Obfuscate your intelligence? Being a reddit mod sounds like it's part of the plan, then.

As far as I can tell, most people out there have expectations about high IQ people which are straight out of Hollywood films and wholly unrealistic, so best just leave then with whatever de facto impression of brightness they have about you than mention a number and trigger the "Mental Superman" expectations.

Also going around parading your IQ falls straight into the rule "the more a person brags about some great personal quality, the less strong it is" - if you're really that bright, brave, strong, beautiful, confident and so on, there is no need to mention it since it's generally obvious to others.

Eh, intelligence is fluid and the whole concept of a single IQ score is broken. Someone with a high IQ can be real-world dumb and someone bad at school math can become a genious engineer. And both can be equally good or bad at politics. It's all just skills. What matters is mental flexibility (how well you halves are connected) and a healthy image of self and others.

As long as you try to keep a flexible viewpoint and to experience new things now and then, you're doing more for your skull muscle than most.

Edit: ok, training your visual-conceptual imaginative power seems to be beneficial overall.

Fuck you man

When people tell me they like people with brown eyes (as someone with brown eyes) I have always presumed they are lying but just want to flatter me. It's a stupid thing on my end I'm sure, but my brain still does it

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I think it means table.

Mesa is a flat hill.

Mensa describes itself as a "High IQ Society". Essentially, anyone who scores well on an IQ test can join, and they have plaques, membership cards, and such they give out. As far as I know, the whole point of Mensa is to say you're smart enough to be in Mensa.

mensa actually means dumb in spanish!

IQ testing, arguably. Mensa is a social club that wants nerds to fuck nerds and make nerd babies

Or computational intelligence isn't the same thing as skepticism

And over-identifying woth it is something arrogant shit heads who are easy to con do.

Unlike me. I'm better than that.

IQ is absolute nonsense that tells you literally nothing about intelligence or anything of the like.

Mensa is for people who grew up in gifted programs being told that they will achieve greatness just because of the one test they scored hight on, and then they amounted to nothing, so they need a place where they can tell each other that they are unsuccessful only because they are so much smarter than everyone else around them.

High IQ people who manage to do something with their life usually have more to be proud of than an IQ test they took decades ago.

It was in an article about the real life incidents that influenced Terry Pratchett in the discworld series. So the con itself probably took place in the '80s or '90s, so quite a while ago. I can't really remember if the article itself went into any details but I ended up looking into it myself because I thought it was funny that people in Mensa had been conned.

I think it was some sort of timeshare scheme. The guy managed to sell timeshares in a property he didn't in fact own, not a very sophisticated con really. The utter geniuses didn't demand evidence that he actually owned the property before handing over cash.

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Mensa is for people smart enough to qualify, but dumb enough to get scammed.

there's a yearly membership fee

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMKqyaXtHI

I was curious too. I heard that online test didn't mean shit, so I did an "official" Mensa Test and well, trust me, you don't want to join.

following is a summary of a real conversation that I witnessed:

A parent sought advice, their child would fake being sick to avoid school within the first 2 weeks of the first school year. After some conversation, the parent expresses 2 opinions, 1. that they think their child gets bullied and 2. That the child couldn't express themself well enough to communicate what the issue is. So they just assumed that their child gets bullied, because if my child would tell me that their classmates are mean, I would call that express themself quite well for that age. Then in the conversation, they talk about how they thought their child how to write and read. So they are wondering why their child doesn't want to go to school after their child was forced to sit in a chair for hours, being taught the alphabet for hours that the child already knew. I wonder 🤔 can someone here tell us why the child doesn't want to sit in a chair for hours, writing down the same letter again and again as practice for something that they are already able to do? Does someone know?

They really couldn't figure that one out.

In the process of diagnosing ADHS (dyslexia, other) disabilities, a IQ test is used to establish a baseline of what other people with a similar result can and cannot do and this is compared to what you can and cannot do.

IQ tests do have uses.

Yeah, no one "flashes a Mensa card" unless they are a jerk.

One time I made fun of people who do cross fit and someone at the table said "I do CrossFit." Then I said, "It's almost as annoying as people who flex over their AMEX card." And another guy pulled out his AMEX card.

I regret not bringing up a Mensa Card.

Thank you, that makes perfect sense. It's easy to fall from the outside into the trap of judging it by the "smarter than you club" label, and forgetting that probably isn't the point for most members, and the club part is the important one.

Honestly, that sounds like a lot of fun.

As someone who doesn't need to guess:

It exists as a social club founded in eugenicist thought.