Will it impress people?
Should I mention my Mensa membership in my CV?
It is quite normal to meet
The point of Mensa is for smart kids in the sticks to form some kind of peer group of other smart kids. If you are in any half decent math department, you don't need Mensa.
Even in a half decent department one still likes to have lunch now and again.
The point of Mensa is for smart kids in the sticks to form some kind of peer group of other smart kids. If you are in any half decent math department, you don't need Mensa.
Sure, and it also seems obsolete when modern social media allow the same networking.
But there is a strain of countersignaling on IQ in general and Mensa in particular by many people in academia that is some linear combination of arrogant and disgusting. If you made it through selections much more stringent then a mere Mensa test, be happy, but shitting on people for whom it could rationally serve a useful social purpose is ugly.
But there is a strain of countersignaling on IQ in general and Mensa in particular by many people in academia that is some linear combination of arrogant and disgusting. If you made it through selections much more stringent then a mere Mensa test, be happy, but shitting on people for whom it could rationally serve a useful social purpose is ugly.
Why would it be disgusting? IQ might be useful for sociological research, but I don't see what purpose it serves in educating individual children.
The 'IQ correlates with everything' meme, to the extent that it captures some truth, implies the corollary that you don't really need a special test to figure out how smart someone is or what their needs might be. Just observe how they do on various cognitive tasks that they have to do in an educational setting anyway.
Why would it be disgusting?
The hypocrisy, for one thing. People whose entire life has been an exercise in being rewarded for high intelligence, going to great lengths and all sorts of implausible mental gymnastics to dismiss any suggestion that it can be usefully measured.
IQ might be useful for sociological research, but I don't see what purpose it serves in educating individual children.
The purposes it could and (in a sane society) would serve are outlawed in the US, with the result that people have to run costly and exhausting rat races to achieve much the same educational and job sorting.
lol, listen to this retard thinking people should be discriminated w.r.t. IQ.
If anyone in the private sector cared about IQ, they could ask you or they could make you do IQ tests as part of job interviews. there is no law against giving those kind of tests during hiring. the fact that very few do it is because nobody is so stupid to care.
Your screen is so tiny that we decided to disable the captcha and posting feature
Formatting guidelines: Commonmark with no images and html allowed. $ and $$ for LaTeX. Input previewed in last post of thread. For a link to be allowed it must include the http(s) tag and come from the list of allowed domains.