Why waste all the time and effort on an IQ test?

There doesn't appear to be the slightest relationship
between being having a high IQ score and being
successful in life.

This is one of those things that can derail your life
needlessly.

In fact, even the relationship showing higher education
bringing greater wealth over a lifetime is nebulous, because
the people able to attend college have a stronger financial
standing anyway, so would be successful whether they actually
attended class or not.

Trust me, I was a member of Mensa for a couple of years,
and it meant absolutely nothing to me then or now.

--Bob


Russell McMahon wrote:

>>>FWIW - I believe my IQ is about the same as the much maligned US
>>>President
>>>      
>>>
>>http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.htm
>>    
>>
>
>Indeed.
>
>Read some more and you may find his probable IQ :-)
>
>FWIW - I just did the Mensa workout.
>They say I got 25/30. On looking I find only 4 I know I got 'wrong'.
>Shows a lack of IQ not being able to remember what the 5th was :-)
>
>I missed #1 "Sally likes"
>Annoyingly obvious in retrospect.
>
>I got not the scrambled word
>    HCPRAATEU
>
>Nor the other arrangement of
>    INSATIABLE
>
>I got #30 wrong - I find such arguments about patterns questionable.
>Some other questions also had doubtful ambiguous answers (even though 
>I got them right).
>I dislike ambiguous questions where you are at the whim of the asker.
>
>I got 7 right for the wrong reason - my rule was sound and worked but 
>wasn't their rule. They related but were not identical and just 
>happened to coincide.
>
>Similar with 21. Too much ambiguity.
>
>I got 25 correct and my rule was correct but more complex than their 
>rule - mine was a superset of theirs.
>
>As I said - I don't like this sort of test.
>
>I'd guess from their comment "very strong chance of passing the Mensa 
>test" that they rate that 120+ but I really wanted a numeric estimate 
>(be it ever so meaningless ;-) ).
>
>
>        RM
>
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