dominate spouse during game night if you're intellectually superior?

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Honestly you both sound terribly immature.

This is why parents and teachers shouldn't let kids win or teach winning is everything.

We play a variety of games some we're equally matched others favor one of our strengths. We don't play to dominate or destroy each other or to win. We play for fun and to spend time together. We both also enjoy teaching strategies so in the event we're playing another couple we can best them as a team

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Anonymous wrote:How many of you are much smarter than your spouse? What do you do during game night if you're in a situation where you are a league above your spouse in intellect? Let them win? Tonight, we were playing a game we've been playing for the past two months. My wife has 'won' every game we've played over that time (prob 13 times we've played). Little does she know I've let her win every game the entire time. Tonight, I was tired of it and then played for real. She was shocked she lost 4 times in a row once I really started trying this time. To put this into context, I have a graduate degree in engineering from a top school while my wife studied polysci. It's a game that requires stats and probabilities as well as discrete math principles (obviously stuff she's never even heard of). Once I started using concepts I learned in school like the pigeonhole principle, ideas from graph theory, and basic stats/prob I started to wipe the floor with her in the game. She ended up getting quite angry at losing the entire night and stormed off to bed without saying goodnight.

If you are far more intellectually superior than your spouse, what do you during game night? Purposefully let them win because you know you can pretty much beat them 100% of the time? Stick to games only that are 'fun' and that are built in random change so that very little strategy is involved? Or show no mercy and mop the floor with them every time until they cry uncle and refuse to play the anymore? I already ruined Scrabble with my spouse, because I beat her over 36 times in a row (played for real the entire time).

What makes you think that the fact you studied math and statistics makes you intellectually superior?

Because I'm going to go out on a minor limb and conclude that it takes a little bit more intellect to get through doctorate level engineering mathematics, quantum electrodynamics, etc. and then get grilled for hours by top professors in the world on those subjects so that you can pass your oral exam. That's a bit harder compared to just doing an undergrad political science degree. And also based on doing original research that has to be published.

No, it really doesn't mean that. It means you have different academic interests and skills, and that you had the opportunity to pursue a graduate degree, or that such certification was necessary for your career. It's a very privileged take to say it makes you intellectually superior.

NP - this. The ability to "get through" doctoral studies is as much about perseverance and tolerance for academic crap than it is about intellect. Moreover, you're assuming that certain disciplines are more rigorous than others, even though they often require different cognitive abilities. Solving equations doesn't make you smarter than someone who can write circles around you, to take one stereotype.

You also don't seem to understand that plenty of very, very smart people don't get PhDs for the sole reason that they don't want or need to. That has nothing to do with their brainpower. You can sneer at your wife all you want. Most of us on this thread are hoping she finds better than you.

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This is why I love Wordle...my wife has a larger vocabulary than I do but reducing the scope to five-letter words that I'd know is a great equalizer.

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Anonymous wrote:How many of you are much smarter than your spouse? What do you do during game night if you're in a situation where you are a league above your spouse in intellect? Let them win? Tonight, we were playing a game we've been playing for the past two months. My wife has 'won' every game we've played over that time (prob 13 times we've played). Little does she know I've let her win every game the entire time. Tonight, I was tired of it and then played for real. She was shocked she lost 4 times in a row once I really started trying this time. To put this into context, I have a graduate degree in engineering from a top school while my wife studied polysci. It's a game that requires stats and probabilities as well as discrete math principles (obviously stuff she's never even heard of). Once I started using concepts I learned in school like the pigeonhole principle, ideas from graph theory, and basic stats/prob I started to wipe the floor with her in the game. She ended up getting quite angry at losing the entire night and stormed off to bed without saying goodnight.

If you are far more intellectually superior than your spouse, what do you during game night? Purposefully let them win because you know you can pretty much beat them 100% of the time? Stick to games only that are 'fun' and that are built in random change so that very little strategy is involved? Or show no mercy and mop the floor with them every time until they cry uncle and refuse to play the anymore? I already ruined Scrabble with my spouse, because I beat her over 36 times in a row (played for real the entire time).

