LOL I was qualified for and joined Mensa, but it was overwhelmingly a bunch of pink yappers getting together to find minutae to agree about, and when I was there, diss on Pres Reagan.
acing that test is like acing any other test. you tailor your study parameters until you reach close to the test parameters and then you succeed. It is not a measure of intelligence at that point.
I had some good friends who were members of Mensa. I helped them in a small way to put on a colloquium/workshop involving Mensans from all over.
At the beginning of the conference, they split up into several different working groups, each one tasked to address the solutions to a specific World Problem, and then present their findings to the general session at the end.
It was like the Brightest Kids In The Room rolling up their (intellectual!) sleeves and digging right in on that nasty problem of overpopulation, or war, or messing up the environment. They came up with solutions, you betcha!
Scarcely a thread connecting them to the real world, of course.
I joined Mensa in my twenties based on an IQ test result when I was twelve. The meetings consisted of overeducated & underemployed/unemployed geeks dissing on Republicans and celebrating the virtues of their small cramped uncomfortable cars and/or apartments.
Mensa chicks tended to prove El Rushbo’s undeniable truth of life concerning the feminist movement.
After I learned to think for myself I let the membership lapse. Life does not require high intelligence in order for it to be successful and meaningful.
The New Yorker used to have some great cartoons but that’s decades gone. Nowadays it reads like the Daily Worker.