Intelligence Equalizer

I am Intelligence elitist. It's not that I think I'm superior to everyone, it's more that I think I'm superior to MOST everyone. I judge, and I have strict criteria. As I see it Intelligence can be broken down into infinite parts, depending on what you see as important traits for an Intelligent being, as long as you are Intelligent enough to make the distinctions, but for me the most important aspects of Intelligence, and this is a very basic synopsis, are; Common Sense, Problem Solving, Sense of Humour/Wit, Imagination, and a basic grasp of Quantum Physics. I don’t expect anybody to have it all, it's fine to excel at some things and not others, it's what makes us unique, but any truly Intelligent person will have a good average.

Picture the graphic equalizer on your stereo. When you have the music sounding just right, some bars will be up, some will be down, and some will be hovering around the middle. My Intelligence Equalizer (I.E.) works much the same way, except in this case the music sounds better when you have more bars near the top. I can rate any individual’s Intelligence using this simple system, according to my own likes and dislikes of course. 3 out of 5 is not bad, 4 out of 5 is impressive, and 5 out of 5 is a little intimidating. Conversely, 2’s out of 5 are a waste of time, 1’s are the living dead, and 0’s are the peanut allergy of the Intelligence spectrum. They don’t have a chance.

Some of you may wonder at my leaving out Fact Retention, Book Smarts, or University Degree, but I did so for good reason. They all fall under the same category, and do not denote Intelligence. All these prove is that you have a Good Memory. That does not factor on the Intelligence Equalizer. I usually can’t remember what I had for breakfast (usually because it’s nothing), but I can cross a street without somebody having to pull me back out of traffic on every corner, something a certain University Graduate I know is guilty of. If you're relying solely on a Good Memory to get you through life, without any real I.E. worthy statistics, you might as well have a peanut allergy.

The following is a rough example of what the Intelligence Equalizer might look like, and I keyed in my own statistics to show you what’s possible.