If you guys claim to be the smartest board on the site, then why are the majority of you still piss poor?

>tfw to intelligent to be rich

>>tfw to intelligent to be rich

Nah, it's more like... destroying a nations intelligent population is a really effective warfare procedure.

A lot of the people here are interested in the sciences rather than employed by them. A lot of us come here to learn and discuss, even if some things are beyond discussing at the higher levels. The average expertise here seems like it's admittedly above the average, around 1 to 2 years of college.

Those who try to make serious discussion here will often have some pride or even elitism about the points that they make, and no one admits that they're wrong. It's a mark of immaturity and unprofessionalism. The IQ circlejerk threads are enough to let a professional know that this place is not to be taken seriously as a science discussion board. It's understood that anything close to actual progress in science and math will not be originally posted on Veeky Forums, if only to protect the patent rights of the discoverer.

The culture is elitist and pedantic, above the average bear when it comes to intelligence but, like much of the rest of Veeky Forums, lacking in wisdom. For Veeky Forums, that translates to a lack of experience. If you spend enough time here, you stop learning because every new concept is obviously things people are just Googling to get answers or politicking to make them up. An actual scientist could have himself a giggle at some of the things said here, and relevant news stories from a lot of different outlets do make their way here, but at the end of the day, Veeky Forums otherwise has little value to a professional scientist.

what are you saying? professional scientist don't google for answers?
not saying Veeky Forums isn't cancer, but even for the highly educated, they aren't doing things much differently other than dedicating much more time studying.

Veeky Forums is full of idiots from reddit and underaged pseuds.

>Veeky Forums
>smart
top kek, no board in Veeky Forums is "smart" as a whole
take Veeky Forums: 90% high schoolers and pre-freshmen / freshmen who are about to drop out already, and some ridiculous popsci weirdos who majored in some pseudo-STEM career and post about nonsense
there are like 8 regular posters on Veeky Forums who are pretty smart, and that's it, everyone else is clinically retarded

Who is this love glove

Veeky Forums routinly makes me laugh at how group think could devolve so far from the intended topic.

No, Veeky Forums has slightly less shitposting than a normal board, but the quality of posts overall are fucking trash.

Also
>philosophy
>smart
Ecks
Dee

I'm not a jew.

I mean, of course, real life is open book. It's just that Veeky Forums is a poor way to get your information when compared to other sources. It's inefficient, redundant, and generally less fun and productive than other fora in its discussions. I'd rather look up something I already know about and follow a Wikipedia trail, either through other Wikipedia articles or through the sources at the bottoms of the articles.

Veeky Forums isn't built to foster very good discussion of the facts. In fact, it's better known for its creative works, and Veeky Forums is not fundamentally a creative board. You can only discuss hard facts so much before you hit a wall and things fall apart, and that wall is fairly low since the people here tend to take separate paths after their first two years of college. One goes toward geology, another opts for statistics, still another goes toward mechanical engineering, and between those disciplines, there's only so much that all sides can discuss together. After that, you're just Googling your information about questions you could've Googled without someone on Veeky Forums trying to make you feel stupid for not knowing. It's a very toxic environment compared to, say, discussion with actual colleagues, professors, or coworkers in your field. It's not that Veeky Forums is worthless. It's that there are better ways to do what it does, and those better ways are right there on your nose once you've had some professional development.

You spelled /diy/ wrong.

Making money is trivial and therefore not worth pursuing.

All that said, I used to come here more often as an undergrad, and the people aren't as fun as I remember. Actual discussion is a majority of the posts now, and I haven't gotten an honest laugh here since this one tripfag from /g/ toured the threads and started trolling. One thing that Veeky Forums lacks, compared to the other boards, is personality. I'd come here more often if it had some.

/x/ is the smartest board. I'm not joking. Scientists have to work with reality were magic is not a thing, everything has rational explanation, so they go shit post on /x/ to get away from reality for a little while. Veeky Forums is just a bunch of college kids complaining about school where an actual scientists pops in a rare occasion.

So /x/ is the smartest. Veeky Forums is somewhere not far away and Veeky Forums is the most pretentious.

Veeky Forums
>smart

Kek.

If you want to talk with smart people, you need to use Reddit : /r/Science, sometimes /r/Iama.

This "shit" i wrote triggers Veeky Forums.
Sorry I had to say it. No hate, thanks !

Everyone knows Veeky Forums is the smartest.
Reading makes you smart.
And Veeky Forums is pretty well-read.