2%. Yeah, that's 150 million NON-BLACK NON-HISPANIC people
there are other far more exclusive "proven IQ" groups.
All tend to collect enough autistic under-employed that they cause too many new high IQ members to flee
The good thing about mensa is that its at least a threshold people can use, even if its a little too open a club (so that some women can join)
Real IQ or those fake pattern recognition tests? The Mensa tests are almost entirely based on recognizing geometric patterns, which is a small component of IQ. Last time I looked there were no tests of logic, memory, knowledge, or abstract pattern recognition. They are purposefully weeding out intelligent people whose primary intelligence isn't solving meaningless puzzles.
You obviously don't understand what IQ is. Puzzle solving ability IS IQ. It was never supposed to encapsulate every function of the brain to give a "you're this smart" number.
It gained prominence because, of all the different tests that claimed to measure intelligence, it was uniquely able to make accurate predictions of success and was repeatable and stable. IQ proved itself through testing to be the most important measurable factor of intelligence.
You obviously think IQ is just a fancy word substitute for smart and smart is something everyone can define in thier own way to suit thier ego.
You obviously don't understand what IQ is. Puzzle solving ability IS IQ.
Found the puzzle retard. No, that's not what IQ is. I'd normally suggest you educate yourself, but for the thinking impaired that's not as interesting as fruitless brain teasers.
Other readers interested in IQ should check out the history of the Stanford-Binet IQ test, which has been in use for over 100 years. It has been the "gold standard" forever. Even the original form of the test included 30 categories. Those who cannot score as high as they believe they should on that test tend to focus on the category where they are able to perform well and insist the rest is "irrelevant." That's where we get the "puzzle dorks." We've all met those people who are really good at solving meaningless puzzles, but who display an astounding inability to navigate the real world. They're just savants. That's why they have to form emotional support groups such as Mensa.
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