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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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Tja@programming.dev ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Obfuscate your intelligence? Being a reddit mod sounds like it’s part of the plan, then.

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- quetzaldilla@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oh snap, you’re right. It’s like a 200 IQ move. 😂
  
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Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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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- squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  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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  - Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    As I see it, that’s both a problem of low self-confidence and passiveness (or maybe underdeveloped values).
    
    For the first, we all have several qualities, but people often don’t recognize or value certain qualities, especially people driven mainly by what they think others value and hence end up valuing pretty much just the qualities modern Society focuses on - namely Wealth, Beauty and Brains - which is a typical low self-confidence thing.
    
    For the rest, as I see it, having some inherent quality that one was born with isn’t exactly something deserving of much pride because it’s not something one did anything to achieve. If that much one’s parents deserve the recognition for the “achievement”, though they didn’t actually do it on purpose, so maybe not even them. Having pride in being born with a high IQ makes about as much sense as having pride in being born in a rich family: it’s masturbatory ego stroking about one’s luck rather than a celebration of one’s successes.
    
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    squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That’s pretty much what I mean. If the thing one the most proud of is a high IQ, then that person probably doesn’t have a lot going for them.
    
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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 with a speciality,and a bunch of faults or not and someone bad at school math can become a genious engineer. And both can be equally good or bad politicians.

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