Reply to: How clever are you compared to the rest of CUK?

[TimberWolf]

I wasn't sure what clever was so played safe and voted for the answer with the most votes.

p.s. being clever isn't very clever.

[stingman123]

OK, I was making a point it's unlikely to average out to anything near what it should be, given the high egos. I realise we won't know that until everyone registered posts, and that is unlikely to happen. Having said that a sample of 30 usually appoximates to normality, so when we get there the result is likely to be similar to the whole population.

edit: we know have a population of 30 (not randomly selected) but 11 are in the top percentile.

Eh?

[BrowneIssue]

What is intelligence anyway ?

Remembering to ask your team members if they are eligible to enter the competition before the filming starts...

...Gail

[Churchill]

Is the correct answer, which I also voted as well.

The reason being that it would be statistically wrong to choose anything else.

By virtue of not having any reliable means of gauging the intelligence of others, the only thing you can correctly state with more reliability is that "other people are more intelligent than you".

Statistically speaking, a group of other people will always contain enough samples to confirm your statement.

However, by limiting yourself to saying that you are in the 1%, you effectively stack the odds of probability against yourself, because you are saying that out of a group of unknown size, you are within the top 1%.

The odds on such a statement are not as favourable as the more people are intelligent than me odds.

Sally, you chose wisely :-)

I bet the 1%'ers are kicking themselves now

Oh dear...

[Board Game Geek]

Sally Anne posted : I voted "below average

Is the correct answer, which I also voted as well.

The reason being that it would be statistically wrong to choose anything else.

By virtue of not having any reliable means of gauging the intelligence of others, the only thing you can correctly state with more reliability is that "other people are more intelligent than you".

Statistically speaking, a group of other people will always contain enough samples to confirm your statement.

However, by limiting yourself to saying that you are in the 1%, you effectively stack the odds of probability against yourself, because you are saying that out of a group of unknown size, you are within the top 1%.

The odds on such a statement are not as favourable as the more people are intelligent than me odds.

Sally, you chose wisely :-)

I bet the 1%'ers are kicking themselves now

[SallyAnne]

I voted "below average"

[PRC1964]

I ticked the top 1% option.

Because I'm not clever enough to count higher than one.

[deckster]

I'm just surprised that anybody voted for anything other than the 'top 1%' option. I thought an unshakeable belief on ones own superiority was a required personality trait for a contractor.

[Francko]

And the chances of people lying are how big?

The chance that you are lying is high too. And therefore the chance that they are lying is not big?

[BrilloPad]

Shouldn't we just state our normal day rates? After all the really clever members will be able to charge 500+ a day ? I've not yet gone above 250, so I must qualify as the Dim option.

And the chances of people lying are how big?

[MPwannadecentincome]

Just spent 8 hours on a bug.

Probably the bottom 1%.

that depends - if it was a really really difficult bug it might have taken the other 99% of people 80 hours to fix!

[d000hg]

the poll IS meaningless...

those who want to be clever will put themselves in the top 1%

That's the whole point... it's as much a measure of arrogance as anything else.

By "crowd" I mean those who actually post here, not really % of the X thousand registered members who never say anything.

And yes, I meant to make it a public poll but was too dumb to remember

[minestrone]

Just spent 8 hours on a bug.

Probably the bottom 1%.

[Pogle]

Welcome to the poll.

DOH!

[Churchill]

I think anyone with any brains would stay away from this poll

Welcome to the poll.