Do you consider yourself smarter than the average Thai?

[Presnock]

15 hours ago, cjinchiangrai said:

Better educated maybe but smarter, no.

absolutely, schooling, paper degrees etc really do not tell how smart one may be.   Compare their survival skills in relation to a non-schooled local in some jungle area.  Having gone through survival training by non-book schooled instructors I quickly learned how DUMB I really compared to them if I needed to survive in many areas of the world.  Even by western standards, survival in many cities is specific too.  Depening on how smart one may be determines how rapid he can recognized whatever skills are needed to survive in any particular area and if lacking find some other place to be.  I have lived and worked in many rather dangerous areas and managed to survive as I learned early on to recognize the possible dangers and what was necessary to avoid that danger.  Just like here in Thailand, reading the news daily lets me know that there are some real dangers here too so there are certain areas I avoid and precautions that i need to take in many other places here.

[Robert_Smith]

1 hour ago, jayboy said:

 

Stupid question from forum time waster.Mods please remove.

awwww, another sensitive snowflake...

 

grow up, kid.

 

regards,

bob.

[transam]

58 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Glad you recognize that but for my keyboard problems, my posts are almost perfect. Thank you. 

Can't buy a keyboard where you are......................

[Mark1066]

16 hours ago, Robert_Smith said:

Just an empirical question, tis all...

 

Try not to take it too personally.

 

regards,

bob.

There's so much bigotry on this forum already, why would you try to encourage more?

 

From my personal experience, every foreigner thinks they're smarter and better educated but unfortunately they're far too stupid to see the irony in their situation. Judging by your replies so far, you're certainly no exception.

[spidermike007]

It's actually a very subjective subject and it's rather condescending. Kind of a typical "we white people are so vastly superior" type meme.

 

My Thai woman for example has a high school education but is absolutely brilliant, she has an incredible memory she's taught herself fluent reading and writing of Elglish, she has the mind of a structural or mechanical engineer, she can just look at something and she knows how to take it apart and put it back together, her mind works like a high-speed computer and after nearly 20 years together she continues to astonish me with her intelligence. But it's a very practical form of intelligence, she's not a philosopher, she's not into the higher sciences, but she's very curious and she's constantly teaching herself about the world and it's quite fascinating to watch the way she processes stuff. Her mind is lightning quick. 

 

Thais have a completely different way of looking at the world, and a completely different way of relating to the world, and it makes it very difficult for us to truly evaluate their intelligence, but I think we consistently underestimate them. 

[Lacessit]

52 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

My spellchecker adds more problems than it catches!

 

Back to the OP,

I'm smarter than everyone, no need to specifically look down on Thais!

If you are so smart, how did your former wife manage to shag someone behind your back?

[Ralf001]

39 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

They are hiring in the Democratic Party and the NY Times, too bad the border is shut they could have come over and got jobs.

Please do not reply to my posts with your american political nonsense.

[BritManToo]

7 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

If you are so smart, how did your former wife manage to shag someone behind your back?

All women do that, impossible to stop them.

[Lacessit]

2 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

All women do that, impossible to stop them.

Doesn't answer my question.

[BritManToo]

18 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Doesn't answer my question.

In our society we are indoctrinated from birth that our wife will be loyal and faithful and supportive.

Doesn't matter how smart you are, indoctrination nearly always wins.

 

Only experience allows us to break free, they will be unfaithful, they will asset strip you, they will bear false witness against you, they will deny you access to your children, NONE are different, it's in their genetic programming. Only fear of extreme punishment (or lack of opportunity) will stop this.

 

Allowing it to happen a second time is what sorts smart from stupid!

 

In Muslim countries where women gain nothing from divorce, and death from cheating, there is neither divorce nor cheating.

[transam]

2 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

In our society we are indoctrinated from birth that our wife will be loyal and faithful and supportive.

Doesn't matter how smart you are, indoctrination nearly always wins.

 

Only experience allows us to break free, they will be unfaithful, they will asset strip you, they will bear false witness against you, they will deny you access to your children, NONE are different, it's in their genetic programming. Only fear of extreme punishment will stop this.

 

Allowing it to happen a second time is what sorts smart from stupid!

 

In Muslim countries where women gain nothing from divorce, and death from cheating, there is neither divorce nor cheating.

Most of that applies via a divorce from a nasty husband...........🥴

 

Court rulings.........😉

 

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........

[Ralf001]

20 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

If you are so smart, how did your former wife manage to shag someone behind your back?

