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A smart woman who was looking for a relationship joined Mensa, figuring that
the meetings would be full of intelligent men, and therfore - successful men.

She attended a few of the meetings and was disappointed because she felt that
the men there may have passed the IQ threshold, but were very socially awkward.

This was a true anecdote that I read somewhere.

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We all know that there's middling IQ folks who are very successful,
and conversely, there's high IQ folks who couldn't pour water out of a boot if the
directions were on the heel. :-)

One example of this is a book I read recently about Bernie Madoff, the NYC Ponzi
schemer who was convicted of scamming billions of dollars from many investors.

A recurring theme from interviews with those who knew him as a child and youth was that he
was not a very good student due to not being very smart. His brother was the smart
scholastic achiever in the family, but the smart brother ended up working at Bernie's
investment firm for the dumb brother.

Although Madoff was not smart in the scholastic sense, he was able to schmooze billions
out of people, and keep a Ponzi scheme going for approximately 40 years. Evil, yes,
but also a prodigious feat. He got 150 years in the slammer for his troubles, and one of
his sons committed suicide recently.

SIA