POLL: Do you think ET members' median IQ is higher or lower than it was 5 years ago?

Do you think ET members' median IQ is higher or lower than it was 5 years ago?

  • Higher

    Votes: 128 156.1%

  • Lower

    Votes: 77 93.9%
  • Total voters
    82
Everything in the past seems to always have been better....Better burgers, cars, life, etc etc etc....hence the saying...

"Ahh, the good ole' days"
 
I like to remember back in the nineties when I could average 200 bucks a day with a 2k account.

Now I'm scared to send my money to a broker.

Things were alot better then.
 
As the matter of fact I have just took an IQ test (what a coincidence) at the MENSA association of Canada. I won't post the number, but it is higher than I had 5 years ago. Go figure :D
 
Quote from Z.O.G.:

This would be a better poll question:

Do you think Thunderdog's IQ is higher or lower than it was 5 years ago?

:D
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I have actually always liked Thunderdog. I think he is an intelligent guy (or a girl) :)
 
Quote from Tight Face:

What kind of poll is this?

I think the issue with this particular forum is the (lack of) quality of posts, this one included. What ET needs is a displayed reputation score for each user. Users that provide useful commentary will be voted up by their peers, and users that don't add value can be voted down in reputation.

Number of posts and date registered is not a measure of quality or respect, to me.
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idiots don't recognize they are idiots and think that other idiots are great.
more useful are posts which say that the prior post is useful or on target. even that is not foolproof.
 
Quote from Thunderdog:

Stated differently, is the discourse generally more intelligent or more stupid than it was 5 years ago?
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I don't see much change. What I do see is discourse from people with less experience. One of the symptoms of that is the endless ideological finger pointing, which at some point will surely overload ET's "Ignore" system.
 
Thanks for the input, everyone. Now, of course, I did not mean to suggest that specific members had either lost of found a few IQ points. Rather, and I hope obviously, I was referring to the aggregate membership profile as it stands today, as compared to what it was five years ago. The people who participated in the poll thus far seem to agree overwhelmingly on direction.
 
It seems that the tables have turned overnight. Gee, I wonder how that happened. No doubt, threads like this one won the day:

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=157740

Not to mention this little bit of high-end political commentary:

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=157769&perpage=6&pagenumber=1

I refer to these trading-unrelated threads expressly to illustrate the general mental quality and caliber of ET's current membership, which seems to be all the rage. Now imagine this kind of raw brain power in the trading arena...
 
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