Posted on 08/08/2024 9:35:05 AM PDT by fwdude
American Mensa accepts scores from approximately 200 different standardized intelligence tests*. Often potential members have taken acceptable tests at other times in their lives and don’t realize they may already qualify for membership.
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Roger that!
There are plenty of reasons for those misfits. Family biases and traditions can be major social roadblocks.
I’d expect most Mensa members to be quite nerdy, socially inept and a little “off” in areas of their lives. Personally, I don’t know if I’ve met or known any Mensa members, which are the kind I’d like to know.
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like that high a bar, does it?
Perhaps it’s been dumbed down due to the incursion of the woke crowd.
What’s passed for “excelling” in an academic field recently has been horrific. Check out the top national “debate” champions featured in a lot of recent online videos. They’re a couple black chicks hyperventilating over “racism” in different areas of life in the style of a free-form poetry reading. It’s really quite entertaining and horrific at the same time.
LOL- they are sending me letters asking me to stop submitting new test results lol j/k
I know a pretty intelligent guy who was in a job that required him to make use of subject reference works that featured concepts named after his boss.
My mom once told me I was an idiot savant, without the savant part!
Maybe we can join Densa together.
I was invited to join MENSA in 1976 after I got my Army ASVAB GT score of 148 (local recruiter said that was the second highest score he’d ever seen, first being my brother three years earlier, had a draft # of ONE right when the little dustup in VN was called off). So my first permanent duty station, Monterey chapter said to add ten points to get a rough IQ score. Sure. So I joined. Paid a few bucks’ worth of dues, went to a couple meetings. Mostly D&D and SFF discussions. The single most boring, arrogantly entitled, cluster “F” of effete snobs and geeks I would never want to be associated with again in this lifetime. But it looked good on my college and med school applications and CV for future jobs; Phi Beta Kappa got more notice.
“I only looked into this as an enhancer to my professional resume online.”
You might want to reconsider using a high IQ as a resume teaser in leau of more experience that can word match. When the economy starting falling apart, again, in the late 1990’s, one of the most used reasons for refusal of employment was “over qualified.” This was why a lot of highly educated people were walking the streets in pursuit of a position at any level.
In many positions, leaders don’t feel comfortable with intelligent people around them as they threaten their control. CEO’s in many cases are not there to run the companies. They are contracted to accomplish some specific task. And at the end of the timeline they’ll be released if they don’t to the owner’s opinion. This is why we have professional CEO’s in the business world. But anyone that challenges their ability to reach their contracted goals is a problem. And in some cases, their goals don’t even match up with the bottom line directly. It can be a problem.
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“I had no idea, always thought that an IQ test was required to get into MENSA. The list of qualifying scores is quite broad.”
I qualify based upon my Stanford Binet and Woodcock Johnson scores. But I can’t be bothered trying to get the documentation from 40 to 50 years ago.
Yep. Serial killer Ted Bundy was 136 IQ. A lot of other pieces of garbage killers scored much higher even.
SAT’s after Jan 1994 do not qualify because they don’t sufficiently measure intelligence (per the score page.)
I wonder why that is.
Yep, one of my esteemed parents joined Mensa, long ago, and went to some get-togethers in Manhattan, where you could meet the cream of the crop. People like Asimov, people celebrated for brains. Verdict: “They stuck to the same subjects as anyone else: food, work, and sex, in that order.”
Me, I hang out with my neighbors, they are mostly elderly folk who need rides or other such assistance. They are not, as far as I can tell, Mensa material, but I learn from them all the time and they are never boring.
I got into MENSA with a standardized test score a long time ago.
But I have not paid MENSA dues or been active in MENSA for a long time.
In my experience, MENSA was mainly a club for high-IQ atheists, not Christians like me!
I visited a local chess club, what I would depict as a close approximation of what a Mensa meeting would be, and I got the exact same whiff of snobbery that you mention. I played one of the best guys at the table just for fun. I lost, but made some moves that really put him in a spot. I never went back, even though I craved some competition playing the game. No one in my immediate circle or family play.
How ‘bout dat, I’m genius dontchaknow. /snort
LMAO!
I can definitely see that.
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