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fieldcny | 6 months ago

Why the hell do you people know your IQ? That test is a joke, there’s zero rigor to it. The reason it’s meaningless is exactly that, it’s meaningless and you wasted your time.

Why one would continue to know or talk about the number is a pretty strong indicator of the previous statement.

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strken|6 months ago

You're using words like "zero" and "meaningless" in a haphazard way that's obviously wrong if taken literally: there's a non-zero amount of rigour in IQ research, and we know that it correlates (very loosely) with everything from income to marriage rate so it's clearly not meaningless either.

What actual fact are you trying to state, here?

Spooky23|6 months ago

The specifics of an IQ test aren't super meaningful by itself (that is, a 150 vs a 142 or 157 is not necessarily meaningful), but evaluations that correlate to the IQ correlate to better performance.

Because of perceived illegal biases, these evaluations are no longer used in most cases, so we tend to use undergraduate education as a proxy. Places that are exempt from these considerations continue to make successful use of it.

nxobject|6 months ago

> Places that are exempt from these considerations continue to make successful use of it.

How so? Solving more progressive matrices?

jmull|6 months ago

> correlate to better performance.

...on IQ tests.

naanmon|6 months ago

> we tend to use undergraduate education as a proxy

Neither an IQ test nor your grades as an undergraduate correlate to performance in some other setting at some other time. Life is a crapshoot. Plenty of people in Mensa are struggling and so are those that were at the top of class.

alluro2|6 months ago

For me it was just a coincidence of MENSA advertising their events in my high school and being pushed by a couple of friends to go through testing and join together.

weatherlite|6 months ago

I guess if you're an outlier you sometimes know, for example the really brilliant kids are often times found out early in childhood and tested. Is it always good for them ? Probably not, but that's a different discussion.

flir|6 months ago

You've never spent a couple of bucks on a "try your strength" machine?