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as someone who qualifies for mensa but like, i ain't paying a subscription fee to be in the smart people club, that sounds really dumb (and also IQ testing is sketchy at best to begin with)
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Haha I always thought that people running mensa are the real geniuses for basically selling self-esteem
Exactly! Mensa is essentially the filter for people who think they’re smart but actually aren’t.
People at the peak Dunning-Kruger point of intelligence - just above average intelligent enough to feel they're "above" most people but not enough to properly understand the full nature of intelligence and its limits.
Waat (screaming in a low iq)
Mensa is for people smart enough to qualify, but dumb enough to get scammed.
Get scammed? I pay the yearly couple of euros mainly for access to the discussion groups. Sometimes I scroll and notice the dumbest shit and every single time it's a post from a non-mensa group dirtying up my feed. There really is a noticable difference.
Ok, that's sensible
So what types of discussions do you get in places where us dumb dumbs aren't allowed?
Imagine stack overflow on steroids.
Well, yeah. But with a pleasant, welcoming tone. And very seldom about programming.
This place is similar due to how niche is it. You won’t see your dumb neighbour or loud relative here. The discussion topics are mostly the same as anywhere else, it’s just that you won’t get the type of comments that makes you sigh and scroll faster.
there's a yearly membership fee
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMKqyaXtHI
I took their online test out of curiosity and it said I was qualified to join. It was interesting to figure out the mechanism of it though.
From what I gathered, it seems what they’re really measuring is your capacity for pattern recognition and association or something along those lines.
Isn't this what most of IQ tests do? I sometimes take them because it's fun to solve the pattern tasks but I feel like it's nearly impossible to test the really interesting things like transfer and problem solving capabilities in a reliable way at least in this kind of way.
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.
IQ testing as many other things, has racist origins and is for all intents and purposes quite useless imo
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.
Yup, just like BMI. It's useful for things and the doctors are aware it isn't perfect but that's not what the general population thinks.
"BMI is useless if you have a lot of muscle weight" - Guy with a lot of fat weight
Literally. I've had this happen, and then he proceeded to claim that obesity as a concept was not real. 💀
"I'm not fat, I just have a lot of adipose tissue."
People are allergic to nuance.
dang, i wish they did that for my adhd diagnosis, because i kept looking normal on my tests and had to go on a manhunt to find a doctor who has adhd as well, so they could just vibe check me (and i did, but before that i spent a lot of money on futile tests)