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> most of the members of the 95%ile that have joined MENSA aren't massively successful, any more than anyone on the middle of the bell curve. This may be a sel
by atq2119 5y ago
> most of the members of the 95%ile that have joined MENSA aren't massively successful, any more than anyone on the middle of the bell curve.
This may be a selection effect. Perhaps the members of the 95%ile who are successful don't have the bandwidth left to join MENSA and see no value in doing so.
As a personal anecdote from ~15 years ago, which was the last time I affiliated with anybody who talked openly about being in MENSA, their activities there frankly sounded a bit like a self-therapy group which turned me off from even attempting to join.
- CRConrad 5y ago> This may be a selection effect. Perhaps the members of the 95%ile who are successful don't have the bandwidth left to join MENSA and see no value in doing so. That doesn't matter for the purposes of this discussion: It still shows that there's room for a lot of non-over-achievement in those top five IQ percentiles.
- timeslip1523 5y agoI don't think anyone ever thought that every 95th percentile IQ person is an intellectual overachiever. Question is how many, if any, 5th percentile IQ high achievers there are.