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Originally Posted by zpivat  I'm very interested in anything related to intelligence, and to those of you who know you have a high (i.e: 130 or higher) IQ (or at least have been regularly labelled so by your peers), I wonder how you think? How do you analyze information or situations? Are you almost always able to think quickly, solve problems quickly, understand things quickly? Do you think in a visual or abstract way?
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Don't know if I should be answering this, but I'll give you some of my thoughts on the matter. Analyzing information/situations, I probably go with heuristics for the most part, throwing away what's considered unimportant, retaining what is useful. If I need to actually look over the data, then I try to do so relatively carefully so that I don't miss anything that might contribute to the conclusion. As for speed, it really depends on how well I can relate already known information to something new, solving problems generally take me a while, I find that if I lack the fundamentals in something, it's really difficult to move forward unless whatever thing I might be learning/trying to understand is somewhat isolated. Thinking speed, well, I write relatively slowly, but that may just be due to my typing speed. I don't really know about how to use visual/abstract thinking except that when it is useful to think visually, I can generally picture things in my head. Along with the heuristics above, I think it is also easier to generalize/abstract away details when considering some problems.
As for how I think people with higher IQ think, I think that it's pretty much the same process as any other person, only with more resources and whatnot which allow for greater clarity/processing power. so I suppose it would be 'faster' then, although I don't believe that (the following comes from a biological standpoint, if you don't buy it, then feel free to ignore it
) the speeds at which individual neuron action potentials, given similar neurons, travel are any different, but perhaps the networking is 'stronger' and more 'developed', so to speak. A giant association network, with internal networking as well, i suppose. I also think that that's intelligence in general, meaning that the various areas/strengths that people have, while perhaps more concentrated in certain areas of the brain, all operate under a similar mechanism, just different networking and such (ok, end biological stuff
). Pretty much, if you are 'smarter' then it's easier for you to come to a reasonably good conclusion given a situation.
Other passing thoughts: With IQ, specifically the part about high problem solving ability in academia correlated with low EQ, specifically the part about not being able to 'fit in' socially, it might be correlated, but I don't see any real reason why it has to be that way and for a lot of the intelligent people I've met, it simply isn't the case.
@ MRip: Hopefully, I'm not feeding a troll and you're still lurking the forums and whatnot (but i suppose i'll say this anyway so that it's answered and all
): statistically speaking, well, you can't use statistics here because your
sample (i.e. the people on this forum) is not random, so your argument isn't sound.
@ ElliousKedward: Like Jaiysun4 said, 'get smarter' and remember to take care of yourself. If you don't like the system, at least take away from it what you can and do what you want on your own time. Along with my comments above, I should also point out to you that being depressed isn't a very good place to be. (watch evangelion or something (if you're into anime, you've probably already seen it though), I'm sure you have enough time
).
@ AllyKate: Australia is pretty nice in that it emphasizes social interaction quite a bit, perhaps more than academic intelligence. Hold onto your optimism, it will do you well (but you probably knew that already, didn't you?).