How fast do you process data? Would you say you think faster than most NTs of your intelligence or would you say you think slower? How does your processing speed compare with your IQ?
I think faster, much faster. Of course, when one is doing so in a thousand directions at once, jumping from topic to topic, most of which are of interest only to me, the net outcome doesn't look very "fast".
I think that pretty much sums up the way I think 
Academically I think much faster than the NTs I've came into contact with - socially? No. Can you please define what it is that you mean by the poll question?
Basically, I have the impression that Aspies tend to think a lot faster than NTs but also a lot more chaotic. The speed may be the result of training, as we lack many of the social instincts NTs have and we need to match those instincts by analysis (which requires a lot more brainpower). The chaos is probably caused by that same lack of social instinct : we don't filter away many things NTs automatically filter away, leaving open a lot more thinking patterns.
With this poll, I wanted to verify how other Aspies experience their own thought processing. The question was how fast you (according to either tests or in your own experience) think in comparison with your intelligence. The latter is relevant, since more intelligent people tend to think faster than less intelligent people.
So I was thinking, what, BUNNY!
Sorry, I meant to hit the preview post button. That is me, above, I get distracted so easily. I am "NT" myself, supposedly, but I am always thinking about a lot of different things at once. I always put it to the fact that I am a Gemini!
lol gemini's are cool dont beat yourself up over this one
My husband and I have a pretty good banter about it. I start talking halfway in the middle of my thought as I was so distracted I started the sentence in my head first. He looks like he is paying attention, I get finished with the whole story, and he looks at me and says, what, I am sorry, the TV was on...
LOL!
Totally shallow here
Somehow, I doubt that.
Actually, to be honest, I prefer to keep most of my personal thinking light. I work so hard all day on these super complicated matters, all I want when I get home is "Top Chef" and ice cream, seeing my baby (daughter) and my baby (husband) and my two evil cats.
I think slow thinkers also tend to be deep thinkers.
Maybe... however I wouldn't say that fast thinkers are necessarilly shallow thinkers. One can think both fast and deep, you know...
My thought speed runs the gamut from not-at-all to all-at-once. Unfortunately it doesn't so much run it as take a really big leap from one end to the other, skipping most of the gamut in between. What the heck is a gamut anyway?
Anyway, this leads to annoyance when I'm not thinking clearly and try to do a math problem linearly instead of by leaps and bounds; it takes much longer than it ought to.
Or, if by thought you mean internal monologue, mine sometimes runs almost paralyzingly fast. Unfortunately it is easily broken up; for example I was going to say something different here but got distracted by how cool the word paralyzingly looks and completely forgot what it was.
An exception is French (and I assume languages I don't speak in general) it always takes me quite a bit longer than others in my class to get something translated properly, though I do it just as accurately if not more.
I laughed out loud the first time I saw Bella's signature complete. Also, I looked up gamut and I'm still not sure what it is. Something to do with music or colour or something. I always visualised it as some kind of obstacle course for some reason.
Ah, fast processing speed is the ultimate Aspie gift, but let's not try and imply it's a superior way to be, eh? Poor academic thinkers--college dropouts, high school flunkees, and the like--have the same exact worth as you Illusion, and everyone else in this poll who would say they are "fast."
I actually messed up at college/university myself. If I hadn't, I would have been a civil engineer rather than an IT consultant. Again, I'm not implying that I'm superior to anyone else. I'm just trying to figure out how I fit into the whole Aspie scene.
Is it possible someone could be in the 100th percentile for processing speed but still not get more than 130 (just gifted) on an IQ test??
I am in the 100th percentile for processing speed and performance IQ, but only around the 91st or 93rd (I don't remember) percentile for verbal IQ. That's 126 in points.
I tend to think processing speed doesn't have as much to do with intelligence as people might think. For instance, someone might have really fast processing speed but use it for small talk and another might have slow processing speed but use it to think about more insightful things and interesting topics. Which isn't to say it couldn't be the other way around as well.
I think a fast processing speed is important for Aspies, because we think very chaotic. Such a chaotic thinking pattern can lead to very long "waiting times", unless it is compensated by a fast processing speed... and these "waiting times" can be very annoying in daily life.
Translating theory into practice is where the problem lies.
I think that's a common problem for all of us. Knowing how to do something in theory is one thing. Doing it in practice is something completely different, though....
Is it possible someone could be in the 100th percentile for processing speed but still not get more than 130 (just gifted) on an IQ test??
I am in the 100th percentile for processing speed and performance IQ, but only around the 91st or 93rd (I don't remember) percentile for verbal IQ. That's 126 in points.
Well, considering that a percentile score measures how much of the population you are better than, that means you're cleverer than every single person on the planet. Including yourself.
So did you mean 99th?