There is something bizarre about “high-IQ” as an identity core like with Mensa. Like a trade union of capitalists or a commune of libertarians. Or that South Park joke about the anti-semitic sect of Judaism. Shouldn’t you be winning Nobels, rather than performing identity?
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Not worth testing every idle shitposting hypothesis

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This is why professors have grad students
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The test is simple: just go to a Mensa gathering or three. Direct observation is a bit undervalued as data acquisition method, but rather effective.
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Now you’re just talking crazy talk.
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One data point: "Lewis Terman . . . set up a study in 1921 following 1,470 Californians, who excelled in the newly available IQ tests . . .None ended up as the great thinkers of their age that Terman expected they would." ++ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jul/25/no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child-einstein-iq …
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++ "But he did miss two future Nobel prize winners – Luis Alvarez and William Shockley, both physicists – whom he dismissed from the study as their test scores were not high enough." I had found this cite now, but I had read reading about it in a book. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jul/25/no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child-einstein-iq …
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