The Case Against Geniuses - Facts So Romantic

Once you're called a "genius," what's left? No, getting called a "genius" is the final accolade, the last laudatory label for anyone. At least that's how several members of Mensa, an organization of those who've scored in the 98th percentile on an IQ test, see it. "I don't look at myself as a genius," LaRae Bakerink, a business consultant and a Mensa member, said. "I think that's because I see things other people have done, things they have created, discovered, or invented, and I look at those people in awe, because that's not a capability I have."