I found it interesting that the more recent (last 25 years or so) test scores are not acceptable as these "tests no longer correlate with an IQ test." Dumbing down, perhaps?
I only looked into this as an enhancer to my professional resume online. I think I made it with my ACT score from a million years ago.
Woke Quotient?
I took the test through mail in, the fee was $10- they sent back my results with a sympathy card and $20
Why would I stoop down to their level? ๐ค๐๐
Suffering for members?
Mensa-smensa...
I dated an English Woman for a while and she was “mensa” and was always informing people of that.
She may have thought that made her better than others. In her own mind anyway.
I will state that she was dumber than a toothpick when it came to common sense, street smarts and running a business.
In this case a Bar & Grille. Beer, liquor and wine sell themselves. She hardly ever broke even on Food sales. I told her to let Me run the kitchen and menu for Lunchtime. I did basic American food like Meatloaf with taters and veggies, Chicken Fried Steak and cream gravy with choice of taters and veggies, Pot Roast, Hamburger Steak, Cheese Steak sandwich and such. The 1st week tripled the Lunchtime sales and 6 times the next week because people spread the word about it. Without any advertising other than word of mouth.
We broke up a while after that and she went back to her original Lunchtime plan and it continued to FAIL !!! Some people are just stupid.
Good news travels fast but bad news travels faster.
I qualify on two counts. Stanford Binet (1959) 134 and LSAT (1986) 96%. I probably qualify with me PSAT, but I don’t remember my score, but it was high. I just miss on the SAT (1969).
I’ve known a couple of Mensa members and interestingly they weren’t rocket scientists. They were weird little guys who were very smart, but also marginally successful in mediocre jobs. They were for lack of a better word misfits. Very bright, very nice misfits, but people who just didn’t quite fit into normal society.
My mom once told me I was an idiot savant, without the savant part!
“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.
wy69
“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.
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!
How ‘bout dat, I’m genius dontchaknow. /snort
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.