Posted on 01/21/2020 10:09:07 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
A 3-year-old Malaysian boy living in the UK has become the youngest member to join Mensa UK, the largest and oldest international high IQ society in the world, Mensa officials said.
Muhammad Haryz Nadzim was invited to join Mensa after meeting with a psychologist and scoring 142 on the Stanford-Binet IQ test, placing him in the 99.7th percentile, his mother, Nur Anira Asyikin, told CNN.
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Why put a little 3 year old boy in that group?
My impression of Mensa is that it is populated by snobs whose main goal is to one-up each other about their intelligence.
Hope he’s smart enough to leave the Religion of Cut Them to Pieces.
“Why put a little 3 year old boy in that group?”
Good question. Mensa is a one-dimensional group, since intelligence is not just about IQ, but includes IQ, taxonomy, historical connections and conscience. Congratulations to people in Mensa and I hope they find a way to get law enforcement people to enforce pornography laws.
In high school, some test or other we all had to take ended with me having to go to the guidance counselor’s office to “meet MENSA people”, a week or so later.
It was surrealistic and I said “Yeah, no” and went back to the darkroom to finish my prints.
I didn’t like them, didn’t fit in with them and never saw the draw of such pretentious things, myself.
Somewhat similar experience here. Consistantly scoring in the 99th percentile on most standardized tests but I did not have a lot of interest in my classes. I always got a lot of attention when the results came back, but they were not sure what to do with me since I didn’t apply myself at school. I rode my bicycle 10,000 miles a year and was very successful at racing. I wanted to move to Europe to become a professional.
When I was his age I was just a smart alec.
I have not changed at all in the years since... : )
Exactly. If you need to get together with people so you can convince each other how smart you are, you’re definitely missing something.
Why did you stop dancing?
Meh. I scored higher than that 3 times. Not impressed.
Anyone smart enough to be a Freeper is smart enough for MENSA.
I get this notion of Mensa meetings as a bunch of socially awkward people sitting on folding chairs in a circle wordlessly working with their Rubik’s cubes.
Good for him, scoring a 142. It is an on the line score for Mensa, and not really a barn burner. I doubt that it is really a definitive score for him at three, psychologists are really practicing voodoo with those kind of scores at three. There are ‘lots’ of kids with 142’s. Not as many as 100’s but still not rare. Met a 170 in college once, taking 30 credits in a quarter successfully. He was DIFFERENT. 142 is just unusual. CNN is acting like he is the next Einstein, but it was just an exaggeration story. Lazy reporter, dumb story.
DK
must be ahead of the curve on potty training...
I live in Spain and the girl across the street from us is 3 years old, plays the piano and writes poetry. They just profiled her on TV. My wife held her in her arms when she was 2 days old and had just come back from the hospital, then we didn’t see her or her mother for almost 2 years. We thought the couple got divorced and they moved out but apparently her mother was keeping her prisoner and turning her into a prodigy. She is a celebrity but I feel sorry for her.
So easy a three year old can do it.
Your impression of Mensa is not mistaken. I joined in the early 70s, when I was 16, went to a couple of meetings, and decided it wasn’t for me.
“My impression of Mensa is that it is populated by snobs whose main goal is to one-up each other about their intelligence.”
You could not be more spot on.
Besides being snobs they are also very liberal nut cases.
After I graduated from college in 1979, I was approached by someone from Mensa and offered membership. I took their membership IQ test and passed with a high score (192). At that point I became a member. Not an hour later they asked if I would join them in an anti-military demonstration against the local ROTC.
Since I am a veteran. I resigned my membership right then and there.
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