Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
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Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
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#3Their entire high IQ sample comes from Mensa. So this should be restated something like "Inclination to join Mensa correlates with mental and physical disorder"
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#4I've met plenty of incredibly intelligent people in my life, and very few mentioned Mensa. Those who did had a yearning for being recognized as smart or exceptional. Perhaps using Mensa membership to draw inferences about smart people in general isn't statistically applicable. It could be that people who want to be recognized as smart have those mental issues, which other smart people don't.
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Do you have a citation for that?
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#7Their entire high IQ sample comes from Mensa. So this should be restated something like "Inclination to join Mensa correlates with mental and physical disorder"
That was acknowledged in the article.
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This is not at all "well known". Well, at least I don't know that. I haven't read the study yet, but it's based on a survey on Mensa members, so probably only representative of Mensa members.
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#9Their entire high IQ sample comes from Mensa. So this should be restated something like "Inclination to join Mensa correlates with mental and physical disorder"
With my very limited experience with Mensa (1 month), I can anecdotally confirm that a lot of members do have a lot of problems. At least the group I spend time with there were mental disorders, workless (for decades) etc.
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