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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Djeta Thernadier" data-source="post: 1215795" data-attributes="member: 12043">There is a HUGE part of me that wants to say , yeah, we're smarter. But I guess it depends on your definition of "smart" or your definition of "creative". I've known some people with enormously high IQs that can barely dress themselves. I've known some people who could not pass 5th grade math as adults (myself included) but who could write an epic, captivating story or speak fluently in 6 languages. I've known some gamers who were incredibly intelligent but so socially inept and snobbish that no one really wanted to be around them. I've known gamers who were the sweetest people alive. I've known people who were downright idiots.     While I agree that there is a frightening amount of "dumbing down" , I can't say that everyone who games is exempt from it. Nor can I say everyone who doesn't game is not intelligent. In fact, I know some brilliant minds who actually watch moronic shows like Who Wants  to Marry my Caricature of Herself Gold-digger Bimbo Aunt (or whatever the latest one is called) who , aside from their strange fixation with reality tv, or what I consider to be ridiculously bad pop music are successful, fun, and smart people.     Me? I have an above average IQ (which to me means nothing other than under the right circumstances, I'm a good test taker). I have no interest in current "pop" culture such as reality tv. I listen to various kinds of music. I like watching history documentaries. I have a lot of useless trivia floating around in my head. I think outside the box (as those business people like to call it). I read a lot of non fiction and classics. I have a vivid imagination.       Does that make me smarter than the guy who fixes your car? Not really. I am terrible at math. My spelling is atrocious. There are plenty of topics I'm just not interested in and know nothing about. I am not very social.    Someone mentioned in an earlier post that gamers are likely to be interested in more intellectual pastimes. I agree. But being interested in intellectual pastimes doesn't really make you smarter.     3 specific non gamers come to my mind. One is a good friend of mine who is currently reading the MM & MM2 because she writes fantasy. She has never really played D&D or any other RPG. She has a great imagination, she is one of the most brilliant women I know. The next is a guy at work who dresses like the cover of GQ every day (we don't quite understand it since no one here dresses that way). He is about as far from D&D as it comes, but, between the way he dresses and the way he knows finances and such,  he's a brilliant businessman and I'll be shocked if he isn't the VP of the company in a year. The next is my younger brother who is , IMHO, the smartest, most funny human being alive. He's clever and witty. He has no interest in D&D or RPGS whatsoever.     These 3 folks, as well as the mechanic who just replaced MojoGM's radiator are all smart non-gamers. Is the mechanic smarter than me because he knows an engine inside and out? No. Am I smarter than him because I can tell you more than you'd ever want to know about Ancient Egypt? No. There are so many different fields of interest that people have that it is impossible to really judge if one person is smarter than another. Gamers may just seem smarter to us because we can relate to them...</blockquote>

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