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I'd say that there are different ethical systems to abide by, such as deontological ethics, or utilitarianism. Kant is interesting with his deontological ethics, his attempts to derive universal moral imperatives might seem outdated in this "shades of grey" new world, but I'm sure he still has...

Obviously, a part of the mind would have to be above such irrationality. So, a confluence of rationality and its opposite appears to be a possibility, and needed for the originally presented concept to be viable.

The theme of limits of change.

It's a vampire the masquerade reference.

http://www.cambridgebrainsciences.com/ I've been taking tests at the above website, and it's interesting concerning the variability in being able to increase test scores. Of course, one has to take into consideration novel stimuli, but I would think that this would apply to all the tests, but...

The common wisdom firmly states no, but I've been debating that recently. So, can a crazy person have some level of insight into their irrationality? Thoughts?

I don't know of any authors that are INTP. For some reason, others have told me I could be a professional writer, but I'll never pull it together enough to make that happen :p

Nature of people, and how if I attempted to express my observations they would come across very ineloquently.

I suppose I disagree, I view the universe as full of mistakes. Though, this is one man's non-forceful opinion, so don't mind me.

I'm not sure if the "entirely unoriginal" thing was meant to be sarcastic, but yes I see the point about reading, as it is largely a perceptual task. There was an article that claimed that cramming for the LSAT increase IQ, and cortical thickness. Though, I would think the rate of cortical...

I have read that video games can make one better attend to visual information in general, but I am not sure if they aid in visual pattern recognition.

Spatial intelligence seems like the core of general cognition to me, and it seems fairly immutable, but I'm not certain. Thoughts?

Social phobia and inadequacy.

That probably is a fairly common strategy :p I'm not too socially experienced, but this also seems common. Fleeting pangs of sympathy and pity aside, most people seem to reserve any taxing effort for their loved ones, etc. Which probably makes sense in terms of overall mental health.

I think I read somewhere that the profoundly gifted more often have mental issues than the moderately gifted. I'm not sure if that has been substantiated, and it is hard to say such a thing is causal.

I contemplate suicide nearly every day, because of what kind of person I know I am. That said, I can see the potential gaping hole others might leave by that action. I don't condemn suicide, but they merely are the equivalent of illuminating a dark room for me.

I read something in a psychology textbook that made me wonder, do you see yourself as responding to depressed individuals with hostility, depression, or anxiety?

I think there is a widespread commitment among philosophers to adhere to scientific realism and naturalism. So, there's a synergy there, I guess. I'm not entirely knowledgeable on the subject.

of, relating to, or characteristic of the present or the immediate past Or, not-too-distant past. Is what I meant.

Is the point your non-point?

Good, just checking.

I always have this feeling of there being a large disconnect between myself and modernity. As a result, I feel as if I'm obsessed with it, and not simply technology, but the general culture and the depth of personality that can spring from it. I may be obsessed with modernity, but oddly enough...

I'm merely curious, why didn't the possibility strike you?

Ah, thanks, I didn't make it, though.

For some reason, a feeling of gloom has struck me out of the blue. Many days I can feel the gloom looming on the horizon, but I can usually squash it before it becomes intense. The past few days, I've experienced this general malaise and I've been especially dwelling on my own mortality...

I've always wondered if extrapolating levels of intelligence based off of SAT and ACT scores should be taken more seriously, of course caution should be used because of the ease of increasing scores on SAT/ACT. Are the correlations based off of initial scores? Of course, one could...

Right, and would you agree that his tests (at the time) weren't capable of such distinctions? Are they more capable of such a feat now? Didn't know about the folklore bit.

About That may have been Kaufman, not sure.

I suppose this one sentence sums up your statement best: If the academic tills one field and the intellectual is a hunter pursuing prey across many fields, which one is unemployed? That is true enough, I suppose, concerning the distinction between the two. To my knowledge, Terman and...

One psychologist told me I had severe self-esteem issues. If you knew me, you could emulate that! Aside from that, by my limited experiences with people, being perceived as arrogant is far superior than being perceived as being wildly insecure. Insecurity is like the scent of blood to...

I'm sure there are more than a handful of posters here that have achieved that score. It is true that 140 isn't stratospherically high, although doesn't a 130 on the WAIS translate to approximately 148 on the Cattel? I looked at a conversion chart a while ago, and that was what I remembered...

