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I suspect my IQ isn’t quite high enough to join Mensa but I’ve always flirted with the idea of trying to join and getting in just to see what a group of Mensa p
by shric 1mo ago
I suspect my IQ isn’t quite high enough to join Mensa but I’ve always flirted with the idea of trying to join and getting in just to see what a group of Mensa people are like.
- scotty79 1mo agoWe are basically random. 2% of population by top IQ test result has pretty much very similar distribution in all aspects to 100% of the population. It's not a high bar to be fastest processing one among 50 people.
- scotty79 29d agoIf you calculate this properly, a Mensa member has about a cointoss chance to be the "smartest" among random group of 35 people (not 50). Given that they are probably rarely in groups of purely random people, if you are Mensa member and you are in a group of dozen people (for example in professional setting) you'd probably have a 50/50 chance of not being the one with the highest IQ there.
- sfblah 29d agoIQ is not randomly distributed in heterogeneous populations. Do a little research, and you'll see what I mean.
- tptacek 29d agoI did a little research, it's not clear what you mean.
- scotty79 29d agoWhat should I research? IQ follows normal distribution across entire population. I guess if you'd built your heterogenous population out of mental patients and university professors together you'd get bimodal distribution, but such heterogenous populations don't spontaneously pop up in your life very often.