What does it say about an educated person who NEVER dots his i's??
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He's in a hurry all the time.  No attention to detail.
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To express your knowledge in an adequate way. At least in the education subject. An intellectual person.
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I think it has less to do with an academic lifestlye and more to do with a natural predisposition.\n\nMy IQ is >140, but sometimes I can be dumb as a stick! I think that our brains are just wired differently. We relate to the world differently, and things that are perfectly logical to us sometimes make no sense to anyone else. \n\nPlease don't think I'm an elitist, because I am most definitely not. But to me common sense refers to the perceived common knowledge or understanding of the average population, who comprise the majority. Because we are a minority group, our understanding of the world is uncommon and sometimes considered a flaw rather than just a difference.\n\nOf course, these are the kinds of people you will find in career academic and highly specialized professions because of their intelligence, but their apparent lack of common sense didn't "happen to them" as the result of a sheltered existence. It is just who they are.
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To say someone is intelligent, sounds to be as if there is more "awe" in your description, "He/She is really intelligent." (almost as if you see yourself as less so)\n\nTo hear someone called clever, that has an amused quality to it, "That clever one fooled me once shame on them, but if they fool me twice shame on me". Not to imply a negativity, but just that cleverness seems a bit like a trick learned. Cleverness seeming to get people out of awkward situations and what not.\n\nWhere intelligence won't necessary boil down to savvy-ness. A person can be quite intelligent, and still find themselves in a pickle. Which they will resolve with careful examination and reason.\nA clever person will find themselves in a pickle, and see one of the few options out, be daring and go for it, and find themselves on the other side of the problem, having made it by the skin of their teeth.\n\nI like being considered intelligent, but I love to hear when I've been clever. Makes me think I'll live longer.
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Patience is paramount.  Like children.  A love to impart knowledge.  Relevant degree.  These days you have to have great organisational skills and excellent communication skills too.  You are not a screamer!
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Yes, you can lack common sense. I have a high IQ but the simplest things don't make sense to me sometimes. Experience is the best teacher.
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Agree with Ace.  Any I.Q. test that asks questions you can look up on the web is not much of an I.Q. test.  I.Q. is *intelligence*, not fact-regurgitation (or even knowing what "regurgitation" means).\n\nThat said, for beginner's questions about physics, history, pop culture, etc.\n\nOne word: Wikipedia.
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Open-mindedness.\n\nOnly an idiot thinks they know everything.  A truly intelligent person recognizes that they have a lot to learn!
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You can really see it in a spectrum:\n\nIndividual, Society, Pragmatism and Idealistic.\n\nIndividual - character development, develop yourself as a whole person.\n\nSociety - To communicate with others. (Imagine being illiterate. That would be abysmal wouldn't it?) Also to make sound decisions, to carry out democracy. If you are not educated, how can you make decisions like voting etc that concern the welfare of yourself, your community, your state and your nation?\n\nPragmatism - Education is partly to make money. Really. OK I was kidding. Education is to prepare yourself to compete in the global market. In this time in the world, which is the modern today, what we need is a Knowledge Based economy. To put it a little more harshly, if you don't have at least a degree from a decent university, you're unlikely to survive the next couple of years, and I'm not even mentioning retirement. Picture that. Because there'd always be people who are better than you, people who'd trample onto you... if you don't have that certificate to prove that you're worth a high salary, how are you going to support yourself?\n\nIdealistic - ultimately, the idealistic aims of education is to prove that man are masters of the world, to differentiate between mankind and animals. Really.
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This question is to easy to answer;\n\nthose individuals that you are asking about have no respect for themselves... they recognize themselves as potential failures and therefore; they need to feel better about themselves... \n\nThe plain truth is that after the above thought goes through their unexercised brain..they haven't the ability, or knowledge to express their thoughts in any other fashion.\n\nYou, on the other hand, must be sensitive, caring, thoughtful and highly intelligent....thanx for making our world a better place in which to live.
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I like to think of myself as an intelligent person. I'm a mom , a step-mom, and an aunt to several.  I've also been a teacher for 11 years....and I'm ashamed to admit I HAVE NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT. Thank you so much for sharing. In answer to your question, I guess people are like me and have never really thought about it.
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It takes a special sort of intelligence to attract me to be honest...\n\nEmotional Intelligence is a wonderful thing that gravel-tates me\n\nPlus, being clever enough to get away with being absolutely retarded is a thing that I love too...me and my buds are very good at this!!
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You are going to find arrogant, over-opinionated, under-educated people no matter what area you look.  There will always be those who want to shove their education down your throat.  However,  you will find just as many willing to shove it down your throat that they dropped out of school.  I personally think both types are trying to cover the fact that they feel inferior, no matter their lack, or abundance, of education.\n\nI had a professor once whose favorite line was about what the initials after a name meant.\nB.S.--you can guess\nM.S.--more of what you can guess\nPh.D.--piled higher and deeper
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Are you talking about George W. Bush or George H.W. Bush or some other George Bush?  Your sentence should read "He faked his way through college on a phony scholarship."  I wonder what is your IQ?  You can't even form your thoughts into the form of a question.  I worry about people who are so shallow that they base their whole selfworth on a high IQ score.  If they need to brag about it online, that should give you some insight into their insecurity.  As for President George W. Bush, one should remember that wisdom and character are not based on IQ.  Anyway to think that he has an IQ of 88 is silly.  I'm sure Bill Clinton had a higher IQ, but he scored a zero in the wisdom and character test.\n\nNOTE TO Under Dog:\nI have read what you wrote about me.  I apologize if I have offended you.  I now understand that you do not want to debate or have differing points of view expressed when you post a nonquestion.  I have learned from an associate that you suffer from use of the drug effexor and that it may not be helping you with your depression.  This might explain your anger with me and your frustration with life.  Please, for your own sake, get some help.  Don't take it all so seriously.  Have some fun.\n\nGood luck!
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intelligent people without their head up their ^$$
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No it does not mean u are stupid.. Einstion had special education.. was he stupid ? if yes then good... stupids are famous.. do things over which the wolrd is proud... \n\nSpecial Education is for people who are really very special to the worl want to be ahead of everyone and prove the worl their abilities to do things diferently... People who do things the easy and old tested way are lazy and think that people who do things differently are stupid...\nBut its not so.. Its a innovative idea and way of doing things...\n\nSo u are special in all ways...
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There are many different ways to be intelligent.  I don't consider myself to be clever either, but I am bright and educated.  I would say focus on your strengths and don't worry about your weaknesses.