[barry-cotter]

If you can’t hack calculus you will never be an Engineering professor, likewise close critical reading and an English professor. That puts a floor somewhere between 115 and 120 IQ on becoming a professor at a decent community college no matter how hard you’re willing to work.

I guarantee you MENSA members have higher incomes and educational attainment than non members. I’m equally sure that non-members who are eligible for membership but wouldn’t bother do better because they have better social skills which are helpful for anything.

[geezerjay]

> If you can’t hack calculus you will never be an Engineering professor, likewise close critical reading and an English professor.

You don't need to score high marks in IQ tests to pass calculus, and there are plenty of fields of research in engineering where a good grasp of calculus is fundamental. Thus, quite obviously you can become an engineering professor eventhough you suck at calculus.

> I guarantee you MENSA members have higher incomes and educational attainment than non members.

Feel free to provide any reference to back your baseless assertion.

[barry-cotter]

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Correlation-of-IQ-scores...

Graph showing 110 is about the minimum, not for understanding calculus well enough to teach it, but for any job as a teacher.

Source article

https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1998generali...

The General Intelligence Factor

82% of American Mensa members have a Bachelor’s or higher. Given that that’s double the rate among the general populace I’m just going to presume they make more money without botering to look it up.

https://www.us.mensa.org/learn/about/demographics/

[geezerjay]

Your comparison is at best skewed. By definition the general populace has on average an IQ of 100. In the US, over 60% of the population has at least some college. The percentage of MENSA members is small. How do MENSA members fare agains the general population with at least some college wrt income?

The fact that this info is not in plain sight nor is even advertised is a clear indicator that the correlation isn't that favourable. In fact, some sources [1] state that the top MENSA eaeners (top 10%) earn over $57k, which is surprisingly low and a fraction of what the average software developer earns (above $100k).

[1] https://www.paysa.com/salaries/american-mensa--member