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HeroOfHyrule
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27 Aug 2021, 3:17 pm

I don't really get the appeal. Even if I had a high IQ (I don't really know my total score), most people there still probably wouldn't have a similar IQ profile to me. When I join groups I usually join them because I have a trait or activity I do that allows me to relate with other people, but I don't see how you can relate with other people just over a overall high IQ score. My friend got his IQ tested when he was assessed for ADHD and we related over the individual things that we had similar scores in, but not over the total score.



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27 Aug 2021, 4:28 pm

HeroOfHyrule wrote:
I don't really get the appeal. Even if I had a high IQ (I don't really know my total score), most people there still probably wouldn't have a similar IQ profile to me. When I join groups I usually join them because I have a trait or activity I do that allows me to relate with other people, but I don't see how you can relate with other people just over a overall high IQ score. My friend got his IQ tested when he was assessed for ADHD and we related over the individual things that we had similar scores in, but not over the total score.


That's very true re relating over an overall high IQ score. It's why so many high IQ societies fail. As mentioned earlier numerous special interest groups have been set up to try and improve things.

An old but interesting article.

https://prometheussociety.org/wp/articl ... outsiders/


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28 Aug 2021, 2:10 am

all my life i've been frustrated by smart people not wanting to interact with me.



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28 Aug 2021, 3:33 am

Double Retired wrote:
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I'm not particularly social though :)
Neither am I. Usually I sit quietly in the fringes--sometimes I find an interesting conversation. And Mensans like to eat.

Nonetheless, I met my bride in Mensa. And made some friends who drove hundreds of miles (or hundreds of kilometers) to attend our wedding.

That is wonderful! <3 Thank you for sharing your experience with us!


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28 Aug 2021, 3:37 am

auntblabby wrote:
all my life i've been frustrated by smart people not wanting to interact with me.


I'm also frustrated by the society's view of intelligence. Maybe I'm alone in this, but one's ability to excel at standardized tests just doesn't feel like a qualifier to me. Some of the most brilliant people I know have failed standardized tests.


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28 Aug 2021, 3:40 am

Flown wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
all my life i've been frustrated by smart people not wanting to interact with me.


I'm also frustrated by the society's view of intelligence. Maybe I'm alone in this, but one's ability to excel at standardized tests just doesn't feel like a qualifier to me. Some of the most brilliant people I know have failed standardized tests.

the brilliant people consistently think outside the box, they see a target nobody else can imagine. the rest are intelligent drones at best.



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28 Aug 2021, 4:35 am

I have enough difficulty trying to live with the fact I'm useless at most things, and worthless. Yet some are more than willing to disparage something I'm not a major klutz at .


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30 Sep 2021, 3:57 pm

firemonkey wrote:
HeroOfHyrule wrote:
I don't really get the appeal. Even if I had a high IQ (I don't really know my total score), most people there still probably wouldn't have a similar IQ profile to me. When I join groups I usually join them because I have a trait or activity I do that allows me to relate with other people, but I don't see how you can relate with other people just over a overall high IQ score. My friend got his IQ tested when he was assessed for ADHD and we related over the individual things that we had similar scores in, but not over the total score.


That's very true re relating over an overall high IQ score. It's why so many high IQ societies fail. As mentioned earlier numerous special interest groups have been set up to try and improve things.

An old but interesting article.

https://prometheussociety.org/wp/articl ... outsiders/

love that article


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30 Sep 2021, 5:24 pm

^^^roughly 2 millennia ago, Aristotle said much the same thing, “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”