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by roel_v 2727 days ago
Mensa membership is actually quite interesting, and possibly relevant to this discussion. It's full if people who are 'smart' (i.e., did well on the mensa tests), yet don't do that well professionally to be around smart people all the time. It's full or primary school teachers and nurses and that sort of thing. Mensa is for people who feel out of place in their day to day lives, they're generally not well understood by their day to day environment. While (most) doctors and lawyers and engineers and academics are already around smart people all the time, and don't need any extra on top of it.

(All this imo, may be observation bias, ymmv, etc)