How not to CV
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Nononono... she meant:
- Mensies
- Blood Donor
- Texas Hold'Em (a department store brand of high-capacity tampons)
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@HardwareGeek said:
Filed under: Depending on what I ate yesterday.
Meth?Does that cause flatulence? I wouldn't know. I was thinking more along the lines of chili and beans.
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How hard is it to join MENSA?
They use an IQ test that hasn't been re-normalized since like 1950, so even the dumbest moron scores a 105.
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How hard is it to join MENSA?
I would never join an organization who's standards are so low that they'd accept me.
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Ah, yes. I guess I had forgotten the rest of the post — the parts I didn't reply to.
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Well, it's hard to say which parts you're replying to if you quote all of them.
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:thats_the_joke.gif:
Killing a barely funny joke by explaining it:
Which one of the three things I couldn't put on my CV was left as an exercise for the reader. The three things were that I don't do something illegal, although a minority of the population disagree with the relevant laws, that I don't do something illegal, with nearly universal agreement that it is wrong, and that I don't do something that is, at worst, somewhat offensive.
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Which one of the three things I couldn't put on my CV was left as an exercise for the reader.
And I deliberately chose the answer you didn't have in mind.
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...for a :WTF: TF2 "clan" and / or meet to be organised...
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They use an IQ test that hasn't been re-normalized since like 1950, so even the dumbest moron scores a 105.
That is... a smart move? Smart like your grandparents smart.
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I probably suck now, anymore when/if I play TF2 it's just to pubstomp and have people admire my pretty unusuals.
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How hard is it to join MENSA? I've seen a lot of idiots claiming to be members.
They claim your score in their tests must match the top 2% of the population. But these tests really don't say much about someone.
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Eh, I'm probably automatically DQ'd due to the dyscalculia
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I deliberately chose the answer you didn't have in mind.
Ah, of course. It was after midnight when we had that conversation, and my cognition my not have been at its sharpest.
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I don't know what DQ or dyscalculia means, I guess the D and dysc parts are related to discourse
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http://puu.sh/mf4kS/9ea0a86b96.jpg
And I'm still shit.
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How many "fuck you niggers" do you think is in 3523 hours of DOTA2? I'm guessing at least 8,000.
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How hard is it to join MENSA? I've seen a lot of idiots claiming to be members.
Top 2% on a valid IQ test. Whether your definition of "idiot" is valid is a different question. Putting it on a resume or CV is a debatable strategy, because it inspires a lot of ill will among people who wouldn't be able to get in.
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Top 2% on a valid IQ test.
Can't be in top 1% though; they're smart enough to not bother.
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because it inspires a lot of ill will among people who wouldn't be able to get in.
It looks stupid to a lot of people that can get in too. Several people with high IQ doesn't achieve shit in life. They are in no way comparable with TV stock genius characters like Sherlock Holmes.
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@chozang said:
because it inspires a lot of ill will among people who wouldn't be able to get in.
It looks stupid to a lot of people that can get in too. Several people with high IQ doesn't achieve shit in life. They are in no way comparable with TV stock genius characters like Sherlock Holmes.
I think this illustrates my point. "Genius" in the IQ sense, not the informal sense, means an IQ of at least 160. Entrance to Mensa requires at least 140.
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I have anedoctal evidence of losers on the 160 rangeForget that, with all these different scales on these tests I'm not sure. But the point is still valid, if they were valid there wouldn't be losers at 140 too.
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I have anedoctal evidence of losers on the 160 range
I'm the biggest loser I know and am (or at least once was) a certified genius.
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I have anedoctal evidence of losers on the 160 range
How a person defines "loser" is quite individual. From what I've seen, the heavy posters on WTDWTF tend to have a lot of worldly ambition, and so would tend to define "loser" in regards to that. IQ has little or nothing to do with how ambitious a person is. Think of IQ as being equivalent to hardware specs on a computer. If you're buying a used computer at least partially because of the software and data it has on it, then the hardware specs may be less important to you.
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I always wanted to be a mad scientist genius like dr Brown from back to the future. I think I got the mad part figured.
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At my wife's school a few years back, they had a student teacher (someone going through teacher's college, doing their placement), who was a gifted special snowflake. He grew up a snowflake, spent his life being told he was a snowflake, and would gladly inform anyone who asked (or didn't ask) about his snowflake status.
Maybe he was smart, maybe he wasn't. No one knew, because he couldn't actually get anything DONE. He spent all his time thinking about things, and planning "creative" ways of doing lessons.
Representative conversation went something like this:
Can you please just get these lesson plans done?
I need to do these in the best way possible.
No, you need to get them done.
Look, you just don't understand. I can get these done RIGHT. If you were to throw a bunch of change on the floor, I could think about it, and tell you the best and most efficient way of picking up all the coins.
And in the time it takes you to do that, I can just pick them all up in any order, and go buy a coffee with them. Get. The. Lessonplans. Done.
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I'm slowly going mad. Does that count?
