IQ and other psychometric assessments are not actually backed by hard science but vibes

so when someone brags about having a "genius level IQ", just write them off as a narcissist

sincerely, your local psychologist turned software engineer

humans and other animals are complex systems, while there are diagnostic tests which measure a degree of performance in specific skill areas, you can't really boil someone's intelligence down to a single number: the person who sucks at math might be a great strategist, for example

incidentally: psychometric evaluation is heavily biased toward performance in math and other hard logic categories in general, so-called IQ tests especially.

also while I am dropping truth bombs: Mensa has problematic connections with the eugenics movement

@ariadne iirc the more eugenicist founder got bored of mensa because people just wanted to solve puzzles rather than founding a new wold order lmao