Prog Fans: High IQs?

My IQ is 134, am I smarter or stupider than you?

i think i've got the point:

there are among prog fans intelligent fans & stupid fans; those who are intelligent like intelligent prog and never stupid prog; those who are stupid like some stupid prog.

now the question is to give names for stupid prog, and i think i'll keep them inside my thoughts, in order to avoid controversy

I think that you dont have to be smart to like prog but many people who do, are. But not everyone who is smart likes Prog, they may prefer Classical or jazz or somthing a little more mainstream that lets them get away from any need to think. Personally I think that anyone who is looking for a moor inteligent form of popular music (i.e. prog) will be quite smart and will find prog, wether they like it depends on wether its their cup of tea or not.  

I like Rhapsody a lot! Does that make me an intelligent progger? 

I'm not a very intelligent music fan. I know very little abotu the technical side of music. I don't know anything about scales or chords or time signatures, and I have very little exerpience with any instruments.(I took a year of piano lessons and remember almost nothing)

However, that doesn't mean I can't appreciate more complex music. One of my first favorite bands was Phish, so I learned early to appreciate longer compositions, which is why I like prog and post-rock.

Have not read this eltist thread, but ever since there is a group that usurped this name with derivative music , I always knew that progheads were definitely not more worthy humans just because of their music tastes!

No offence meant , but took a good look at yourselves before having to judge others who are into different music styles. This would mean that the Jazz Purists and Classical nutheads would have even higher IQ than progheads!

Edited by Sean Trane

For one, I don't think anyone has mentioned even once on this thread the issue of social intelligence. You can have logical, linguistic, mathematical, and several other kinds of intelligence in spades and lack everything about social intelligence. Perfect example being the stereotypical science geek or engineer.

My point is there is no point! The only thing this kind of argument seems to do is bring out the elitist in us.

Y'know, there is an incredibly intelligent guy I go to school with who is amazing at Physics. He listens to a blend of classical music and mainstream rap/hip-hop. I'm talking 50 Cent here.
There is another incredibly intelligent guy I go to school with who is amazing at math and programming. He listens to pop. Like Mariah Carey (she of the famous thread), Britney, Celine Dion, Black Eyed Peas, etc.
Then there's me, who can't do physics worth crap (the only reason I'm still in the program is because you get by with a little help from your friends), who has to memorise how to do calculus problems, who dies a little on the inside every time she has a programming assignment, and who listens to classic 70's prog. Go figure.

Edited by little_neutrino

CaptainWafflos wrote: kirklott wrote: However, even the informal online tests can be somewhat accurate - I took one once, at it exactly matched the two formal ones I've taken. Out of curiosity, which online test did you take?

I think it's the one below. It took about 30 minutes, and it was fun and the questions actually got pretty challenging toward the end.

http://www.iqtest.com/

The fact that my results were dead accurate could be coincidence.

 

Sean Trane wrote: Have not read this eltist thread,

Just curious, but how can you call this thread elitist is you haven't read it? That's sort of politically-correct, knee-jerk dogma, isn't it?

It's interesting, but I've started some possibly inflamatory off-topic threads in this newsgroup (such as Did Bush dupe Christians?) which have lead to intelligent, respectful, and thoughtful discourse.

On the other hand, this thread is more difficult. We've all been taught since day one it's ok for someone to say he or she is mentally challenged or tall or overweight or have green hair or whatever.

But it's very, very naughty to say you're smart. Which is really quite stupid.

I dont think so.

There are alot of stupid people out there, chances are some of them like prog.