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phainopepla2yesterday at 10:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

At the risk of sounding like one of those people at Mensa that annoyed you...

The people at Mensa aren't a valid sample of people who score high on IQ tests, because there is a such a strong selection effect for people with certain personality traits, such as wanting to join a club based on your IQ.


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jaggederestyesterday at 10:41 PM

Or, to put it as Groucho Marx did:

"Please accept my resignation, I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJHUres_2xU&t=228s

scotty79today at 3:32 AM

By looking at interactions of people in Mensa I feel like 2% of top IQ is actually too low bar to notice anything particular about "high" IQ people. We are still pretty random in our interests and performance.