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do you think people who win Nobels don't perform identity? i mean really i think high IQ societies are just for people who haven't figured out signaling yet

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Is Mensa the primary use of the brains in Mensa?

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I don't know, maybe? A good test would be to see if people in Mensa have like, interesting or groundbreaking jobs or blogs or something. But yeah - as soon as a group advertises itself as a cheap signal, people into cheap signals are the ones that will join.

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That's probably testable, but idk how to get that data. I never really thought of that as the option, though. I've generally felt that insecurity doesn't go away with higher social status.

12:58 AM · Apr 22, 2018

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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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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." ++ theguardian.com/education/2017