What makes you think that the fact you studied math and statistics makes you intellectually superior?

Because I'm going to go out on a minor limb and conclude that it takes a little bit more intellect to get through doctorate level engineering mathematics, quantum electrodynamics, etc. and then get grilled for hours by top professors in the world on those subjects so that you can pass your oral exam. That's a bit harder compared to just doing an undergrad political science degree. And also based on doing original research that has to be published.

No, it really doesn't mean that. It means you have different academic interests and skills, and that you had the opportunity to pursue a graduate degree, or that such certification was necessary for your career. It's a very privileged take to say it makes you intellectually superior.

NP - this. The ability to "get through" doctoral studies is as much about perseverance and tolerance for academic crap than it is about intellect. Moreover, you're assuming that certain disciplines are more rigorous than others, even though they often require different cognitive abilities. Solving equations doesn't make you smarter than someone who can write circles around you, to take one stereotype.

You also don't seem to understand that plenty of very, very smart people don't get PhDs for the sole reason that they don't want or need to. That has nothing to do with their brainpower. You can sneer at your wife all you want. Most of us on this thread are hoping she finds better than you.

This is just something people who couldn't hack it in rigorous engineering fields at the doctorate level say all the time.

Yeah, because I'm sure it doesn't take some baseline level of higher than average intelligence to complete a PhD in engineering at a top program.

Delusional. You can wish for ill will towards a person you've never met before simply because they beat their spouse badly at board games all the time. That says a lot more about your toxicity than anything about me. You are probably on the bordeline of being a psychopath.

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OP, what do you love -- or even just admire -- about your wife?

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Scrabble allegory for OP's marriage.

OP wins -6 to -16

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Anonymous wrote:How many of you are much smarter than your spouse? What do you do during game night if you're in a situation where you are a league above your spouse in intellect? Let them win? Tonight, we were playing a game we've been playing for the past two months. My wife has 'won' every game we've played over that time (prob 13 times we've played). Little does she know I've let her win every game the entire time. Tonight, I was tired of it and then played for real. She was shocked she lost 4 times in a row once I really started trying this time. To put this into context, I have a graduate degree in engineering from a top school while my wife studied polysci. It's a game that requires stats and probabilities as well as discrete math principles (obviously stuff she's never even heard of). Once I started using concepts I learned in school like the pigeonhole principle, ideas from graph theory, and basic stats/prob I started to wipe the floor with her in the game. She ended up getting quite angry at losing the entire night and stormed off to bed without saying goodnight.

If you are far more intellectually superior than your spouse, what do you during game night? Purposefully let them win because you know you can pretty much beat them 100% of the time? Stick to games only that are 'fun' and that are built in random change so that very little strategy is involved? Or show no mercy and mop the floor with them every time until they cry uncle and refuse to play the anymore? I already ruined Scrabble with my spouse, because I beat her over 36 times in a row (played for real the entire time).

What makes you think that the fact you studied math and statistics makes you intellectually superior?

Because I'm going to go out on a minor limb and conclude that it takes a little bit more intellect to get through doctorate level engineering mathematics, quantum electrodynamics, etc. and then get grilled for hours by top professors in the world on those subjects so that you can pass your oral exam. That's a bit harder compared to just doing an undergrad political science degree. And also based on doing original research that has to be published.

No, it really doesn't mean that. It means you have different academic interests and skills, and that you had the opportunity to pursue a graduate degree, or that such certification was necessary for your career. It's a very privileged take to say it makes you intellectually superior.

NP - this. The ability to "get through" doctoral studies is as much about perseverance and tolerance for academic crap than it is about intellect. Moreover, you're assuming that certain disciplines are more rigorous than others, even though they often require different cognitive abilities. Solving equations doesn't make you smarter than someone who can write circles around you, to take one stereotype.

