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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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). [/quote]

What makes you think that the fact you studied math and statistics makes you intellectually superior? [/quote]

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.

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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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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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Were you in the military? [/quote]

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. [/quote]

I agree with this. I think my spouse would too. We both think that it has a lot more to do with stubbornness than innate intelligence. Unfortunately we didn't figure it out before spending all that time in our PhD programs. [/quote]

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