Maybe Mensa specifically selects for a combination of high IQ and low RQ, dunno.
I’m curious what the actual cutoff for Mensa is.
Googling, I get that the cutoff for getting into Mensa is 98th percentile in IQ, which means in the US this means you’re in the top 6.5 million people in terms of IQ. This doesn’t seem to me to be a particularly high cutoff. I’d imagine most Math PhDs form a far more selective group, given that I expect they’re all in that set and also there’s probably only order-of-magnitude 10k Math PhDs, and also they have been selected more on conscientiousness and competence (insofar as Mensa has no work required other than the test, whereas mathematicians have way more intellectual hoops to jump through).
(I don’t know what exactly this implies, mostly just noticing things aloud here.)
I’m curious what the actual cutoff for Mensa is.
Googling, I get that the cutoff for getting into Mensa is 98th percentile in IQ, which means in the US this means you’re in the top 6.5 million people in terms of IQ. This doesn’t seem to me to be a particularly high cutoff. I’d imagine most Math PhDs form a far more selective group, given that I expect they’re all in that set and also there’s probably only order-of-magnitude 10k Math PhDs, and also they have been selected more on conscientiousness and competence (insofar as Mensa has no work required other than the test, whereas mathematicians have way more intellectual hoops to jump through).
(I don’t know what exactly this implies, mostly just noticing things aloud here.)