Do some extremely intelligent people strike you as rude?

Question

I work part time in a university. I spend alot of time with professors and gifted students. I have been asked by many people how I "tolerate their *********". I get along fine with my co-workers for the most part. I do notice they spend alot of time comparing IQ scores and knowledge in different subjects, but I've always assumed that's just their way of challenging themselves. I'm asking, because I've been approached and asked questions similar to this a number of times. On top of that, I'm one of them. I've never been told that I act cocky or conceited in anyway, and that's why I made sure to add the word "some" in my queston. Serious answers only, please.

Answer 1

As I'm sure you understand, there is a misconception that just because you're Gifted or of higher intelligence that you must be smart in ALL subjects AND want to show it off. Yes, I've known some people like this that feel the need to show off their IQ scores, but most of the kids in MY gifted class in school (including myself) just tried to downplay it. I was VERY good at reading and English, but VERY poor in Math because of confusion in Elementary School.

Many of those people DO use the IQ scores as a challenge, I think, though many just like to debate and learn - which "normal" (if you will) people look at as bragging.

Sometimes I've been told I can come across as b**chy (MY edit, not Yahoo!'s), but I think that's because people give me weird looks when I DO open my mouth. It's easier to be quiet and learn where people are at than to go ahead and give my opinion and reasoning and get the weird, "Woah, that was over my head, you must be a GEEK!" look.

And some of them are rude because they just have not learned how to interact properly with others of their own age. It's hard to be in Elementary school and have an understanding level of at LEAST middle school (if not high school or adult level!). Elementary school kids interact differently than adults do, and to have a more adult outlook on relationships can be VERY detrimental to young kids.

Answer 2

I think most extremely intelligent people are rude and impossibly arrogant at least at some point in their lives.

I certainly was the first time I took an IQ test at nine or ten. I felt so scared of being rejected by peers that I would project this pride to make them feel I was too good for them.

Later in life, I started seeing that it's more important that people are good.

And sometimes I revert a little when I see people who aren't bright and treat women like objects, or cheat in daily life, but I try to be gracious anyway and think of it as a product of bad upbringing.

I think I really started being more realistic when I got to college especially, because even though I dominated my gifted high school classes, there were smarter people in university. And I thought of how I had alienated really good people with my conceitedness, and resolved to become someone who could talk with anyone, feel compassion for anyone.

Answer 3

If people can only compare their IQ's, they are mainly just egotistic lame brains. Life does not revolve around IQ. Having a high IQ will not make you a better friend or parent or anything else.

I have a high IQ and tested in the top 2% of high school seniors by the time is was eleven. The trick has to been to be able to relate to everyone as an equal, because they are! We're all here together and not for the purpose of comparing our intellects.

Answer 4

Many people with high IQs think that they are better than others - that accounts for their arrogance and *********|

But the thing that we have to realize is that, most often, they lack basic common sense|

Many of them can boast of multiple degrees and top of the class scores, but they are unable to understand the most elementary truths of existence, that any normal child can understand (the judge says to 7 year old Virginia: "You do understand the difference between right and wrong, don't you")|


That is the meaning of the text in Romans (I think) that says that they considered themselves wise, but became fools instead - or in another place he talks about people who are always learning, but never coming to a knowledge of the truth|

St Paul and his epistles have never been more relavant than they are today|


Also read the book of *Sirach|* It is in the Catholic Bible but not the Protestant one| If you read it, it doesn't even look like religion at all, but just the most amazing guide to living life in a common sense way| So many enigmas and difficulties of life are explained in that book|

Get the *New American Bible* - which is a Catholic Bible (not the New American Standard or whatever it is called) - preferrably the 1970 and not the 1986 edition|





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Answer 5

Yes it is true that some intelligent poeple act cocky around their peers. but not all do.some believe that they are better in iq related activities because they excell in that subject, like a macho man showing off his muscles. but some also see that even they are prone to make mistakes at their specialty and realize that they just happen to have a talent for smarts. they compare iqs to see how they compare to others.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Rudeness is not related to intelligence. They are different aspects of what makes a person who he or she is. Intelligence is an enabling gift and rudeness is an acquired behavior. I find that some people who are trying to appear more intelligent than they really are can be very rude. Rudeness is probably related more to those who are unsure of their selfworth.
Also, shyness is often mistaken for rudeness. Rudeness perceived is not always rudeness in fact.

Answer 8

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
-George Bernard Shaw

It also seems to me that the rudest word, the rudest letter are still more benign, more decent than silence. Those who remain silent are almost always lacking in delicacy and courtesy of the heart. Silence is an objection; swallowing things leads of necessity to a bad character -- it even upsets the stomach. All who remain silent are dyspeptic.

You see, I don't want rudeness to be underestimated: it is by far the most humane form of contradiction and, in the midst of effeminacy, one of our foremost virtues.
-- Frederick Nietzsche

Answer 9

I doubt that extremely intelligent people are any ruder than any other group of people. Its just that when they are they are probably harder to take since their intelligence was 'given' to them as opposed to their having had to 'earn' it.

Answer 10

Oh ya, I think the more intelligent the more ignorant in the social graces.