is that the task is easy for them, so they underestimate the difficulty of the task

[Anonymous No.11008702]

>>11007199
I've also been tested for the same reason (134). Most of the time, I get this crippling anxiety that I'm wrong about whatever task I may be doing, so I don't do anything at all.

[Anonymous No.11008732]

>>11007087
>if most individuals among [me smart] are [actually dumb] it's rational to assume all individuals among [me smart] are [actually dumb]
It's rational to assume you're [actually dumb].

[Anonymous No.11009428]

>>11006933
Everyone believes they're more intelligent than average. In answer to your question, yes, this is what's called a cognitive bias (ways in which we assess information differently as it applies to ourselves vs. how it applies to everyone else) and it's been researched to death.

[Anonymous No.11010747]

>>11006934
A good rule of thumb is knee jerk reactions to memes (and not even the correct one) because 4chan told you to cry about them indicates low IQ
>>11006933
If you're constantly questioning your own intelligence instead of walking around thinking about how smart you are all day that's a good sign

[Anonymous No.11012429]

>another IQ thread