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>people who are really strong actually do talk about their max in various lifts
People good at lifting weights talk about their success at lifting weights.

>People who are really good at golf actually do talk about their handicaps
People good at golf talk about their success in golf

>IQ tests
People good at scoring high in standardized tests talk about their success in all things brain.

One of those is not like the others. Golfers do not engage in some non-golfing exercise to decide if they are good or bad at golfing. Mensa folks do talk about their IQs as a measure of their success in solving pattern-recognition puzzles, they are not ashamed of it and nobody minds it. IQ's utility was severely hampered by it's proponents overhyping the shit out of it by declaring it a "measure of intellect", when a single look at a typical high IQ savant is enough for anyone to start doubting this claim. They should've stuck to promoting it as a test for a particular skill and we would've gotten way more mileage out of it.

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