Dr.Evil

I'm pretty happy now myself. I haven't always been though I had deppresion between 8 and 21. My I.Q changes a lot depending on what tests I take but it is always over 120. We wouldn't fit well on the graph but lets wait for the results. I think a lot of rich, intelligent people are happy because they more often than not earned their money though hard work or a good Idea and they can spend their money in a way to enrich their lives. rich, ignorant people are quite often never satisfied or waste their money on things which won't make them feel good about theirselves.

It is a tough one, Intelligence is very hard to measure accurately. I suppose I need to measure problem solving, memory and spatial awareness as an absolute minimum. People may have other stenghs and weeknesses but as an average with a large enough sample it should work as an average. Wealth is very easy to quantify and for happiness a self assesment as a percent is going to have to do.

Partially true but a most intelligent people don't use their full potential and so feel unforfilled. I was thinking about using wealth in the equation and making a 3d scatter graph. This could then be used to look at the corrilations between money and happiness, happiness and intelligence and intelligence and money.

Quite interesting. Have you found a practical aplication for it yet? I like the way it nearly found rome, not coinsidence. Your program could be used to decide the best location to place a delivery service or mabey with a little modification you could use it to calculate the average line of a scatter gragh. I'm sure with a few more line of code you could get it to calculate a lot faster though.

Would any of you guys like to help write some questions for me? once I have about 20 - 25 I'll incoperate them in to an online test. Sorry I'm feeling too lazy to do the whole thing.

equi-manual... I like it. ambi-dextrus (hope I spelt that right) means double right or both right, the exact opposite of having 2 left feet. I've never seen such a bunch of sinister people in my life!

Thanks

You got there first! I know this isn't very scientific yet but the results are roughly whatI would expect. So far 62.5% of voters consider themselves above average intelligence. and 80% of those would consider themselves are of average or below average happiness. A real assesment test will be online within the week and I'll post a link. Also happiness is subjective aswell but I think I can trust most peoples self assesment for that.

I'd like to see a search members option

Mabey the girls are pretending to be guys so they don't get PMs from us geeky guys.

Well it's a reasonably sized sample.

Thanks. It looks like about 90% guys from the poll. But it could be up to 99%. The poll only shows the percent from voters. Girls are probably more likely to vote than boys because they are the minority and they want to be counted. Well I guess this proves that our superior Y genes make us beter at science!

Ok here goes. I am trying to find a corilation between high intelligence and depression. We have all heard the phrase "ignorance is bliss" and stupid people are often happy as a pig in sh*t . I have never added a poll to a thread before so I hope this works. I know this is will not prove anything at this stage but it will do untill I devise a decent test.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know the ratio of boys/girls on this site?

that's not right now is it?