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IanTheTall said:I'm going to try to interpret what you are saying:
People who are too smart can see neither the tree nor the forest because they spend all of their time counting the leaves, on the forest.
Probably not. The more likely meaning is that the high numbers are vacuous. It's no great feat to devise an arbitrary test which will show that you are the highest-scoring person to ever take it, particularly if not too many people take it (as is the case for most of the so-called IQ tests on record). Call that an IQ test, and voila! There you are, Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius. There are people who enjoy that sterile activity. Do they impress anyone as particularly smart? Not really .... which is perhaps why they feel they need a number to prove something.
When I was at MIT I never heard anyone discuss IQ tests. They didn't seem interested. And if any were members of Mensa, I never heard them mention it. Can we conclude from that that they were all dummyheads?