Game Theory: Among Us, Your 900 IQ Means NOTHING!

all right tell me what happened here it all happened so fast one minute i was standing with pink and electrical just the two of us all alone i turned around to fix some wires and when i turned back around the body was sitting right there green what you see look i just saw red and pink go into electrical together and and that's it no one else came in or out so our possible list of killers is you red it wasn't me you've gotta believe me i didn't see what happened think i've heard enough green you can go wait for me at security it wasn't me i swear i didn't kill pink i didn't shh not so loud i know you didn't kill pink i know you're innocent red but i had to talk to you alone without green hearing why so i could do this hello internet welcome to game theory the show that aims to make you a big brained gamer and as any big brained gamer should know our new line of theory wear is available right now for the holidays well all of it except for this red vegan leather jacket that i built from the ground up stitch by stitch i've been looking for a way to produce jackets like this one since 2016 and so to finally see it made was so exciting this year but then to see you guys buy this thing like hotcakes see it sell out in less than 48 hours was incredible so if you are interested in getting your hands on one of these red vegan leather jackets we're restocking it via pre-order right now meaning that every theorist out there who wants this one-of-a-kind red jacket can get it but you're gonna have to make sure that you place your order asap to reserve yours today because we're placing that reorder real soon before the holidays links to it all are right below this video it would be a very high iq move for you to click speaking of big brain moves in the past year no game has become more famous for big brain plays than among us someone across youtube the iq escalation for among us has been unreal and of course no one can compare to disguise toes 2 back in august was pulling off 200 iq strats but has gradually leveled up his skills to the 5 000 plus range that my friends is what we call power creep something that toast as a hearthstone player should know a thing or two about also fun fact did you know that the name disguise toast is actually a reference to a line from a hearthstone card this guy's toast mourinho but for as much of a meme as high iq plays and among us have become does high iq actually matter in the game is iq really the thing that's going to help you win something that's all about social deduction and deception and if it's not then what do we need to win that my friends is our big brained question of the day and to untangle the knot we first need to understand what exactly iq is measuring in the first place iq is short for intelligence quotient and is designed to measure human intelligence no doubt right everyone knows that but do they understand that because iq isn't actually what a lot of people assume it is examples of questions that you might encounter on an iq test are things like this which number should come next in the following pattern 4 10 22 46 if you recognize that each number in the sequence is multiplied by 2 and then added to 2 congratulations a winner is you the answer is 94. here's another one book is to reading as fork is to the answer here is eating it's a basic analogy like the type you'd see on a standardized test like the sats you use a book to read you use a fork to eat now if questions like these strike you as incredibly basic almost the kind of thing that a grade schooler could do well it's kind of the point for example questions like what year was the declaration of independence signed or what city is the capital of poland don't really test how good you are thinking they're mostly measures of whether you memorized a fact well enough to regurgitate it it's pure trivia likewise during an iq test you're probably not going to get quizzed on the quadratic formula or the chemical composition of table salt iq's aim is to be a measure of human intelligence not necessarily human knowledge or experience the idea is that while people accumulate knowledge throughout their lifetime intelligence is innate problem solving it's believed to be something that you just have and something that remains relatively consistent throughout your life and research actually supports this iq researchers have found that people who are tested for iq when they're young tend to maintain similar scores as they get older and studying also doesn't seem to help all that much a 1995 study found that subjects who underwent rigorous test prep did score higher on iq tests but the improvement was relatively small between two and six points that's not a whole heck of a lot when you consider that iq is measured on a scale that goes up to around 200 and if you're wondering why i said it goes up to around 200 points it's because the scale is constantly getting recalibrated 100 is meant to be the baseline representing the average iq and 68.26 of people fall between 85 and 115 but what that score of 100 means has actually shifted over the years a study comparing children's test scores in 2008 to test scores in 1942 found that modern kids were scoring an average of 14 points higher than their old school counterparts if you're looking for an explanation as to why one explanation that researchers came up with was that during the 20th century people were powering their cars with leaded gasoline and it turns out that lead is go figure really toxic and causes permanent brain damage the us didn't ban the sale of leaded fuel until 1996 1996 man wow it got banned in the eu even later in 2000. we've also gotten better about banning things like leaded paint so it turns out that when people aren't breathing in neurotoxins they happen to score better on tests designed to measure brain function who would have guessed anyway to give a few reference points for what high iq actually means a score of 120 indicates that someone scored higher than 90 of people while an iq of 125 indicates that he scored higher than 95 percent of people 135 iq puts you in the top one percent 146 iq puts you at the top 0.1 and someone with 200 iq would be smarter than 99.99999999987 percent of humanity in fact as of right now it is literally impossible to score 250 iq on the test because it's a measure of how much smarter you are compared to other people to be precise for all the stat nerds out there it's based on how many standard deviations separate you are from the mean which means that there literally aren't enough people on planet earth to get you to a score that high so disguise toast actually had it right the first time 200 iq smart play but still within the realm of possibility and every video title after that has just been clickbait we're included in that category too to be honest true story we actually debated whether or not we wanted to keep it accurate to true iq scores but we decided not to and just play along with the memes meanwhile we all just need to tremble in fear considering that