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Better turn into a scientist first, so you get the whole package
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This. Teachers telling a kid he is a special snowflake mess with someone's mind.
Then you get out of school and has to face reality, and accept you're just another loser.
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I always wanted to be a mad scientist genius like dr Brown from back to the future.
There are a few people like that around, and have been accused (falsely I believe!) of being such a person myself. What we're doing is all perfectly sensible stuff, but when we get together and compare notes it really does sound as if we're distorting the fabric of reality just by standing there.
Now if you accused me of being a mad software engineer, I'd be much happier about that.
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These dont exist. Mad science in movies is like magic, where iron man build his super armor out of trash, and doc brown create a time machine with no hint of ever doing something boring.
I would be miserable writing science papers, but the magic mad scientists do in movies is awesome.
Like the sparks on this comic at http://www.girlgeniusonline.com
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@Lorne_Kates said:
At my wife's school a few years back, they had a student teacher (someone going through teacher's college, doing their placement), who was a gifted special snowflake. He grew up a snowflake, spent his life being told he was a snowflake, and would gladly inform anyone who asked (or didn't ask) about his snowflake status.
Maybe he was smart, maybe he wasn't. No one knew, because he couldn't actually get anything DONE. He spent all his time thinking about things, and planning "creative" ways of doing lessons.
Representative conversation went something like this:
Can you please just get these lesson plans done?
I need to do these in the best way possible.
No, you need to get them done.
Look, you just don't understand. I can get these done RIGHT. If you were to throw a bunch of change on the floor, I could think about it, and tell you the best and most efficient way of picking up all the coins.
And in the time it takes you to do that, I can just pick them all up in any order, and go buy a coffee with them. Get. The. Lessonplans. Done.Sounds like most programmers. Including the ones on TDWTF stoning the villians of the articles.
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this comic at http://www.girlgeniusonline.com
Thanks for reminding me; that's another one of my Chrome tabs that's gone missing.
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I'm trying to remember the name of the kid who had a super high IQ, had like 4 university degrees at the age of 14, and never accomplished anything in life except he wrote an incredibly dull book about train passes.
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that's another one of my Chrome tabs that's gone missing.
You know bookmarks don't randomly disappear.
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Aha, found it. It was a book about streetcar transfers:
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I'm trying to remember the name of the kid who had a super high IQ, had like 4 university degrees at the age of 14, and never accomplished anything in life except he wrote an incredibly dull book about train passes.
And that's, apparently, how someone like you would define "loser". It's not how I would define it.
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I'm trying to remember the name of the kid who had a super high IQ, had like 4 university degrees at the age of 14, and never accomplished anything in life except he wrote an incredibly dull book about train passes.
Doogie Howser, Trainspotter
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High IQ without effort doesn't accomplish anything great, and these guys don't get used to make a mental effort because the many of the mental tasks required to pass school are easier for them. When there is a real challenge, it's oh no that looks like work.
@boomzilla must be a genius by my logic
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I don't know what DQ or dyscalculia means, I guess the D and dysc parts are related to discourse
Dyscalculia is to basic arithmetics what dyslexia is to reading.
In that light, "DQ'd" probably stands for "disqualified".The really funny thing is that dyscalculia or dyslexia has zilch to do with someone's actual intelligence and, iirc, several famous scientists, inventors and thinkers suffered from one or the other.
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dyscalculia or dyslexia has zilch to do with someone's actual intelligence
But a lot to do with performance on tests.
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And that's, apparently, how someone like you would define "loser". It's not how I would define it.
Did you read the article?
The kid/guy never realy achieved anything of note in academia, and led a sad unfullfilled personal life as well.
It's not clear whether that was the fault of his parents, the society or just the side-effects of being a genius. But he DID squander his life, which is a pretty good definition of a loser.
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But a lot to do with performance on tests.
Sad truth, yes.
Some institutions that perform test-based assessment atleast have learned to adapt to this kind of thing, but most still don't. Even institutions such as universities generally only provide a token time-extension on exams, e.g. half an hour on a 2hr exam, which in reality does very little good.
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##Tip 5:
Good: Include a URL to your personal technical blog.
Bad: Turns out you're a crappy writer and your English sucks.
Filed under: Please no links
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Perfectly understandable EFL. Could have been worse, could have been Google Translate.
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I agree with @loose. If this isn't a native speaker, and isn't someone who is supposed to be publicly communicating in English (a la @apapadimopololous' job opening), then I don't have a problem with that level of English fluency.
It's better than the English of several people on my current team, and our stuff is pretty much 100% English, no translations at all, ever (aside from some conversations they have among themselves).
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I agree with @loose. If this isn't a native speaker, and isn't someone who is supposed to be publicly communicating in English (a la @apapadimopololous' job opening), then I don't have a problem with that level of English fluency.
It's better than the English of several people on my current team, and our stuff is pretty much 100% English, no translations at all, ever (aside from some conversations they have among themselves).
That's why I recommended him for interview. It's not perfect, but it's decent enough, and certainly better than the other guys, who had nothing.