• dalekcaan@feddit.nl
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    19 hours ago

    A reddit mod for a mensa sub sounds like possible the most insufferable combination imaginable

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      If you happened to have an unusually high IQ, why you would you choose to join Mensa, or be a moderator on Reddit for that matter?

      The smartest thing you can do is obfuscate your level of intelligence, not brag about it. That’s just how you end up doing more work and getting blamed by everyone around you.

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        Eh, intelligence is fluid and the whole concept of a single IQ score is broken. Someone with a high IQ can be real-world dumb and someone bad at school math can become a genious engineer. And both can be equally good or bad at politics. It’s all just skills. What matters is mental flexibility (how well you halves are connected) and a healthy image of self and others.

        As long as you try to keep a flexible viewpoint and to experience new things now and then, you’re doing more for your skull muscle than most.

        Edit: ok, training your visual-conceptual imaginative power seems to be beneficial overall.

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        As far as I can tell, most people out there have expectations about high IQ people which are straight out of Hollywood films and wholly unrealistic, so best just leave then with whatever de facto impression of brightness they have about you than mention a number and trigger the “Mental Superman” expectations.

        Also going around parading your IQ falls straight into the rule “the more a person brags about some great personal quality, the less strong it is” - if you’re really that bright, brave, strong, beautiful, confident and so on, there is no need to mention it since it’s generally obvious to others.

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          Also going around parading your IQ falls straight into the rule “the more a person brags about some great personal quality, the less strong it is”

          Or it’s your only quality. The main reason to join Mensa is that you haven’t accomplished anything better since the IQ test you took as a youth.

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        Obfuscate your intelligence? Being a reddit mod sounds like it’s part of the plan, then.