Comment by bena

9 months ago

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It came up because we talked about Mensa and he was part of it. I asked his iq and he told me. He claimed it and I believe him. Then the other guy also said he was offered to join Mensa but didn’t. Take from that what you will.

  • So we're talking about two people?

    Not a huge sample size. Not to mention, 150+ puts one in the 99.9th percentile. One in a thousand. So out of every thousand people you meet, one of them probably had an equivalent IQ.

    That being said, I guarantee that there are way more people on these boards with equivalent levels of intelligence and that those people also know several people with equivalent levels of intelligence. You are likely arguing against a couple of them. And you aren't arguing about something you can do, you are arguing about people who claim to be doing it.

    Also, let's separate "ability to program" from intelligence. While intelligence is a boon to most things, including ability to program, you can be smart and bad at things.

    Also, let's give them some benefit of the doubt. There is a difference between code you don't understand and poorly formatted code.