<p>That’s one of the reasons I think the concept of MENSA is kinda dumb.</p>
<p>anyone who goes to MENSA looking for a date doesnt belong there.</p>
<p>lol… you mean they do belong there. ;)</p>
<p>No offense to any MENSA members reading, but Freemasonry was a much better idea.</p>
<p>Pardon my ignorance, but what is MENSA?</p>
<p>It’s an exclusive organization that one can gain entrance to by taking some kind of IQ test. I believe they even have an SAT I score to IQ score conversion chart. Once you’re in, you pay dues and attend meetings in which you take part in bonding activities with other high-IQed MENSA members.</p>
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I sincerely doubt that anyone chooses dates based on IQs… or SAT scores, for that matter, since we’re on CC. Intelligence comes across in many ways, notably through conversation. If I’m going to date a guy I want us to be able to talk–and many of the things I like to talk about are intellectual in nature.</p>
<p>lol who talks about SAT scores? Even if they do, it will last so long. End right before/after jan? if it doesn’t i’m saying that person should work for Collegeboard. anyways i just like talking to someone with a very calm approach to things. These days i just changed a bit. I’m no more of that emotional person who discussed thing with some kind of emotion. Now i am rather more reserved, inclined to define and discuss the questions underlying the topic and discuss the premise of each theory then go onto the real stuff.
idk i guess i’m just getting old. no offense to legal scholars but i think i’m becoming a kind of JOhn Roberts type of person who analyzes many questions and effects before choosing any side in a debate or discussion. i have to say that all the history and government classes i am taking have strongly affected me to be like this.
anyways i think i’m getting really old. what do u think? it’s just weird for me. currently i’m listening to NIne Inch Nails just to say to myself that i am still young</p>
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I used the example jokingly… I don’t actually believe that people do.</p>
<p>I know what you mean about the rest, though.</p>
<p>sry if my comments sounded harsh b/c if i said it to u directly it probably wouldn’t be. so u r becoming the john roberts type of person? i don’t quite get the last part “i know waht you mean about the rest”</p>
<p>No offense taken. 
For the second part I meant discussing things calmly, analyzing both sides, that sort of thing.</p>
<p>oh that. well i guess that’s a liberal-minded(not in a political sense) attitude. people need to learn that. i seriously think that there r too many people out there to attack the opponent without any consideration of their argument. This applies to both liberals and conservatives.
i just hope that open-minded people increase in numbers then i guess we have hope for world peace and less hatred.</p>
<p>Live and love</p>
<p>To the OP: I already have.</p>
<p>And I’m a girl.</p>
<p>(/me enjoys bumping two-year-old threads!)</p>
<p>I would definitely date someone who wasn’t as intelligent as I am.
Actually, I would rather he be really passionate about something than just really booksmart.
As long as he isn’t a jerk/idiot, he has common sense, and I can hold an interesting conversation with him, it’s all good. haha. </p>
<p>Actually, both of the guys I’m currently crushing on I wouldn’t consider to be at the same academic level as me in terms of class difficulty, etc, but I admire each of them.<br>
One is really into philosophy and an amazing musician. He plays 6 different instruments (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, piano, trumpet, and clarinet. His “worst” is the clarinet and he’s first chair), and he’s learning the drums (he plays the bass drum in drumline).<br>
The other is crazy with computers–he built his own, and he’s a fantastic soccer player and really into the game. And I love soccer players. ahahah.</p>
<p>I don’t care about the person being as book smart as me (which isn’t very smart anyway) but so long as they are smart in terms of decision making.</p>
<p>So long as I can be myself around her is all I care about.</p>
<p>For me to date someone, I have to have geniune respect for them and look up to them, whether that be because of intellect or other reasons. In truth though, my mother is always telling me to find a guys that admires me and loves me more than I love him so that he would always be there for me, but I’m not sure if I could settle for that. Although I have dated guys who aren’t really all that smart, I don’t think I could “settle down” with someone who I didn’t admire.</p>
<p>I don’t think that I could date someone that wasn’t as smart as me. I would want to have intellectual conversations and respect them for having a decent intelligence level.</p>
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<p>But still, how do you define “smartness?” (especially since you didn’t seem to rate my intelligence on basis of IQ scores, SAT scores, etc). While in some cases, it is very clear who the smarter person is, in other cases, the two people have different talents and abilities in such a way such that it’s difficult to ascertain who’s smarter and who isn’t. </p>
<p>(especially if you have such a conviction - for me - I’m not convinced that I’m smarter or dumber than anyone - at least for most of the people I interact with - because intelligence comes in so many ways and forms and can be restrained by many environmental conditions such that it’s not fully realized)</p>
<p>(especially since most people tend to connotatively view intelligence as a product of reasoning ability, instead of test scores?) (it is just that people trust test scores and GPA as a proxy of reasoning ability, since most people who seem intelligent have high test scores and GPA).</p>
<p>And didn’t you tell me that you thought that I was very intelligent? (you even told me that I was smarter than the average Caltech student). Has this assessment drastically changed? (really, I haven’t become any less analytical than I have in the past - maybe I’ve grown more cynical, but it’s just a product of more honesty). </p>
<p>I may be extremely cynical and I may look down on others, and I may form hypotheses commensurate with my antipathy towards society (irrational feelings, yes, but so are feelings commensurate with a respect for society), but does that make me less intelligent? </p>
<p>Remember though, we both see the world in different ways. I tend to see the differences in people, whereas you see the similarities. Who is more accurate? It’s really a matter of perspective.</p>
<p>I’m not angry or anything. But even though I stereotype people to a large extent, I do discount stereotypes in favor of individuals whenever I get to know someone well. But it seems like you topped the thread in order to make a point. Why am I addressing this? I’m really only trying to get an assessment of another’s feelings towards me</p>
<p>And finally, have my endless thoughts, blog posts, and ideas made absolutely no impression on you?</p>
<p>Please just be honest, e-mail me if you have to. Maybe you’d like to permanently be done away with me. I don’t (hell, i’d be totally socially isolated in that case - all my attempts at socialization are failures - for some people, that’s reality), but if you do, that’s understandable. Yes, I do have a conviction that I’m different from others. And the other thing is that I often make initial mistakes whenever I type up any reply or post and have to edit them as such.</p>
<p>The obvious thing that comes to my mind upon reading this question is, “Um…duh.”</p>
<p>Obviously I need to respect whoever I’m dating, and I would like to be able to carry on intelligent conversations with them.</p>
<p>But how do you make sure they’re as “smart” as you? Are you going to ask possible significant others for their transcripts? No.</p>