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by smugkot 1510 days ago
>Mensa and other high IQ societies consist of people who have enough time to dedicate to being in a high IQ society.

They also consist of people who (stupidly) attribute a lot more value to IQ than it deserves. I got a 135 on this test, I am not smarter than Richard Feynman.

I bet that IMO/IPhO medalists are a LOT smarter than Triple-9 people.

(Yes, I know that Feynman underwent an actual physical examination, and his score was probably lowered by his poor English skills, but my point still stands: smart people typically don't have extremely high IQs.)

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> his poor English skills

C'mon, Brooklyn is an accent not a disability!