What does it mean to be a member of Mensa?
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it means you did well on their qualification test (a multi-hour logic, puzzle, reading, vocabulary and math test) and then you thought it would be fun to join a group of other people who likewise did well on that test. i took the test, because i like those kind of tests, and did well enough to get in. but i couldn't see the point of joining such a group.
I also took the test years ago. Qualified, but respectfully denied membership. As for the tests ... it was something like 60 or so assignments. Each assignment was some graphical logical sequence of nine symbols where the ninth symbol was missing and had to be selected from given options. So no language/math/... knowledge necessary, only logic.
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I also took the test years ago. Qualified, but respectfully denied membership. As for the tests ... it was something like 60 or so assignments. Each assignment was some graphical logical sequence of nine symbols where the ninth symbol was missing and had to be selected from given options. So no language/math/... knowledge necessary, only logic.
i took it two or three years ago. there were lots of those puzzle/logic sequences. tricky rotations and pattern recognition, etc.. some basic algebra, too but then there was a big section on listening comprehension; test administrator read a passage - twice, IIRC - from a story and then we had to answer questions about the passage.
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I have a colleague who is a member of this organization. However, I think the ID cards got mixed up because this person is actually retarded. So I ask of you members of the project that is code, what does it mean to be a member of Mensa? In case you haven't heard of it[^]
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It means they can pass some IQ tests which generally mean nothing; having a high IQ does not make people intelligent.
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I guess if you pay them money and can tell them the answer to 2 plus 2 you're in.
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but they're willing to overlook an incorrect answer if you double your "donation"...
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It means you have convinced a bunch of charmless losers that you should hang out with them doing logic problems instead of getting a life! They really are a sad collection of introverted tossers, I have never met a mensa member who is more interesting than the table the group is named after.
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Not pass the test, huh :)
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i took it two or three years ago. there were lots of those puzzle/logic sequences. tricky rotations and pattern recognition, etc.. some basic algebra, too but then there was a big section on listening comprehension; test administrator read a passage - twice, IIRC - from a story and then we had to answer questions about the passage.
Chris Losinger wrote:
but then there was a big section on listening comprehension; test administrator read a passage - twice, IIRC - from a story and then we had to answer questions about the passage.
I would not do well on that portion. I have the memory of a goldfish.
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It means they can pass some IQ tests which generally mean nothing; having a high IQ does not make people intelligent.
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
But it usually does make you a social retard... ;P
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i took it two or three years ago. there were lots of those puzzle/logic sequences. tricky rotations and pattern recognition, etc.. some basic algebra, too but then there was a big section on listening comprehension; test administrator read a passage - twice, IIRC - from a story and then we had to answer questions about the passage.
For me it was only puzzle/logic sequences. No algebra or listening or anything else. It was about 7 or 8 years ago. Perhaps the tests have changed to cover broader skills, which makes perfect sense to me, as intelligence cannot be exclusively mathematical/logical/etc. IMO.
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i took it two or three years ago. there were lots of those puzzle/logic sequences. tricky rotations and pattern recognition, etc.. some basic algebra, too but then there was a big section on listening comprehension; test administrator read a passage - twice, IIRC - from a story and then we had to answer questions about the passage.
Yeah, that sounds like the one I took earlier this year... I did great on the passage, and the rotations and such weren't so bad... But half the test was a bunch of relationships with images ("Which if these is most like/unlike this"), which could be related in enough different ways that it felt like a "Guess what the author was thinking" puzzle... These were like shrunk-down Office clip art images, not just abstract shapes. As for the algebra... That actually caught me off-guard... I've gotten so used to just grabbing a calculator, a cell phone, or a computer, that I had practically forgotten how to do multiplication (Talking about 4-digit numbers, not quick stuff)... Slowed me down enough to mess up my score. But hey, with all that, combined with me operating on four hours of sleep, I still only missed qualifying by one point. No point in retaking... I know I could have done it.
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But it usually does make you a social retard... ;P
I think many of them already have that distinction.
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
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I have a colleague who is a member of this organization. However, I think the ID cards got mixed up because this person is actually retarded. So I ask of you members of the project that is code, what does it mean to be a member of Mensa? In case you haven't heard of it[^]
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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Chris Losinger wrote:
but then there was a big section on listening comprehension; test administrator read a passage - twice, IIRC - from a story and then we had to answer questions about the passage.
I would not do well on that portion. I have the memory of a goldfish.
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
AspDotNetDev wrote:
I would not do well on that portion. I have the memory of a goldfish.
I’ll five-vote you for this post if I don’t forget to.
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I have a colleague who is a member of this organization. However, I think the ID cards got mixed up because this person is actually retarded. So I ask of you members of the project that is code, what does it mean to be a member of Mensa? In case you haven't heard of it[^]
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
I am a member of American Mensa. All it "means" to be a member is that I have a qualifying test score (national organizations have varying lists; here is the US list[^]) that places me in the 98th or 99th percentile. In general, Mensans have a kind of intellectual ADD: if you listen to a group of us talking, the conversation might well start out about cars, then move to the theory of interstellar space travel, to cosmology, to stellar physics, to nuclear power, to global warming and back to cars, all in about ten minutes time. It is a given that sex and food will be mentioned several times during that same ten minutes. This doesn't mean we're "retarded", just that our discussions are given more lead to wander where they will. A lot of people find such conversations difficult to follow; to be honest, we feel just as frustrated talking you. The result is that many high IQ people (Mensans and not) tend to be socially maladjusted: we don't get the kind of practice and positive feedback that you get for being social. That is why Mensa exists, to be a social organization that makes it easier for us to meet one another and engage people at our level.
