How to Think Like a Genius 53-Rational
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/07/22
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Then what should be the main cautionary notes for people to be rational about how they take IQ tests?
Rick Rosner: The first question you want to ask is why do you give a crap about IQ. Nobody is going to have sex with you about your IQ. Mensa is full of people hoping to join to meet a girl who was into nerds, and it just doesn’t happen very much. It might happen in movies. There was a movie called Real Genius where a hot woman is going around trying to to find the ten highest IQs or smartest people in America and bang them. She never found me in real life. That doesn’t happen.
You need to be able to use your IQ to figure out social norms enough to meet somebody in a way that is just you waving your IQ around because it is not going to get you anywhere. If you go into a job and brag about IQ, it shows that you are socially tone deaf and inept and probably wouldn’t fit in a work environment. Bragging in a work environment is probably a bad idea unless you’re willing to own a certain amount of freakishness and has a certain amount of high IQ and has a freakish interest in IQ which I’ve done.
Jacobsen: Sex, work, possibly selling yourself as something unique.
Rosner: You’re not going to get sex or a job with your IQ or at least by talking about it. It shows that you’re a creepy nerd.
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