The average might be somewhat higher, especially for certain forums, true. It just seems ridiculous to me, someone on a forum claims an IQ of 140, and most will respond with blatant apathy, as if such a thing is the norm, which is probably true for the claim itself, but the actual occurrence of...

Ah, never mind.

I've always wondered about the credibility of the notion of those dwelling in the top 2% or above in IQ test performance on internet forums being in a higher concentration than in real life, it does seem more prevalent on certain forums than others in my experience, the claiming of high IQs...

Smoking seems to have a short-term cognitive benefit, but the detriments may present themselves insidiously (and, thus, imperceptibly until it's too late). I read a medical article years ago that suggested the long-term effects of smoking were quite potent, mainly due to restricted blood flow...

Right, and the Flynn effect has effected only certain average subtest scores, while leaving most of the VCI untouched, this may be due to what you said before about crystallized intelligence being a gradual increase. It makes sense that the Flynn effect is seen at the leftmost part of the...

Yeah, it could be mainstream psychology is ill-equipped to completely capture all those things you mentioned. Even so, I find the notion of IQ to be quite interesting, considering some heavily compelling consistent correlations. For instance, in The Better Angels of Our Nature it is explained...

I was estimated by someone with a deep knowledge of psychology (and the gifted in particular) to be in the highly gifted range, which to my understanding is 145-159, although supposedly that could be as low as mid-130s. However, I scored in the normal range, and this same person claimed that...

Yeah, I didn't endorse those suggestions, but merely wondered how you viewed them. Olfactory testing is interesting though, in dogs the part of the brain that analyzes smells is typically 40% larger than it is in humans, but testing for such an innate ability would prove problematic. While I'm...

Camus had a more poetic prose than Sartre. But, from what I've read of Kafka, I prefer his prose over Camus' in that it seemed more original. Regrettably, I haven't read much of Russell and the like, but Wittgenstein impressed me with his seemingly in-depth examination of the philosophy of...

I don't really disagree with anything of what you said, some quick notes on the CHC theory. I'm not sure what you think about these as of yet non-tested aspects of g. Thoughts? (Well, the first isn't tested merely on major tests) As for after a certain point IQ tests measure esoteric...

I do want to be clear on my stance that one doesn't need to be a genius to succeed in academia, I think the average physicist is closer to 125 (could be wrong, here). Also, it's my understanding that extremely high IQs, such as 160/170+ correlate less well with academic achievement...

He perhaps has a five-year old mentality and cannot live on his own (he can do simple tasks). He's definitely happier than I am, in general, but I'd settle for the relatively unbridled happiness of the average person. I'm not claiming above average intelligence, but feel far below the average...

I take it the lucid comment was in response to my professed sleep-deprivation? The world "actually" always gets me paranoid. See what I mean about the insecurity thing? Anyway, I agree that the most intense effort may only meet the minimum intellectual performance requirements when coupled...

http://libarts.wsu.edu/philo/overview/excel.asp According to this article, philosophy students typically have a great advantage when taking standardized tests with scores on the GRE described as: as well as scores on the LSAT Some think that philosophy majors are endowed with these...

I have not read The Stranger, so can't comment on it as a whole. The Myth of Sisyphus I found interesting for the lines such as this: "the lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowned his victory" Anyway, Sartre claimed himself to be more intelligent than Camus during...

Right, I didn't meant to suggest that IQ and academic achievement were the same thing, or that one automatically means the other. But, I would say that academic fields have varying degrees of complexity (utilizing many executive functions, depending on the subject), and if one is successful in...

You make a solid point that higher IQ correlates with ecological data such as low criminality and religiosity. As a sidenote, it is interesting that culture fair IQ tests correlate less well with academic achievement than culturally endowed IQ tests. As for parrying, educational achievement...

It's interesting you bring up the bold point, there was a study which commented on the role of children's motivation accounting for close to a standard deviation in the below average group. I think this can apply to the accumulation of crystallized intelligence as well (reading). As for...

I think I agree with your assertion in the earlier thread, I'd say the average is closer to 120. There seems to be an odd disconnect between real-life lack of claims of high IQ (the reluctance to do so), and practically every forum I've ever been in I encounter "Um, yeah, dudez my IQ is 165...