How does your intelligence compare with your SO's?

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  • Captain_Tightpants
    Captain_Tightpants Posts: 2,215 Member
    This is not fair, because I think I'm pretty fair-middling on the old IQ stakes, but my wife is a freak. She solves Sherlock mysteries before Sherlock does. She has weird genius modes of thinking so far outside the box that you can't even see the box from where she's standing. She runs circles around me.
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  • StaceyJ2008
    StaceyJ2008 Posts: 411 Member
    He is extremely book smart but lacks all common sense. Since I am somewhat book smart and have common sense as well, I say I am smarter.
  • likearadiowave
    likearadiowave Posts: 445 Member
    No SO here. I must be a genius.
  • scs143
    scs143 Posts: 2,190 Member
    Shhhh, don't tell him, but he is smarter than me.

    I just win all the arguments because I argue better. It's what I am paid to do!
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
    I'm more book smart, she's more street smart.
    I learn faster, she tries harder.
    I work IT, she works HR.
    I'm tech savvy, she has trouble with setting clocks.
    I'm an introvert, she's an extrovert.

    Basically, we're two sides to one coin. She completes me.
    This is me and my fiance.

    Except he's in finance and I am in tech. Other than that, I'm pretty much exactly like her and he like you. lol
  • sunnyside1213
    sunnyside1213 Posts: 1,205 Member
    I was married to a genius, but looking back he destroyed his very prominent public service career with a mid life crisis. First came the sports car, then the boat, then the much younger woman who worked for him. After several "business trips" together, his bossed fired him. Later I dated a man whose cousin was the Ethics Director for the large county I lived in. She had him blackballed in the several counties and all the cities in those counties for the way he treated me. (I call it the divorce from Hell) I guess it's just Karma. Who is a genius now?
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    This is not fair, because I think I'm pretty fair-middling on the old IQ stakes, but my wife is a freak. She solves Sherlock mysteries before Sherlock does. She has weird genius modes of thinking so far outside the box that you can't even see the box from where she's standing. She runs circles around me.

    My husband does that to me. They would be dangerous in the same room! And impossible to watch TV with.
  • OkieinMinny
    OkieinMinny Posts: 834 Member
    we each have our strengths and weaknesses

    Math - he's freakishly smart and I cant add 2+2 (thats just for dramatic impact BTW)
    Spelling -- I make him write the grocery list so I get a good laugh -- dude cant spell Spaghetti to save his life
    Common sense - I win that one but he will disagree

    and we both rock in the useless information dept - his strong suit is Music and knowing within a half a note the song and who sings it - Im good at pop culture nonsense! - our friends wont play trivia games with us on the same team!
  • drkuhl2017
    drkuhl2017 Posts: 181 Member
    It depends on the subject... my fiance is much better at math and science, while I am betting at english, history, and behavioral sciences.
  • sherrirb
    sherrirb Posts: 1,649 Member
    I'm more book smart, she's more street smart.
    I learn faster, she tries harder.
    I work IT, she works HR.
    I'm tech savvy, she has trouble with setting clocks.
    I'm an introvert, she's an extrovert.

    Basically, we're two sides to one coin. She completes me.

    So awesome to hear a man talk about his woman like this!!
  • tidesong
    tidesong Posts: 451 Member
    We are both pretty close to the other's intelligence level, which is quite high according to testing. That's been the case with most of the people I've dated. The ones that were not as smart as me...well, those relationships didn't last very long.
  • josavage
    josavage Posts: 472 Member
    Our high school and college grades were pretty similar but he is definitely smarter than I am. He is an engineer and he is very technical. I don't think I could even pass the math and science classes he took and aced. Now he is getting his MBA and so far he has all As. No way could I get all As in that program.
  • dinosnopro
    dinosnopro Posts: 2,177 Member
    My wife is the brain, I'm the brawn....
  • n0ob
    n0ob Posts: 2,390 Member
    my wife is pretty strong in everything but logic.
  • dsjohndrow
    dsjohndrow Posts: 1,820 Member
    I have never been concerned with who is smarter - never even gave it a thought. My wife is the best thing that ever happened to me; we are a team. I don't think that she really cares what my IQ or educational level is. I don't care what her's is either. We talk about everything from politics to Trigonometry. If she needs help with the dishes or wants to talk about our little one, I am on it!

    ... but I can tell you who runs faster!
  • FitBeto
    FitBeto Posts: 2,121 Member
    Not as good as this
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  • alias1001
    alias1001 Posts: 634 Member
    We compliment each other. I'm a nerd and an academic, but also pretty naive and impractical. He's also smart academically if it holds his attention, but I have more "patience" for that stuff.

    He's much more practical and can read people like a book.
  • capnrus789
    capnrus789 Posts: 2,736 Member
    I'm smarter, by a lot. Then she had a baby and a friggin' genius now. The "baby stupids" never went away.
  • AllonsYtotheTardis
    AllonsYtotheTardis Posts: 16,947 Member
    my hubby is bloody brilliant - he picked me.
  • n2thenight24
    n2thenight24 Posts: 1,651 Member
    My husband always says that if my brains and his drive were combined into one person they would be unstoppable!! So we balance each other out :)
  • skinnywithin
    skinnywithin Posts: 1,392 Member
    common sense I would say we are very close

    Academically..I would say He might have me on that one by a LOOOONG shot ! He is super smart :)

    Street smart---Hands down I win ...LOL

    However where one lacks the other picks up so we mesh in perfect harmony !
  • lik_11
    lik_11 Posts: 433 Member
    Where one lacks, the other makes up. He has his strengths as do I. But looking back at how we scored on standardized tests and school work... I WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bigsmile:



    ^^^ this! ^^^^^

    He knows history- I understand science.

    My man has much better long-term retention than I do, though.
  • RyanDanielle5101
    RyanDanielle5101 Posts: 533
    I'm smart but he is smarter:) Which is totally okay with me, I spent ten years with someone that was like a child who needed his shoes tied:noway:
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    I'm more book smart, she's more street smart.
    I learn faster, she tries harder.
    I work IT, she works HR.
    I'm tech savvy, she has trouble with setting clocks.
    I'm an introvert, she's an extrovert.

    Basically, we're two sides to one coin. She completes me.


    Holy crap - I think I just met my doppleganger. This is exactly like me and my wife. Except I don't exactly work in IT - rather EE, even though my main focus ends up being (to my dismay) dealing with computers.
  • lizziebeth1028
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
    My SO is smarter academically and scientifically and probably in the technological arena as well. But I'm wiser than him in people smarts lol:bigsmile:
  • ncahill77
    ncahill77 Posts: 501 Member
    We both dumb as hell.
  • iAMsmiling
    iAMsmiling Posts: 2,394 Member
    My estimation of my wife's intelligence has risen steadily over the years. In her field, she's incredibly knowledgeable. Her weakness is a tendency to fail to close the loop logically and many of her world views are contradictory.

    I'm exactly smart enough to know NOT to get in a discussion like this with her.
  • vkruithof
    vkruithof Posts: 227 Member
    I'm smarter than he gives me credit for. I'm certain in many tings I'm smarter than him, and others he's got me.
  • sherrirb
    sherrirb Posts: 1,649 Member
    My husband and I, we have a pretty good balance. He cant spell, I struggle with anything beyond basic math skills.

    We both know a little about a LOT of different things.

    However he tends to be a bit obsessive/compulsive when he gets interested in something and reads all the available material and researches it until he knows as much as he can about it. Then he tells me everything he's discovered, but this doesn't bother me because it is usually something we are both interested in doing together anyways.

    He's the driver, I'm the navigator.

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