On 1/16/2014 10:21 AM, andrel wrote:
> On 16-1-2014 10:12, clipka wrote:
>
>>> and 2. Some yokel deciding that, having come up with a
>>> test, it never has to be recalibrated.
>>
>> To all my knowledge, those tests /are/ recalibrated every now and then.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
>
>
Kind of makes you wonder how many Mensa people, having been in it for 
decades, would either a) blow the old test out of the water, due to 
improvement, or b) fail spectacularly, because, in the intervening 
years, they went off and did other things, without "improving" the 
skills needed for the original test.

Mind, the latter is somewhat less likely.. It would be like expecting 
someone good at crosswords to both stop doing crosswords, and get worse 
at them, while still doing them. BTW - crosswords are something I hate, 
because they, frankly, often reference what, for anyone that doesn't do 
crosswords, are often obscure, or, among the general public, uncommon, 
references, when/if they don't just stuff something in that involves 
celebrities, or some other obscura, which no one, other than people 
obsessed with crosswords, or "popular culture" would give a damn about.

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