This is stupid, so yes.

To elaborate on the OP a bit further. I have no problem having day to day small talk with people dumber than me. Of course it's not like i know their IQ's or anything, its just they seem less informed in general about the topics we discuss, and everything needs to be broken down for them to understand it.

I especially used to have this problem before i met my current GF. Girls that are not intelligent enough to hold a conversation are out of the game like right away. Of course i used to be part of the blame, you pick up girls at bars to bang them, not take them to dinner and discuss ****. Anyway, the point is its almost impossible for me to carry any kind of relationship with a female if she is significantly less intelligent than my self.

Day to day morans dont bother me very much at all, except the occassional condescending smirk/comment

Agreed

A lot of my friends are less intelligent than me, and I communicate with them very well. Certain parts of communication seem easier with idiots than they are with geniuses.

For instance, when I'm speaking with less intelligent people I can relax my grammar and not have to be worried about being picked apart by nazis.

I think if you have difficulty communicating with persons of lesser intellect, it's more likely a result of your poor communication skills/patience/adaptation, than a result of their inherent stupidity

Expecting some of my friends to understand complex theories, no matter how laymens i describe them is not a fault of theirs, but of mine...IMO. The problem here would lie in my own misunderstanding of the complex theory, and therefore my own inability to describe it to someone else.

You can't be very intelligent in the first place if you cannot relate well to many types of people.

Sure you can. But you'd want to work on your social skills in that case, which is a major struggle for plenty of highly intelligent people.

This is my biggest life leak.

I usually get fed up with their dumb comments and pointless opinions, need more patience for sure.

I feel your pain.

Eleven posts late.

I don't think many people use such a definition for "intelligent".

What's up with people voting for the first option? Are they serious or are they being rebellious? Why the hell did I include that option in the poll haha.

wasn't going to vote but you just convinced me

i answered moderately assuming it was in the context of having a friendship/things in common...

when it comes to 21yr old sorority girls, all they have to be is hot for it to work. this poll ignores shallowness obv

but when youre 24 you probably wont feel the same way, unless you're barney stinson and are awesome

Einstein wasn't intelligent?

But do you connect with the 21yr old sorority girls? I'd think you just **** them, without connecting with them.

Talking to stupid people is easy and I actually find it quite enjoyable. The problem is average people. I'm not sure what OP means by "connect with" but I assume he means enjoy their company so in that case I'll take the very stupid or the very intelligent and exclude the middle.

+1

It's not that I patronize less intelligent persons, but it's often comforting to be able to relax around them and talk about simple things, in simple ways.

My problem is the average person that thinks they're way smarter than they are and acts like they have something to prove in every conversation

This is such an awkward question to me.

How do you define intelligence? Education? Some kind of abstract notion of a person's way of thinking? I answered the poll and said that I was unaffected, but I think that it's because I don't look down on and "get fed up with" people who I think are less intelligent than I am.

Or, I'm good enough at conversations that I can change a subject if I'm not interested in something someone has to say.

There are many more important traits than intelligence when determining how well people connect, but few let people feel superior when they fail to make a connection.

I'd guess because you're stupid, but I'm not sure because it doesn't seem like we have a good connection.

I agree with this. I think there are different types of intelligence. I've met some super "Jeopardy styles" intelligent people who are pretty piss poor at holding conversations and are socially inept. And I've met some people who are awesome networkers, but probably couldn't solve some of the most basic math equations without a calculator.

I don't understand the question.

is this necessarily the case?

how common do you think it is that people of average intelligence initiate intellectual discussion or try and prove what they do not know?

i think if you do (have difficulties), you have poor(er) social skills then people who don't have difficulties.

today, some Chinese person in my Uni (barely speaks english) asked a classmate if he could partner up. the kid (stoned imo) says "i'm down".

the chinese boy says "what?"

the stoner again, says "i'm down".

If there is a rift between language, intelligence, etc.. you have to be able to compensate for it by adjusting your approach to conversation. It's an important skill imo.

BTW, that stoner is pretty smart from the discussions/arguments he has on economics imo.

If you're as intelligent as you think you are, you would be able to adjust much better to communicating with other people regardless of their intelligence.

You're probably academically smart, and socially dumb.

no

negative correlation /= definition

win