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> Mensans are below average achievers for their intelligence level, and this has a lot to do with their other traits. Meh. The study under critique may well be
by rendall 4y ago
> Mensans are below average achievers for their intelligence level, and this has a lot to do with their other traits.
Meh. The study under critique may well be flawed, but "everybody knows Mensans are losers" isn't really a convincing argument against
- lta 4y ago> Now, low achievement for one's intelligence can be explained by only a few things: bad work ethic, physical disability, and mental illness. These often go together (genetic fitness factor). Sounds quite simplistic and very hand-wavey.. The sampling bias appears quite real, and is interesting to study, but I don't feel like the topic was treated seriously. The studies mentioned seems to be just an alibi to trash talk various groups of people.
- tinglymintyfrsh 4y agoA qualitatively better hypothesis would be "Everybody knows Mensans are insecure". I never met any Mensans or Prometheusians at Stanford that I knew of or cared to ask about, and this included IITians with MD + CS PhD's. The ones I ran into outside of academia were heavily leaning on the neuroticism side of Big 5. This may not be a completely fair assessment as a generalization, but it seems like an approximation of a fair amount.