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| ataradov:
I tried to take mensa test a couple times. Both times I felt like it was a huge waste of my time and gave up after 5 minutes. I guess my IQ is low and I don't deserve to pay them money forever for a certificate :). Any time IQ is used for anything other than goofing off, I just ignore the conversation. You can't seriously try to define intelligence by one number. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: ataradov on August 23, 2022, 05:12:50 am ---Horowitz got a Ph.D in physics from Harvard. Why would he need to take an EE class? --- End quote --- While a PhD in physics will ensure a high level of knowledge in physics and a very sound scientific background, that doesn't mean you'd be a good EE. That sure means the guy was not Mr. Random with no education and 100% self-made, but that doesn't say a whole lot about his engineering abilities. --- Quote from: ataradov on August 23, 2022, 05:12:50 am ---None of those people are geniuses, they were just good at what they were doing. There are a ton of people like this. --- End quote --- Uh yeah. I try not to fall into the trap of those big words, like "genius". They don't mean much and tend to imply there is something magical about someone's abilities, while most of the time it's just due to prolonged hard work. |
| pcprogrammer:
There are multiple views on what is intelligence. Some say there are different types of intelligence, like musical, artistic, linguistic, scientific and so on. It all depends on how a test is assembled and tested in its own rights. You have to select a large enough pool of people with diverse enough intelligence and tweak the outcome of all the individual tests to match the wanted bell curve. For me the ability to solve visual or other puzzles based on a single example and with increasing difficulty, as a means to measure some sort of intelligence. Never looked into mensa, but had heard of it. Only recently it came to the table that a new friend of ours took a test many many years ago and is a member. He is not dumb but believes in a lot of conspiracies which makes me doubt his abilities. |
| ataradov:
Mensa is an obvious scam. The real test of intelligence is the fact of membership. If you are a member, then you are dumb enough to pay them money for a certificate. Their PR people will scramble and tell you that it is a "club" with paid membership. I guess, you can call it that. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 23, 2022, 07:50:00 pm ---Never looked into mensa, but had heard of it. Only recently it came to the table that a new friend of ours took a test many many years ago and is a member. He is not dumb but believes in a lot of conspiracies which makes me doubt his abilities. --- End quote --- From what I've seen, there doesn't seem to be a lot of correlation between intelligence and what sort of stuff a person believes in. There seems to be a portion of the brain that is dedicated to religion and other similar beliefs that appear to utilize a similar mechanism, that is separate from the other parts. I have known a number of people who I would consider to be highly intelligent who never the less hold what I see as some very strange and irrational beliefs. |
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