You also don't seem to understand that plenty of very, very smart people don't get PhDs for the sole reason that they don't want or need to. That has nothing to do with their brainpower. You can sneer at your wife all you want. Most of us on this thread are hoping she finds better than you.

This is just something people who couldn't hack it in rigorous engineering fields at the doctorate level say all the time.

Yeah, because I'm sure it doesn't take some baseline level of higher than average intelligence to complete a PhD in engineering at a top program.

Delusional. You can wish for ill will towards a person you've never met before simply because they beat their spouse badly at board games all the time. That says a lot more about your toxicity than anything about me. You are probably on the bordeline of being a psychopath.

You're right. We couldn't hack an engineering degree. But you can't hack getting along with human beings, so go enjoy being smart with your toys.

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There are two kinds of people that play Scrabble: people who think it's a word game and people who think it's a math game. They are both right -- a game is what you make of it -- but they don't play well together.

I don't like people who play words they haven't ever used or read/heard in a sentence outside of Scrabble.

I'd go a li to be by my jo!

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Anonymous wrote:How many of you are much smarter than your spouse? What do you do during game night if you're in a situation where you are a league above your spouse in intellect? Let them win? Tonight, we were playing a game we've been playing for the past two months. My wife has 'won' every game we've played over that time (prob 13 times we've played). Little does she know I've let her win every game the entire time. Tonight, I was tired of it and then played for real. She was shocked she lost 4 times in a row once I really started trying this time. To put this into context, I have a graduate degree in engineering from a top school while my wife studied polysci. It's a game that requires stats and probabilities as well as discrete math principles (obviously stuff she's never even heard of). Once I started using concepts I learned in school like the pigeonhole principle, ideas from graph theory, and basic stats/prob I started to wipe the floor with her in the game. She ended up getting quite angry at losing the entire night and stormed off to bed without saying goodnight.

If you are far more intellectually superior than your spouse, what do you during game night? Purposefully let them win because you know you can pretty much beat them 100% of the time? Stick to games only that are 'fun' and that are built in random change so that very little strategy is involved? Or show no mercy and mop the floor with them every time until they cry uncle and refuse to play the anymore? I already ruined Scrabble with my spouse, because I beat her over 36 times in a row (played for real the entire time).

What makes you think that the fact you studied math and statistics makes you intellectually superior?

Because I'm going to go out on a minor limb and conclude that it takes a little bit more intellect to get through doctorate level engineering mathematics, quantum electrodynamics, etc. and then get grilled for hours by top professors in the world on those subjects so that you can pass your oral exam. That's a bit harder compared to just doing an undergrad political science degree. And also based on doing original research that has to be published.

No, it really doesn't mean that. It means you have different academic interests and skills, and that you had the opportunity to pursue a graduate degree, or that such certification was necessary for your career. It's a very privileged take to say it makes you intellectually superior.

NP - this. The ability to "get through" doctoral studies is as much about perseverance and tolerance for academic crap than it is about intellect. Moreover, you're assuming that certain disciplines are more rigorous than others, even though they often require different cognitive abilities. Solving equations doesn't make you smarter than someone who can write circles around you, to take one stereotype.

You also don't seem to understand that plenty of very, very smart people don't get PhDs for the sole reason that they don't want or need to. That has nothing to do with their brainpower. You can sneer at your wife all you want. Most of us on this thread are hoping she finds better than you.

This is just something people who couldn't hack it in rigorous engineering fields at the doctorate level say all the time.

Yeah, because I'm sure it doesn't take some baseline level of higher than average intelligence to complete a PhD in engineering at a top program.

Delusional. You can wish for ill will towards a person you've never met before simply because they beat their spouse badly at board games all the time. That says a lot more about your toxicity than anything about me. You are probably on the bordeline of being a psychopath.

