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    People tend to compare themselves to others these days. The comparison has no limits; they not only compare their houses, their cars, their families, but also their intelligence. Sometimes they question their own analogies and wonder why do they have to compare and contrast? The truth is that a vast majority of humans from all cultures tend to compare themselves. By comparing one's social intelligence and cognitive intelligence based on academic achievement, professionals can find a distinction between social popularity, a measure of acceptance, and perceived popularity, a measure of social dominance (Meijs, Cillessen, Scholte, Segers and Spijkerman, 2010). The distinction between sociometric popularity and perceived popularity lay in a form of measurement generated by a test of perceived intelligence. The experimental study included a total of 512 participants, 56% girls and 44% boys aged 14 to 15 years. Although there are some limitations to this study, for example the possibility of not being able to determine whether sociometric popularity and whether it is influenced by academic achievement, or vice versa. The intention of the research, which was to compare students of different education levels, proves that social comparison is common among today's generation. This current experimental article focuses on social comparison theory based on an intelligence test. Today's social comparison takes place between different moral cultural backgrounds and even between different sexes. Comparing moral norms and social conventions in cross-cultural comparison, Mordecai Nisan, 1987, theorized that when comparing secular urban Jews, secular kibbutz Jews, and traditional...... middle of paper ...... gender and self: Variations and impact of social comparison processes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(6), 1118-1134.Meijs, N., Cillessen, AHN, Scholte, RHJ, Segers, E. and Spijkerman, R. (2010). Social intelligence and academic achievement as predictors of adolescent popularity. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39(1), 62-72.Nisan, M. (1987). Moral norms and social conventions: A cross-cultural comparison. Developmental Psychology, 23(5), 719-725.Poeschl, G. (2001). Social strategies of comparison and differentiation in social representations of intelligence. Swiss Journal of Psychology/Schweizerische Zeitschrift Für Psychologie/Revue Suisse De Psychologie, 60(1), 15-26. Rossman, BB and Gollob, HF (1975). Comparison of social judgments of creativity and intelligence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 31(2), 271-281.