When I was 18, my high school girlfriend took me to the local Mensa chapter’s New Year’s party because her mother was a member and she was used to hanging out there.

It was a useful lesson that whatever IQ tests measure, it is completely devoid of value or interest to me.

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phainopepla2 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	jaggederest 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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

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guelo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What does having value or interest to you have to do with intelligence?

	▲	itishappy 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What does IQ have to do with intelligence? (Please forgive the flippant response. I believe it cuts to the core of what the parent was intending.)

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sfblah 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

To be fair, Mensa is a Venn diagram between IQ and being a douche.

	▲	shric 29 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I suspect my IQ isn’t quite high enough to join Mensa but I’ve always flirted with the idea of trying to join and getting in just to see what a group of Mensa people are like.
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