Another one of my favorites.
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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I have the same problem with my ACT score. I contacted ACT and the list of requirements to retrieve the score from their archives is almost a page long, and would cost me close to $50. Then it occurred to me that my first college might still have them on file for the asking.
Ha, too many of those college entrance tests can be taken by someone other than you.
The old IQ tests, such as the Stanford Binet, WISC, etc., were a joke. When I was a kid, colleges would use me as a guinea pig to teach how to give the tests. It didn’t take but one or two tries to learn how to keep answering with correct answers to drag it out all day (higher score) or to end it quickly (lower score) if I was bored. I hadn’t heard of Mensa but picked up on their reactions to know to never get above 132 - you know about how long it takes to reach, cough, “genius” scores. No, I am NOT anywhere close to a true genius but it was easy to learn to play the game.
Now I know why our teacher in junior high didn’t care who got who’s California Achievement Test when we came back after lunch.
Did they ever put headlights on the car puzzle for little kids?
“You’re killin’ me Smalls !”
Seriously, most people have bosses who are dumber than fence posts.
I qualify on at least three: SAT, Army GCT, and AFQT. Not sure I could document that claim since I took those tests over 50 years ago.
As a Mensan I can tell you that most of them are leftists. But meetings and discussions are civil.
In June/July of each year (when everyone moved up a notch) we'd always try to guess who the Harvard grads were. We found that the Harvard grads were the ones who could talk for 6 hours,non stop,about the uvula but if you handed them a pop up umbrella they were clueless.
i remember that one!
Another one of my favorites.
Thanks for the info, although I think I’ll content my self with having official grounds for sneering at MENSA. I’ve benefitted from going to Cornell by being able to make snarky comments about the Ivy League for years.
If 1250 on the SAT qualified pre 1994 I don’t think it is one in 300. I scored 1450 on it my junior year and didn’t bother retaking it. The guy who ended up going to Harvard (three of us applied) scored 1440 and retook it. I’m sure at least 10, and probably more like 20, in our class would have topped 1250 (to begin with someone else likely beat both of us on the English side— my 710 having beat his 700—but her math would have held her back some-—but I’m sure she broke 530).
And that is from a class of only 400 (in grade 9—down to about 300 at the end of grade 12) at a school that was not known for breadth of intellectual achievement.
I got hooked on Chess.com
Over the board is better, but if you are good enough and in a small town, there generally aren’t too many people in one’s own range. One of my sons really took off about 4 years ago and there is only one guy in town who can keep up with him (the son has moved to Ottawa and has both peers and superiors there).
SAT’s after Jan 1994 do not qualify because they don’t sufficiently measure intelligence (per the score page.)
I wonder why that is.
I think ‘94 was when they went to the three-part version, adding an essay portion that was both more subjective and devalued math.
And some time around there they rigged it so that you could miss one (or possibly two)_ and still get an 800.
Grade inflation devalues things.
I have a fairly long post upthread ragging on the SAT
“...most people have bosses who are dumber than fence posts.”
Maybe. There has to be a reason they are in positions of authority. In some cses it’s their brother in law. But for major corporations generally CEO’s are selected to do one or two things by contract. They are not employees of the company per say.
Let me display one. Many years ago, for a spark plug company, a majority stockholder and CEO of the board invented a new resister for plugs. And it was good. He wanted to put it on the plug company he CEO’d for but the board resisted. There was a proxy fight and other board members joined and there was a hostile takeover. Thus his little stock, even though it was a quarter of the company, lost it’s power. So he sold out and left.
But, as he was the founder of the company, he controlled the copyrights and patents so they had to go through him to get anything done. He, in the mean time, went to his competitor and offered them the resister which they happily started using. And for that, the old CEO at one became an equal partner with the new one. Ever wonder what the AC on Delco stands for...Albert Champion.
wy69
What year did you graduate?
If 1250 would qualify one, I bet that between a third and two thirds of those who took forensics for more than one year would have qualified.
So far as I know, I’ve never met anyone in MENSA, but anyone who has come to know me at all well can see that I wouldn’t see it as a resume-enhancer. Undoubtedly I have cross paths with such creatures but they have been bright enough not to bring the subject up.
It’s to the credit of Coos County that you have known so few.
I graduated in ‘88. I only knew a handful of members of the class of ‘85 well, but I’m sure half of them would qualify. I can’t picture any of them bothering to join.
I can’t picture that year’s tithe to Harvard (and my mentor in debate) joining in a million years. He managed to become a preacher in Idaho after graduating from Harvard. He was om some ways very irreligious his senior year, but had the endearing habit of taking Gideon Bibles from hotel rooms after cutting out “thou shall not steal” and leaving that verse behind.
Perhaps this guy had something to prove, if only to himself. He and one of his best friends were among three MHS grads I know of that survived serious head injuries sustained in motorcycle crashes.
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