Yes, those of us who won't fall at your feet worshipping your "intellectual superiority" all desperately wish we could be engineers like you. Who's the delusional psychopath?

Your inability to even consider that you might be wrong says volumes about who you are as a person - and none of it is good.

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Anonymous wrote:So do you love her, OP, or do you just love beating her, and the gloating that comes with that?

What do you love at all about her, if she is this pathetic thing?

He feels insecure so he needs to tear down others to feel better about himself.

He knows that deep down he’s a POS who doesn’t deserve her.

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Anonymous wrote:How many of you are much smarter than your spouse? What do you do during game night if you're in a situation where you are a league above your spouse in intellect? Let them win? Tonight, we were playing a game we've been playing for the past two months. My wife has 'won' every game we've played over that time (prob 13 times we've played). Little does she know I've let her win every game the entire time. Tonight, I was tired of it and then played for real. She was shocked she lost 4 times in a row once I really started trying this time. To put this into context, I have a graduate degree in engineering from a top school while my wife studied polysci. It's a game that requires stats and probabilities as well as discrete math principles (obviously stuff she's never even heard of). Once I started using concepts I learned in school like the pigeonhole principle, ideas from graph theory, and basic stats/prob I started to wipe the floor with her in the game. She ended up getting quite angry at losing the entire night and stormed off to bed without saying goodnight.

If you are far more intellectually superior than your spouse, what do you during game night? Purposefully let them win because you know you can pretty much beat them 100% of the time? Stick to games only that are 'fun' and that are built in random change so that very little strategy is involved? Or show no mercy and mop the floor with them every time until they cry uncle and refuse to play the anymore? I already ruined Scrabble with my spouse, because I beat her over 36 times in a row (played for real the entire time).

What makes you think that the fact you studied math and statistics makes you intellectually superior?

Because I'm going to go out on a minor limb and conclude that it takes a little bit more intellect to get through doctorate level engineering mathematics, quantum electrodynamics, etc. and then get grilled for hours by top professors in the world on those subjects so that you can pass your oral exam. That's a bit harder compared to just doing an undergrad political science degree. And also based on doing original research that has to be published.

No, it really doesn't mean that. It means you have different academic interests and skills, and that you had the opportunity to pursue a graduate degree, or that such certification was necessary for your career. It's a very privileged take to say it makes you intellectually superior.

NP - this. The ability to "get through" doctoral studies is as much about perseverance and tolerance for academic crap than it is about intellect. Moreover, you're assuming that certain disciplines are more rigorous than others, even though they often require different cognitive abilities. Solving equations doesn't make you smarter than someone who can write circles around you, to take one stereotype.

You also don't seem to understand that plenty of very, very smart people don't get PhDs for the sole reason that they don't want or need to. That has nothing to do with their brainpower. You can sneer at your wife all you want. Most of us on this thread are hoping she finds better than you.

This is just something people who couldn't hack it in rigorous engineering fields at the doctorate level say all the time.

Yeah, because I'm sure it doesn't take some baseline level of higher than average intelligence to complete a PhD in engineering at a top program.

Delusional. You can wish for ill will towards a person you've never met before simply because they beat their spouse badly at board games all the time. That says a lot more about your toxicity than anything about me. You are probably on the bordeline of being a psychopath.

Were you in the military?

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone assuming the gender of OP ?

Engineering is dominated by men. It’s a safe assumption.

I'm a woman with a grad degree in engineering. From MIT. OP is probably a man because most women do not act like such a$$holes.

I can’t imagine any woman ever writing a post this ridiculously clueless, and I have read some posts by very clueless women.

Well, I did. There you have it.

