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WarGamer

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8. And all not very valuable...

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:00 PM

Jul 15

I had one in my Senior year of High School in the cafeteria... I had one in Grad School and one that was MENSA administered on a whim by a co-worker at a hotel.

But it's not particularly useful... as an Engineer I can judge the intelligence of a person just by listening to them explain how something works...

Practical Intelligence... not IQ.

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