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by hoffrocket 2441 days ago
All this study says is that there's a correlation of Mensa membership to a higher likelihood of certain disorders. It does _NOT_ establish any causal links, or even that Mensa membership is representative of the much much larger population of people who can get a 98th percentile score on an IQ test. Perhaps disorders cause people to join Mensa? Who knows.
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Just because correlation doesn't imply causation doesn't mean you should negate it causation. You need correlation to exist to even have causation so correlation is evidence for causation.