A high “intelligence quotient” is indication of distinguished mediocrity.
Claiming that one is so smart, that one’s IQ is so high that it is hard to relate to other people – and then you notice that those making such claims are usually just math, economics or even computer nerds who pride themselves on being able to edit the Windows registry, tampering with hexadecimal numbers.
Which requires intelligence, but it cannot be concluded that someone who has little interest in those subjects is dumb. A brilliant thinker or poet like Nietzsche or Schopenhauer, a Goethe—verbally extremely gifted for sure—would show little interest. IQ alone does not cut it. Imagine how foreign all those nerds would seem to a Goethe or Jacob Burckhardt: highly educated men.
Says Don Colacho:
A high “intelligence quotient” is indication of distinguished mediocrity.