Posted on 10/08/2021 9:40:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I recall my father got two different results on his acceptance letter, within a few points of each other, for two separate scales.
I didn’t keep his letter or Mensa card after he passed away, but I still have his blue t-shirt. I didn’t keep my letter (like I mentioned, this was over 30 years ago), but I remember his top number and mine.
He truly enjoyed the meetings he went to and made several friends through the organization.
Inside the Shady World of DNA Testing Companies
BTW, when you give your DNA to Big Corporations, you're giving it to the Deep State.
The CEO of "23 & Me" is Anne Wojcicki, sister of CEO (& Chief Censor) of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki.
Not people to entrust with your DNA. I doubt Ancestry.com is any better.
“Mensa’s requirement for membership is a score at or above the 98th percentile on certain standardised IQ or other approved intelligence tests, such as the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales. The minimum accepted score on the Stanford–Binet is 132, while for the Cattell it is 148.[14] Most IQ tests are designed to yield a mean score of 100 with a standard deviation of 15; the 98th-percentile score under these conditions is 131, assuming a normal distribution.[15]
Most national groups test using well-established IQ test batteries, but American Mensa has developed its own application exam. This exam is proctored[clarification needed] by American Mensa and does not provide a score comparable to scores on other tests; it serves only to qualify a person for membership.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_International
Well I’m definitely not in the top 2% then! My high score at 18 came in at 138.
That’s okay. Means you’re likely more normal, at least.
Here is a joke: What do you get when you put two Jews together- three opinions.
“Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” 2Tim.3:15.
Can’t say about now, but in the 70s I attended an Ivy school with none of the requirements you mentioned, but I did have a high SAT and GPA along with national level involvement in the budding environmental movement, which I now find quite humorous. I’m in no way supportive of the leftist orientation of the Ivies, but present my experience to perhaps help separate opinion from fact.
Thank u
I try to be honest about the world and myself
Interesting. Long ago, in my 20s, I was at a children’s book convention and I kept going over to listen to interesting ethnic music at a booth run by Moses Asch. Bought stuff from him for my kids. He looked at me and said, “You must be Jewish to like this stuff.” I said,” Nope, Irish.” He said, “That explains it. The Arabs and Jews came to Ireland in the Spanish Armada.”
Sounded weird to. me, but just a few years ago, my neice got blood test done by National Geographic when they were still doing it. It revealed we started in SouthEast Africa, one of the first groups to go north. Egypt (plus Israel), Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, to Morocco, where we stayed for generations, then came to North Ireland. Probably not with the Armada, but with another group seeking conquest. Or freedom.
My daughter is the only person in the family skilled in foreign languages. Learned Arabic and went to visit friends in Tunisia, came home three years later. She had been to several countries. Tunisians liked Americans then, Algeria was a horrible mess, and she absolutely loved Morocco, a place she still recommends to traveling friends.
She lives in N Idaho now, married to the Sheriff, terrific Republican. Unfortunately unable to have kids, but four dogs are great. She actually brought a German Shep home from Tunisia, very best, smartest, largest Shep ever, named Pasha. He lived an extraordinarily long time, was NOT going to leave her safety to another dog as long as he could put one paw after the other.
Oy vey, my FRiend.
Two Jews, three opinions--about what's good for the Jews.
Perhaps it's heeding Torah rather than teachers unions when educating children. No, there may have not been unions for most of European history. But what your children learned, presuming you weren't a cultural outsider, was dictated by your betters. As was the question of whether your children should be educated at all. Probably a bigger issue.
There was an Aryan in the woodpile?
My “about” page discusses this at length.
I wonder if Vladimir Ashkenazy is any good?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsyGQYnvkMc
LOL. Yeah he is. Plays this 25% faster than I can, and infinitely more beautifully.
But political acuity is in inverse proportion to IQ. Must be.
Among them all is why Jews in Europe gained access to so many demanding professions at a time when (until the Napoleonic Code) they could not have citizenship, all across Europe.
The lack of citizenship was a curse to most but came with something positive for the brightest. No citizenship meant they could not get to political power, it was out of reach. But that also meant he smart ones could not be a threat to those in power, so those in power used them, assigning them roles - trading, international finance, farm and property management, tax collecting - rather than gives such roles to a citizen who could more easily use it to gain power for themselves. I read once how in Russia and the Ukraine there were two kinds of Jews - the poorest of the poor who had less than nothing, and the ones who managed all the serfs and the farms they farmed, for those who controlled all the land. The Jewish manager was rewarded well and got his children educated well, and the powers that be would let the Jew do all that but they’d never be a citizen, never be able to aspire to power in their own right.
RE: Among them all is why Jews in Europe gained access to so many demanding professions at a time when (until the Napoleonic Code) they could not have citizenship, all across Europe.
I guess the exception would be England. How do we explain the rise to the Prime Ministership of Benjamin Disraeli? Jewish by birth.
He became one of the most powerful and infuential men in Europe.
Is it because he converted to Christianity?
Disraeli was born in 1804, which is the very same year the Napoleonic Code was adopted and Jews began to have citizenship in more European states of their birth, and that is all after the period I was referring to.
I’m gonna to quote my deceased grandmother, born in Russia.
“Best not to mention it; they’re jealous on us.”
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