What Were You Thinking X! - Question 31 (Winner?)

[Randomnamechange]

I thought that the people of this site had more intellectual integrity than this :/

[pirate mollie]

Who needs smarts when you can roll around in a tub of cash?

[pablito]

Multiple intelligences theory?

[Shadoweh]

I thought that the people of this site had more intellectual integrity than this :/

I'm pretty sure I could buy some of that with ten million dollars!
Honestly there's v little I wouldn't do for ten million. I could buy new robotic arms and legs.. buy a new girlfriend..

[Cheery Dog]

I don't believe in IQs, but I believe in money

[DiplomatDC]

More or less what they said. You can't make 10M more with 10 more IQ points...

[Snakes]

Tbh, me personally I wouldn't do that. But i figured more people here WOULD. I like points.

It was the exact opposite for me actually.

[Shadoweh]

Hey Snakes want to go watch Jessica Jones later?

[BipolarChemist]

I have no shame. Dumb and rich here I come <3

[SleepyKrew]

is 10 iq points really that much

[animorpherv1]

Depends. Is your IQ 10?

[SleepyKrew]

damn animorpherv1 you really got me there with that one

[Plotinus]

is 10 iq points really that much

It's not. it's less than a standard deviation. being almost x standard deviations away from the average would not be meaningfully different than being over x standard deviations away. IQ points don't scale with life success in the way that most people think; it's best to be about 1 standard deviation above average, 2 is still okay. Much higher than that and chances of success start going down again.

It's likely that there's only one person in my city who scored higher than me. If I lost 10 points, it'd be likely that about 10-15 people scored higher than me. This wouldn't change my life in any meaningful way. I would also be just as unemployably disabled if I gained 10 points. I'm not in the range where slight fluctuations like 10 points would make any difference whatsoever.

Never going hungry again and being able to move in with my girlfriend, however, would improve my life quite a bit.

[Axxle]

I didn't think most people would actually give it up, but I did think most people would think people would give it as an answer for this game

[xofelf]

buy a new girlfriend..

...oh...

[RedCoyote]

I have no shame. Dumb and rich here I come <3

+1

[RedCoyote]

Plus I'm already beautiful. What more do you need?

[Cephrir]

More or less what they said. You can't make 10M more with 10 more IQ points...

No, but I think I'm happier being smarter and less rich.

Or at least, I think I would be so devastated by becoming dumber that it wouldn't be worth it. If I'd never had the 10 points to begin with, that might be a different story. Feeling yourself being unable to think the way you used to would be agonizing.

[BipolarChemist]

Plus I'm already beautiful. What more do you need?

I'm not, but I could be with $10M

[Randomnamechange]

More or less what they said. You can't make 10M more with 10 more IQ points...

No, but I think I'm happier being smarter and less rich.

Or at least, I think I would be so devastated by becoming dumber that it wouldn't be worth it. If I'd never had the 10 points to begin with, that might be a different story. Feeling yourself being unable to think the way you used to would be agonizing.

Yeah, especially as a lot of my best qualities come from my intelligence

[Felissan]

Imagine the sudden transition between mathematics being intuitive to me, and then having trouble learning it. Even $10M wouldn't compensate for that huge shock to my self-esteem.

[DeasVail]

More or less what they said. You can't make 10M more with 10 more IQ points...

No, but I think I'm happier being smarter and less rich.

Or at least, I think I would be so devastated by becoming dumber that it wouldn't be worth it. If I'd never had the 10 points to begin with, that might be a different story. Feeling yourself being unable to think the way you used to would be agonizing.

This is exactly how I feel.

[Radja]

I just said no because I'm happy with who I am, and losing 10 points might affect my personality which would make me a different person. I wouldn't want that for all the money in the world.

[DiplomatDC]

Maybe it's our life experiences. In terms of intelligence I was branded as above average all my life but I never really felt happy or satisfied with who I am

[Xalxe]

Scoring Answers

Candlestick (24)

- Aronis, Axxle, BipolarChemist, Cephrir, Cheery Dog, D3f3nd3r, DiplomatDC, Felissan, KickAssAndGiggle, lillith2013, N, pablito, pirate mollie, Plotinus, PrivateI, puzzledan, RedCoyote, Save The Dragons, Shadoweh, SleepyKrew, Snakes, T-Bone, talah, xofelf

Revolver/Pistol/Gun (21)

- Aronis, BipolarChemist, Cephrir, DeasVail, DiplomatDC, KickAssAndGiggle, KittyMo, lillith2013, pablito, pirate mollie, PrivateI, Radja, randomidget, RedCoyote, Save The Dragons, SleepyKrew, Snakes, T-Bone, talah, TheBreeze, xofelf

Knife/Dagger (15)

- BipolarChemist, Cheery Dog, DeasVail, Felissan, KickAssAndGiggle, N, pirate mollie, PrivateI, puzzledan, Radja, Shadoweh, SleepyKrew, Snakes, T-Bone, TheBreeze

Rope (12)

- Aronis, Axxle, Cephrir, Cheery Dog, D3f3nd3r, DiplomatDC, KittyMo, lillith2013, Plotinus, randomidget, RedCoyote, Shadoweh

Lead Pipe (10)

- Axxle, DeasVail, N, pablito, Plotinus, puzzledan, Radja, randomidget, Save The Dragons, talah

Wrench (2)

- Felissan, xofelf

Non-Scoring Answers

Axxle - TheBreeze
Crowbar - KittyMo
Letter Opener - D3f3nd3r

Irrelevant Players

Xalxe (51) - Candlestick, Knife, Rope

Scores

Seven perfect scores this time: BipolarChemist, KickAssAndGiggle, pirate mollie, PrivateI, SleepyKrew, Snakes and T-Bone all hit 60.
KittyMo has the lowest score with 33, the highest low score thus far.

Titus gets her first strike and moves down to Level 3.
KittyMo falls to Level 2.