Reply To: “I’m A Mensan Now”
Exactly right.
My take: there are many different kinds of intelligence, many different ways to be smart and many different things to be smart about. You can be book smart, street smart, mathematically smart, socially smart, polItically smart, and a whole lot of other kinds of smarts too numerous to name. The IQ tests and similar tests that are the sole qualification for Mensa membership only measure one small segment of things to be smart about, and it’s not all that easy to define what that segment is and what it really means.
And nobody can be smart about everything. There’s just too many areas of smartness for that to be possible.