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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1966315" data-attributes="member: 4319"><p>Every Mensa member (or self-proclaimed Mensa member) I've ever met has been a total jerk. That's my experience. I had an unlikable AP Algebra teacher in school that was a Mensa member and spoke about it quite often in class. She was a dried up old hag teaching pubescent rednecks. Glad she made it to the top. </p><p></p><p>"Gifted" programs for kids are such a load of crap, too. I was thrust into them immediately and hated every moment. I eventually stopped going because the kids were awful - exact copies of me only missing the anxiety and self-loathing that makes me tolerable as a human being. My parents were called in and it was a big scene and I basically told my mom I'd rather be in class with my friends who rode skateboards and burned stuff. Gifted programs in schools are the best example of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect" target="_blank">Dunning-Kruger Effect</a> or more accurately the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_effect#IQ" target="_blank">Downing Effect</a>. </p><p></p><p>Being proud of being intelligent is as stupid as Nationalism or pride in some other meaningless BS you had no control over. Ted Kaczynski had an IQ of 167 and was ******* neo-luddite living alone in his own filth making bombs. Ayn Rand was very intelligent and she had the world view of a 13-year-old and wrote books worse than Dave Barry's Guide to Life. #wordisbond</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 1966315, member: 4319"] Every Mensa member (or self-proclaimed Mensa member) I've ever met has been a total jerk. That's my experience. I had an unlikable AP Algebra teacher in school that was a Mensa member and spoke about it quite often in class. She was a dried up old hag teaching pubescent rednecks. Glad she made it to the top. "Gifted" programs for kids are such a load of crap, too. I was thrust into them immediately and hated every moment. I eventually stopped going because the kids were awful - exact copies of me only missing the anxiety and self-loathing that makes me tolerable as a human being. My parents were called in and it was a big scene and I basically told my mom I'd rather be in class with my friends who rode skateboards and burned stuff. Gifted programs in schools are the best example of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect"]Dunning-Kruger Effect[/URL] or more accurately the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_effect#IQ"]Downing Effect[/URL]. Being proud of being intelligent is as stupid as Nationalism or pride in some other meaningless BS you had no control over. Ted Kaczynski had an IQ of 167 and was ******* neo-luddite living alone in his own filth making bombs. Ayn Rand was very intelligent and she had the world view of a 13-year-old and wrote books worse than Dave Barry's Guide to Life. #wordisbond [/QUOTE]
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