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Anonymous wrote:How many of you are much smarter than your spouse? What do you do during game night if you're in a situation where you are a league above your spouse in intellect? Let them win? Tonight, we were playing a game we've been playing for the past two months. My wife has 'won' every game we've played over that time (prob 13 times we've played). Little does she know I've let her win every game the entire time. Tonight, I was tired of it and then played for real. She was shocked she lost 4 times in a row once I really started trying this time. To put this into context, I have a graduate degree in engineering from a top school while my wife studied polysci. It's a game that requires stats and probabilities as well as discrete math principles (obviously stuff she's never even heard of). Once I started using concepts I learned in school like the pigeonhole principle, ideas from graph theory, and basic stats/prob I started to wipe the floor with her in the game. She ended up getting quite angry at losing the entire night and stormed off to bed without saying goodnight.

If you are far more intellectually superior than your spouse, what do you during game night? Purposefully let them win because you know you can pretty much beat them 100% of the time? Stick to games only that are 'fun' and that are built in random change so that very little strategy is involved? Or show no mercy and mop the floor with them every time until they cry uncle and refuse to play the anymore? I already ruined Scrabble with my spouse, because I beat her over 36 times in a row (played for real the entire time).

What makes you think that the fact you studied math and statistics makes you intellectually superior?

Because I'm going to go out on a minor limb and conclude that it takes a little bit more intellect to get through doctorate level engineering mathematics, quantum electrodynamics, etc. and then get grilled for hours by top professors in the world on those subjects so that you can pass your oral exam. That's a bit harder compared to just doing an undergrad political science degree. And also based on doing original research that has to be published.

No, it really doesn't mean that. It means you have different academic interests and skills, and that you had the opportunity to pursue a graduate degree, or that such certification was necessary for your career. It's a very privileged take to say it makes you intellectually superior.

NP - this. The ability to "get through" doctoral studies is as much about perseverance and tolerance for academic crap than it is about intellect. Moreover, you're assuming that certain disciplines are more rigorous than others, even though they often require different cognitive abilities. Solving equations doesn't make you smarter than someone who can write circles around you, to take one stereotype.

You also don't seem to understand that plenty of very, very smart people don't get PhDs for the sole reason that they don't want or need to. That has nothing to do with their brainpower. You can sneer at your wife all you want. Most of us on this thread are hoping she finds better than you.

This is just something people who couldn't hack it in rigorous engineering fields at the doctorate level say all the time.

Yeah, because I'm sure it doesn't take some baseline level of higher than average intelligence to complete a PhD in engineering at a top program.

Delusional. You can wish for ill will towards a person you've never met before simply because they beat their spouse badly at board games all the time. That says a lot more about your toxicity than anything about me. You are probably on the bordeline of being a psychopath.

Were you in the military?

Most people are too practical and learn more on the job to waste 4-7 years in a Phd program. It’s bad ROI every way you cut it.
So all that’s left is people who misguidedly think it’s something to brag about. It actually signals lack of EQ and common sense who want to stay out of the real world all their 20s and beyond.

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Anonymous wrote:A smart man would not have married a dumb wife.

This phony troll is not marriage material period.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly you both sound terribly immature.

This is why parents and teachers shouldn't let kids win or teach winning is everything.

We play a variety of games some we're equally matched others favor one of our strengths. We don't play to dominate or destroy each other or to win. We play for fun and to spend time together. We both also enjoy teaching strategies so in the event we're playing another couple we can best them as a team

This is such a weak mindset. How can you possibly get better at anything u less you're torn down, destroyed into ruination, and built back up again after purging weakness. This is how you get better at anything, whether it is a boardgame or life.

This is also why society is going to hell. Too many awards these days for participation, too many rewards for subpar work, and too many considerations for feels rather than unbiasly rewarding accuracy, consistency, and innovation. You think our competitors over in China give a crap about feels? They want to thoroughly destroy us. The only way to get better and compete is to be torn to shreds and get better by having someone obliterate you and expose your weaknesses. Scrabble is agnostic and objective. If you get destroyed consistently at the game, well that's on you to learn why, not on me to relent and play the game to kowtow to your weakness.