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Re: "Definitely a docs issue, clearly written by a really 'clever' person "

"One case was down to a MENSA member, so he really was a genius. "

Not necessarily.

Mensa is supposed to be open to the top 2% of the population by IQ, which is only about an IQ of 130, depending on the test (two standard deviations above the mean, near enough).

IIRC, 'genius' starts somewhere around 145 to 160 (about 1 standard deviation above the Mensa lower limit), depending on who is doing the definition... one source quoted 140, and another stated that 125 was 'necessary but not sufficient'. I expect that last can be discounted as an idiosyncratic outlier, using a rather different conception of the term.

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