alakazam the pokemon apparently according to the pokedex has an iq of 5 000 so that's a little bit about iq but can having a higher iq actually make you better at video games yes or to be more precise better at certain kinds of video games in a series of studies researchers at university of york found that among both league of legends and dota 2 players the higher you go in matchmaking rank the higher the average iq of the player becomes the thought is that because league of legends and dota are at their core real-time strategy games involving lots of complex decisions in short time frames having a turbo powered brain really helps out on the other hand the same researchers looked at data from first-person shooter players and found different results there apparently when it comes to fps games the biggest predictor of good performance isn't iq it's actually age people who did best were younger players whose more nimble fingers and quicker reflexes put them at an advantage so how does among us fit into all this well the most important part of among us is the team meeting where the main skill being tested is social deduction how good you are at deceiving people as an imposter and how good you are at spotting lies as a crew member so do the high iq players really have the advantage when it comes to that part of the game as it turns out yeah research shows that a higher iq tends to come bundled with better theory of mind basically theory of mind is your ability to understand what other people are thinking you're able to predict or intuit the thoughts and reactions of other people which in turn lets you model your behavior based on how they're going to respond it's basically in a strategy game when you're thinking three moves ahead or those moments when you say ha i knew you would do that that's why i laid my trap there it's pretty critical to any game that involves trying to outsmart another player it's sort of putting yourself in the other player's shoes a sort of if i do x then knowing what i know about that person i can predict that they would most likely respond by doing y in a game of among us this could be as simple as realizing that pokemane was suspicious of toast the entire game which means that if i kill and report a body in a place near where toast is hanging out pokeman will most likely try to vote toast into the lava and in turn pokey could apply theory of mind in response to that realizing wait a minute if the imposter knows that i've been suspicious of toast the entire game they might try to frame him in the next kill so i should probably be a bit skeptical of anyone who reports a body near toast that kind of game of cat and mouse is all about understanding how other people think and using that to predict their behavior aka theory of mind so what does this all tell us well it seems that the high iq players might truly be the elite among us in among us except there's one other group that may be able to beat them the only thing stronger than being smart is being a wizard you're a wizard harry seriously let me introduce you to the strange science of truth wizards yes this is a real scientific thing and yes the academic name is truthwizard so on a previous episode of game theory all about the strategy of among us i mentioned that people on average are really bad at detecting lies in a test where people were asked to judge a series of statements as truth or lies they guessed correctly 54 of the time barely better than the 50 you'd expect from random chance so humans are bad at detecting lies in general further research on the subject found that a few people are absolute wizards when it comes to spotting lies quote from the study wizards of deception detection are rare individuals who achieve scores of 80 or higher most people's accuracy on these tests is about 50 as would be expected by chance alone of more than 15 000 people tested only 47 have been classified basically these people are natural born lie detectors now being a wizard comes with a few caveats these rare individuals have a harder time evaluating strangers they also tend to work better if they're able to use facial expressions because a lot of their abilities come with recognizing micro level changes to vocal and physical cues the better grasp these wizards have on a person's normal speech patterns the easier it is for them to tell when that person's speech is different from normal it might come in real handy if you find yourself sitting across the table from a possible liar but in a typical game of among us you're not gonna have any chance to read a person's facial expressions at best you have yourself the voice chat so am i saying that you either have to be super smart or a literal wizard to be good at among us of course not for instance if you want to do better at an iq test one of the most effective ways is to simply try harder yep in a study done on iq scores it found that when people were offered incentives like receiving money as a reward for higher scores it resulted in an average score increase of as much as 10 points better than when they heavily studied like we talked about earlier which means that the single best way to get good in an iq test is by you know playing with mr beast winners get ten thousand dollars if they beat me in a game of rock paper scissors but in all seriousness the biggest and most important factor is practice you could take the biggest brained genius in the world and put them in front of a computer and they're probably not going to do too hot at their first game of among us especially compared to someone who's had like even a dozen games under their belt consider a game like chess which seems like the ultimate thinking man's game you'd think that high iq players would have an advantage in chess and you'd be right but only to a certain point as it turns out raw intelligence is no match for experience research found that practice accounted for 34 of the variance in skill levels between chess players while difference in intelligence only accounted for five percent much like being born naturally tall doesn't automatically make you a good basketball player being born with naturally high intelligence doesn't automatically make you good at games like chess or among us you may start with an advantage with a higher iq but how you choose to apply it makes all the difference in the world as it turns out raw intelligence is no match for experience and all of this is what i plan on putting to the test on december 1st all of the 5 000 iq among us memes got me thinking that it would be fun to get a bunch of the smartest people i know both in life and in gaming together to see how well they do against each other in among us that's right my friends today's theory isn't just the theory anymore it's about to become a live experiment on december 1st as part of my million dollar challenge for saint 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Id: YTgvF-Yz8gs

Length: 15min 17sec (917 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 21 2020

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