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Because people tend to become very suspicious when whoever says they are smart. Whether it is true or not, people cannot stand that(unrightfully).
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More than likely, the suspicion arises because there is no way of verifying statements made from an ambiguous source such as a poster on the Internet. As such, people use the only information the medium provides in being able to discern fact from fiction. In this case, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary are really the only defining characteristics one is able to use in order to facilitate their judgment.
That is the biggest reason that threads such as this usually succumb to eventual flaming of the people posting within the thread. People often fail to realize that the poster may have a different native language, or even more simply, the poster does not express well in writing the true intelligence he or she possesses.
Then of course you have the different mediums for testing intelligence. As brought up previously by a poster, Einstein more than likely would have had an intelligence score in the 18-20 range. However, it was also stated that a person with this score would have (most likely) received all A’s in school curriculums. This is not necessarily the case as even in Einstein’s case he failed mathematics repeatedly. Between SAT’s, ACT’s, ASVAB, and the multitude of other intelligence tests, you could probably get somewhere close to a measurable intelligence score, but only if you took the time to take every test and devised a way to find the mean between scores.
Anyways, enough babbling on my part, here is what I would estimate my scores would look like.
Str-12 (I swim daily and enjoy a pretty active lifestyle.)
Dex-8 (I have decent balance, bet getting me to bend is like forcing a brick wall.)
Con-9 (Sometimes I get sick, sometimes I don’t.)
Int-16 (Between a lot of school, including PhD studies, and multiple high scores on aptitude tests I feel this is correct.)
Wis-14 (Partially due to age and life experience. After all, even in AD&D this goes up with age.)
Cha-10 (I’m an average person, nothing special here.)