A charitable interpretation of Mensa membership would be something like: “Hey, I have a high IQ, and yet I am not successful, so apparently I am missing something. Maybe I can’t figure out what it is, and maybe you could help me, especially given that you see many people with a similar problem.”
And sometimes the problem is something that can’t be fixed, or at least not quickly, like maybe your EQ is zero, and you would need a decade of therapy, and you don’t even agree that this is the problem, so you would reject the therapy anyway. (Or a similar thing about rationality.)
And maybe sometimes the problem is something that could be fixed relatively easily, for example maybe your social circle is simply too stupid or too anti-intellectual, and you just need to start hanging out with different people and get some guidance… and maybe most smart people automatically assume that you are stupid because of your cultural differences and wrong signaling, and the IQ test could be an evidence that it is indeed worth spending their time on you.
Then again, if only the people who need some help join Mensa, it will become a “blind guiding the blind” club.
Reminded me of this comedian saying a similar thing:
A charitable interpretation of Mensa membership would be something like: “Hey, I have a high IQ, and yet I am not successful, so apparently I am missing something. Maybe I can’t figure out what it is, and maybe you could help me, especially given that you see many people with a similar problem.”
And sometimes the problem is something that can’t be fixed, or at least not quickly, like maybe your EQ is zero, and you would need a decade of therapy, and you don’t even agree that this is the problem, so you would reject the therapy anyway. (Or a similar thing about rationality.)
And maybe sometimes the problem is something that could be fixed relatively easily, for example maybe your social circle is simply too stupid or too anti-intellectual, and you just need to start hanging out with different people and get some guidance… and maybe most smart people automatically assume that you are stupid because of your cultural differences and wrong signaling, and the IQ test could be an evidence that it is indeed worth spending their time on you.
Then again, if only the people who need some help join Mensa, it will become a “blind guiding the blind” club.