Most intelligent posters

[Mr. Peabody]

I think Oh, Gee!! has the most intelligent post on this thread.

[Kori Ellis]

Interesting thread

I'm not sure how much intelligence you can tell from a message board. Of course, you can tell who is well read, writes well, or argues well. As for intelligence, there are a lot of people who can recall facts, history, etc. They are very good trivia experts with good memories, but not necessarily intelligent. There are others that will only talk about subjects they know well, but aren't well-rounded in their knowledge. Others are very good at logic, mathematical and otherwise.

I know that we have posted IQ test results here before and the scores were astronomically higher than any average group of people. My only conclusion from that is that SpursTalk attracts smart people and/or good liars.

[Milton.]

Saying a ST poster is intelligent is like putting lipstick on a ..........................

[polandprzem]

Interesting thread

I'm not sure how much intelligence you can tell from a message board. Of course, you can tell who is well read, writes well, or argues well. As for intelligence, there are a lot of people who can recall facts, history, etc. They are very good trivia experts with good memories, but not necessarily intelligent. There are others that will only talk about subjects they know well, but aren't well-rounded in their knowledge. Others are very good at logic, mathematical and otherwise.

I know that we have posted IQ test results here before and the scores were astronomically higher than any average group of people. My only conclusion from that is that SpursTalk attracts smart people and/or good liars.

You can't tell from a message board but you can call people stupid ...

[Kori Ellis]

You can't tell from a message board but you can call people stupid ...

Some people are obvious.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Interesting thread

I'm not sure how much intelligence you can tell from a message board. Of course, you can tell who is well read, writes well, or argues well. As for intelligence, there are a lot of people who can recall facts, history, etc. They are very good trivia experts with good memories, but not necessarily intelligent. There are others that will only talk about subjects they know well, but aren't well-rounded in their knowledge. Others are very good at logic, mathematical and otherwise.

I know that we have posted IQ test results here before and the scores were astronomically higher than any average group of people. My only conclusion from that is that SpursTalk attracts smart people and/or good liars.

You know your realm well, and rule fairly with your velvet fist.



PS I'm can be either subtle, or subtle as a sledgehammer, but few people get that. Oh well.

[polandprzem]

Some people are obvious.

aha

[Salad Tosser]

You know your realm well, and rule fairly with your velvet fist.

You trying to put me out of a job?

[Mr. Dictionary]

pret·er·i·tion

–noun
1. the act of passing by or over; omission; disregard.
2. Law. the passing over by a testator of an heir otherwise en led to a portion.
3. Calvinistic Theology. the passing over by God of those not elected to salvation or eternal life.
4. Rhetoric. paralipsis.
[Origin: 1600–10; < LL praeteritiōn- (s. of praeteritiō) a passing by. See preterit, -ion]

[DeeBo]

You know your realm well, and rule fairly with your velvet fist.

Yo dawg don't wear out the nipples, leave some milk for the rest of us!

[smeagol]

Interesting trend of new "who's the most . . ." threads.

I agree that the tests that RG talks about don't really tell you who's the most intelligent because they seem to be general knowledge tests (and biased towards things related to Amercia).

Other tests such as IQ tests would definetly tell a more accurate story.

I still believe you can tell from how people write about different topics, who is an intelligent person.

[polandprzem]

hahha
smeagol you need the answer for some specific reasons?

[balli]

I still believe you can tell from how people write about different topics, who is an intelligent person.

I agree. Research has shown time and time again the extremely high correlation between a good vocabulary and intelligence. And while this may too be biased against our non-American peers, I believe anecdotal assessments of vocabulary and prose mechanics are more than useful in forming our own opinions about the intelligence of other posters.

Edit: There's plenty of research out there that I'd like to cite, but stupid google books and JStor show everything in .pdf. Here's a link though:

http://books.google.com/books?id=69c...um=4&ct=result

[ducks]

what kind of thread is this
who the started this gargage thread

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

what kind of thread is this
who the started this gargage thread

Pretty obvious it's smeagol, dumbass.

[smeagol]

Pretty obvious it's smeagol, dumbass.

And that is why dumbass . . . I mean ducks is not on my most intelligent posters list

[Biernutz]

intelligent posters --is that a oxymoron?

[ploto]

I think a great deal of it has to do with the particular subjects that are discussed here. There are people who show their insight or education with regards to sports, or legal issues, or political issues but that does not necessarily make them intelligent, possibly just well-informed or well-read. There are entire arenas of human knowledge that are not even touched upon at all on here that may require higher levels of natural intelligence to grasp.

[Tits McGee]

Not too many real intellectuals here, just a uva lot of blowhards.

[RashoFan]

Saying a ST poster is intelligent is like putting lipstick on a ..........................

Somebody listening to "El Rushbo" today???

[pedicure expert]

That picture was created 12 or more hours before his show was on the air. thus the question is does Rush read the club!

[TheSanityAnnex]

And that is why dumbass . . . I mean ducks is not on my most intelligent posters list

At least ducks can spell correctly.

[smeagol]

At least ducks can spell correctly.

He sure can . . . in one out of ten posts . . .

[Blake]

Me smartiest poster of all time.

[balli]