> I totally buy that having IQ below, say, 95, is bad news for you in life in general. But is having IQ 130 guaranteed good news over someone who has 105 for ex

> I totally buy that having IQ below, say, 95, is bad news for you in life in general. But is having IQ 130 guaranteed good news over someone who has 105 for ex.? As others have said in the comments, there’s no guarantee, we are talking statistics here. The data of the several IQ studies that you can easily find online show correlations between IQ and other factors that people think of as measures of success. > You can find 140 IQ truck divers etc. And homeless, and everything in between. And the last time I checked, here were I live (catalonia) the data showed that about 70% of people with high IQ would not finish high school without repeating a full year. And yet, things like future income positively correlate with IQ. Success is a very personal concept, but for most people it shares some similarities, and there’s factors that always help, whatever your definition (like having income to cover your needs). My point is that if you try to fit a convex curve to the data, you’ll see that it’s not as good as a linear fit, meaning that there’s no specific place in the IQ scale where you’d be better off with a lower score, even if a lot of people with high IQ wish they were (which is understandable). As for your comment about Mensa (or any other high IQ association), the problem is a rather common one. In all kind of associations (school parents, political groups, etc..) the people most involved tend to be the ones that have less going on with the rest of their lives, that’s why they are so involved in the first place. It’s just way weirder with Mensa because of the meaning of the “entry requirements”.