You can’t infer a property of a population from a sample collected with a condition. The most likely interpretation of those results is: a person with high IQ doesn’t have much social costs CONDITIONAL on him/her having entered Mensa. And of course entering Mensa is not a cause
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It’s like saying that people in a basketball team defeat the notion that extreme high comes at the cost of coordination. Basketball team members are (passively or actively) selected from the general population conditional on having high both subpar height and coordination.
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Nevertheless, we need to stop studying high intelligence in biased mensa samples. This is a waste of research resources.
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High intelligence is likely high general intelligence. With enough experience & learning, greater intelligence means greater facility mastering complex challenges, be they with abstractions or people.
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It comes at a cost when we can't properly explain how we know what we know to people who don't possess such skills (and can't easily wrap their head around them).
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