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I also took the test years ago. Qualified, but respectfully denied membership. As for the tests ... it was something like 60 or so assignments. Each assignment was some graphical logical sequence of nine symbols where the ninth symbol was missing and had to be selected from given options. So no language/math/... knowledge necessary, only logic.
Each national organization has their own tests, and qualifying tests can be very different. About seven years ago, I took the American Mensa proctored test rather than a "standard" IQ test. It started out with a passage being read to us, then several tests that measured our ability to decypher patterns, perform basic computational skills, work logic puzzles and the like, then a final test about what we remembered from the read passage we heard about an hour and a half earlier.
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I am a member of American Mensa. All it "means" to be a member is that I have a qualifying test score (national organizations have varying lists; here is the US list[^]) that places me in the 98th or 99th percentile. In general, Mensans have a kind of intellectual ADD: if you listen to a group of us talking, the conversation might well start out about cars, then move to the theory of interstellar space travel, to cosmology, to stellar physics, to nuclear power, to global warming and back to cars, all in about ten minutes time. It is a given that sex and food will be mentioned several times during that same ten minutes. This doesn't mean we're "retarded", just that our discussions are given more lead to wander where they will. A lot of people find such conversations difficult to follow; to be honest, we feel just as frustrated talking you. The result is that many high IQ people (Mensans and not) tend to be socially maladjusted: we don't get the kind of practice and positive feedback that you get for being social. That is why Mensa exists, to be a social organization that makes it easier for us to meet one another and engage people at our level.
Thanks for the explanation...I still think he's retarded.
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Yeah, that sounds like the one I took earlier this year... I did great on the passage, and the rotations and such weren't so bad... But half the test was a bunch of relationships with images ("Which if these is most like/unlike this"), which could be related in enough different ways that it felt like a "Guess what the author was thinking" puzzle... These were like shrunk-down Office clip art images, not just abstract shapes. As for the algebra... That actually caught me off-guard... I've gotten so used to just grabbing a calculator, a cell phone, or a computer, that I had practically forgotten how to do multiplication (Talking about 4-digit numbers, not quick stuff)... Slowed me down enough to mess up my score. But hey, with all that, combined with me operating on four hours of sleep, I still only missed qualifying by one point. No point in retaking... I know I could have done it.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Ian Shlasko wrote:
I had practically forgotten how to do multiplication
i probably groaned out loud when it came time to do long division by hand. what a nightmare that is...
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I am a member of American Mensa. All it "means" to be a member is that I have a qualifying test score (national organizations have varying lists; here is the US list[^]) that places me in the 98th or 99th percentile. In general, Mensans have a kind of intellectual ADD: if you listen to a group of us talking, the conversation might well start out about cars, then move to the theory of interstellar space travel, to cosmology, to stellar physics, to nuclear power, to global warming and back to cars, all in about ten minutes time. It is a given that sex and food will be mentioned several times during that same ten minutes. This doesn't mean we're "retarded", just that our discussions are given more lead to wander where they will. A lot of people find such conversations difficult to follow; to be honest, we feel just as frustrated talking you. The result is that many high IQ people (Mensans and not) tend to be socially maladjusted: we don't get the kind of practice and positive feedback that you get for being social. That is why Mensa exists, to be a social organization that makes it easier for us to meet one another and engage people at our level.
There is your problem. Instead of focusing your enormously big brains on the world problems and solving them one at a time, you are jumping from subject to subject barely scratching the surface of the problems. I think Mensa should become a totalitarian organization and for the sake of the society to force you to focus on a specific subject using all necessarily measures even if they include electricity, whips and\or a variety of rusty steel tools.
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
I had practically forgotten how to do multiplication
i probably groaned out loud when it came time to do long division by hand. what a nightmare that is...
Actually, I've gotten pretty good at doing division in my head... You really only have to remember one string of digits and one carry... With long-form multiplication, you have to do a 1xN for each digit and accumulate, so there are a lot more digits to remember. But then, it's still faster on paper... And I still wasn't fast enough.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels) -
I have a colleague who is a member of this organization. However, I think the ID cards got mixed up because this person is actually retarded. So I ask of you members of the project that is code, what does it mean to be a member of Mensa? In case you haven't heard of it[^]
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
Mensa is more or less a self-help group for people with high IQ's whose spirits got crushed in gears of meritocracy. Having a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart. It just means you're good at some things most people are really bad at. Being a member doesn't mean anything, except that you get to go to meetings and meet new people.
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I have a colleague who is a member of this organization. However, I think the ID cards got mixed up because this person is actually retarded. So I ask of you members of the project that is code, what does it mean to be a member of Mensa? In case you haven't heard of it[^]
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
This is an organization of people who have made the effort to take the Mensa test and scored among the top few persent. The tests are basically measuring the mathematical intelligence as opposite to the emotional intelligence. That’s why membership in Mensa will look great in the resume of the programmer but solely is not enough well you’re hiring manager, marketing specialist or engineer who will be a project leader. AFAIK it also doesn’t measure the creativity. IMO this test are not to be underestimated but in many cases the summary of the high school grades/score will give you far more reliable information of how intelligent a person is.
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