“I’ve known this for years. MENSA membership is obtained with an IQ of 140 or so, but a actual MENSA meeting is a robust gathering of underachievers. “
Gosh do I ever agree.
I dated a very nice lady in SE Kansas. She was a member of MENSA. She was an editor of a tiny paper in Pittsburg Kansas and happy with her position. She convinced me to go to a meeting at Pizza Hut with her peers. They were just run of the mill folks but were very impressed with their MENSA status. They weren’t impressed with the fact that I had two masters degrees in the hard sciences, several patents and well published. I wasn’t MENSA, I somehow had cheated. Their entry pamphlet was silly ass puzzles. I referred them to “Fermats Enigma” and how it got solved by Simon Singh. They looked at me like I was speaking left handed Swahilli. I am just a pretty average guy for an engineer but I could follow Singhs’ proof. In fairness it is easy when you have the answer. What worked for me was a good engineering base and lots of practice and ambition.
Just my thoughts
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My eldest son is the classic overachiever. I have never classified him as my smartest child, but he has been on auto-pilot since the second grade. He kept bugging Harvard until they admitted him, at the age of 29, to get his second degree. He is paying for it himself, with money he has earned since his FIRST graduation. I’m sure MENSA couldn’t use him.