Eh. MENSA requires upper 2% (which is ~2 standard deviations). Whether you label that ‘genius’ or ‘bright’ or something else doesn’t seem terribly important. 3.5 standard deviations is the 2.3 out of 10,000 level, which is about a hundred times more restrictive.
I’d call MENSA merely bright… You need something in between ‘normal’ and ‘genius’ and bright seems fine. Genius carries all the wrong connotations for something as common as MENSA-level; 2.3 out of 10k seems more reasonable.
Eh. MENSA requires upper 2% (which is ~2 standard deviations). Whether you label that ‘genius’ or ‘bright’ or something else doesn’t seem terribly important. 3.5 standard deviations is the 2.3 out of 10,000 level, which is about a hundred times more restrictive.
I’d call MENSA merely bright… You need something in between ‘normal’ and ‘genius’ and bright seems fine. Genius carries all the wrong connotations for something as common as MENSA-level; 2.3 out of 10k seems more reasonable.