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In before everyone trashes IQ for being racist and pointless.
And I'm not saying it isn't ethnocentric and a bit arbitrary. But walk around a Mensa meeting and you'll see things in common.
Mostly that everyone is really socially inept if not outright problematic.
But 90% liberal, yeah.
Mensa is not a good selector. First off it not that high of an IQ requirement, second, they have to want to join Mensa. Real brilliant folks have little interest.
Let's not pretend that the bright people skip MENSA to join the Federalist Society.
There's a reason Trump switched parties to run for President, and it wasn't because he wanted to target the best and brightest. He wanted rubes and he got them.
Isn't the requirement 130? That's decently high, no?
Definitely agree that you're selecting for people who want to show off and take a bit too much pride in their IQ score though if you're focusing only on MENSA members.
Yeah 130, which is 2 percentile I believe. Smartest one out of 50 people. That is not smart enough to be special, but just enough to be insufferable.
That's why I'm top of the bell curve, babbyyyyyy
IQ is racist? It think it's generally accepted that good culturally neutral IQ test don't exists and you can't use it to test differences between races. I think the only problem is that some racists don't understand this and still try.
Are you claiming that anyone who believes in IQ tests is racist, or that specific racist people are using IQ tests, or what?
I'm claiming that racist people look at differences in some standardized IQ tests between western countries and the rest of the world and claim those prove white people have higher IQs while the science understands that IQ tests can't be used to compare people from different cultures.
I'd be interested to know if the people decrying IQ tests in this thread could accurately describe one.