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I always tell people this who want "only high IQ" people to run society. "Oh, you want the people at Mensa to run your society?"
by Der_Einzige 7y ago
I always tell people this who want "only high IQ" people to run society.
"Oh, you want the people at Mensa to run your society?"
- opportune 7y agoWell to be fair, those are the subset of high IQ people who have the time/desire to join a club about having a high IQ. Kind of an adverse selection bias
- barry-cotter 7y agoThe overwhelming majority of the high IQ are not Mensa members. They are academics, doctors, lawyers, successful businesspeople, the kinds of people for whom it is more common in their friends group to have a Master’s degree than to be a high school dropout.
- perl4ever 7y agoSome people consider a person with a Master's degree to be a dropout. (yes, I know, not necessarily...)
- barry-cotter 7y agoThose people are called academics. The kinds of Master’s degrees that are rent seeking credentialism, MBAs, MSWs, M.Ed.s are far more common than consolation prizes for those who didn’t get their Ph.D.
- perl4ever 7y agoPerhaps, but the context I heard it in was self-deprecating from someone working in industry, relative to engineers with PhDs.