 

Usually it is the dumb ones that go rooting behind the back of their golden goose.

[Ralf001]

7 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

they will asset strip you, they will bear false witness against you, they will deny you access to your children, NONE are different, it's in their genetic programming. Only fear of extreme punishment (or lack of opportunity) will stop this.

 

 

 

Defo a hard call to call em dumb !

[erectem]

16 hours ago, proton said:

According to this list Thai IQ is higher than USA and UK, hard to believe when a lot need a calculator to add up 25 and 10

 

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country

A higher IQ than USA and  UK  is very believable.

[Ralf001]

Just now, erectem said:

A higher IQ than USA and  UK  is very believable.

 

I reckon the rednecks and african american peeps in the USA are pulling the average down.

[Robert_Smith]

Well I think it's plain to see that once again the AN crowd have come out and voted with what we all already knew: 

 

the vote currently stands at 77.08% YES vs 22.92% NO.

 

Thank you to all that have voted thus far.

 

regards,

bob.

[Yagoda]

43 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Please do not reply to my posts with your american political nonsense.

Please do not read my posts without understanding the terms imagery, irony, symbolism, satire, cynicism and patriotism.

[Yagoda]

19 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

I reckon the rednecks and african american peeps in the USA are pulling the average down.

There is a correlation between poverty and poor IQ

[Yagoda]

56 minutes ago, transam said:

Can't buy a keyboard where you are......................

You really have a sad, lonely life dont you?

[transam]

Just now, Yagoda said:

You really have a sad, lonely life dont you?

There is nothing wrong with my keyboard, if there was, I would buy a new one, if I didn't, I would live a sad and lonely life.........😥

[Ralf001]

16 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Please do not read my posts without understanding the terms imagery, irony, symbolism, satire, cynicism and patriotism.

please (politely) <deleted> off with your political <deleted>.

[madone]

16 hours ago, Mike_Hunt said:

This not statistically valid for sure.  

agreed

[sungod]

3 hours ago, Lacessit said:

One that lives rent-free in your head, apparently. Have a nice day.

 

At least my head is not wedged up my own a........

 

Bye

[save the frogs]

I recently met a girl who made a fool out of me.

So I must be stooopid.

I don't know what my IQ is, and I don't think I wanna know.

Good luck to all of yous guys who think you're smart cuz there's always somebody out there who will outwit you one day. 

 

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

please (politely) <deleted> off with your political <deleted>.

maybe you are inviting political remarks with your avatar.

why not put a picture of a dog instead?

 

[jimmybcool]

5 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

You realize almost anyone in the west doing the classical not much saying IQ test is scoring above average right? Specially once adult? It says zero about your true intelligence. All it says you are not an absolute moron who can only do manual labour. I also score 130+ on those.

 

Well no actually I think you are wrong.  I am not expert so open to being corrected.  I think the results in the west are on a scale so that 100 is always the average.  But, there are more 90 IQ people than 110.  Not sure of the details but anyway the average person in the west should be within 90-110 range with more below the 100 line.  Not that any of that matters I also test higher than average and did so very young without much education at the time. 

[Keeps]

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

My spellchecker adds more problems than it catches!

 

Back to the OP,

I'm smarter than everyone, no need to specifically look down on Thais!

I don't fink yous is more cleverer then I is. I woz tops of me clas for spelin (an gramar)...

[Mike_Hunt]

4 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Why? I am proud of my achievements in life.

 

OTOH, you probably have much to be modest about.

I know, you never shut up about how smart you are. 

[ElwoodP]

Flame removed, polite and civil posts only.

[Jonathan Swift]

19 hours ago, Robert_Smith said:

Just an empirical question, tis all...

 

Try not to take it too personally.

 

regards,

bob.

How about just a stυpid question? BTW tests don't really mean anything, they're known to be biased toward white caucasian Americans. Cramming for tests doesn't generally show what you've learned or your abilities, only what you've memorized. There are many forms of intelligence, many types of problem solving skills on top of emotional intelligence, for which there are no tests. Your question sounds racist. Differences in education categorized by race do not mean that an ethnic group is smarter than another. A lot depends on economic advantage, same as in any other country. I consider Thai people generally more peaceful and in many ways more evolved than the average arrogant entitled westerner. Why don't you see if you can come up with a question or two that might serve to educate you in some useful way? My bet is that you could use it. Lastly, let's turn the question around. I consider the average Thai person to be more intelligent than you.