What does it mean to be a member of Mensa?
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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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Actually, Mensa was founded (in Oxford, UK, 1943) specifically "to identify and to foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity." The idea was to create a brain trust that governments could turn to when they needed help figuring out their problem. It didn't work out quite that way: people felt a bit skittish after WW II with having a "superior master group" calling the shots. Imagine that. :rolleyes: There are a few think tanks (in the US, at least) that heavily recruit Mensa members, and several others that do not recruit but will put Mensans on the top of their HR's inbox. Mensa International and the various national Mensa groups, however, are just member-driven social clubs, nothing more.
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Not pass the test, huh :)
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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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0bx wrote:
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.
It it's that, really. Most people have either an in-depth knowledge of one or two fields (just football, or just gardening, or just computer coding), or they have a dabbling interest in many fields (they'll cook, knit, play World of Warcraft and strum a guitar, but only a little bit in all of these.) In my experience, Mensans tend to have a strong interest in and knowledge of many fields: they might be great cooks, have an excellent flower garden, be active in the local dodgeball league, read several books every week and sit on a couple of charity boards. It is not that we are good that things that most people are really bad at; its that we typically have more things that we are good at than is typical. Mind you, though, that doesn't mean we are good at everything, even though a lot of us like to pretend that we are. :rolleyes: We may have more fields of expertise, but outside of those we're just as ignorant as everyone else.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Peaked at 154.
Pfft. Not even enough to join Mega Society. Pathetic.
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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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Deyan Georgiev wrote:
in many cases the summary of the high school grades/score will give you far more reliable information of how intelligent a person is.
I would disagree. Public education systems are geared toward the mediocre average: if you are significantly above or below that average, you will do poorly.
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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 that your dating opportunities will be limited to people who are even more boring than you, unless of course, you stick to dates who barely qualified for admission. :-D
Will Rogers never met me.
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It means that your dating opportunities will be limited to people who are even more boring than you, unless of course, you stick to dates who barely qualified for admission. :-D
Will Rogers never met me.
Just because you can't keep up with us doesn't mean we're boring ;P
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It means that your dating opportunities will be limited to people who are even more boring than you, unless of course, you stick to dates who barely qualified for admission. :-D
Will Rogers never met me.
Roger Wright wrote:
stick to dates who barely qualified for admission
You mean like ditzy brunettes?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Peaked at 154.
Pfft. Not even enough to join Mega Society. Pathetic.
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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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 may have poor sample, but it seems to me that it means your IQ is in the upper 1.95% - 2.0% of the population.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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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)
Not much, apparently, if you take into consideration the grammar and punctuation of the member who is representing the organization in this thread!
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0bx wrote:
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.
It it's that, really. Most people have either an in-depth knowledge of one or two fields (just football, or just gardening, or just computer coding), or they have a dabbling interest in many fields (they'll cook, knit, play World of Warcraft and strum a guitar, but only a little bit in all of these.) In my experience, Mensans tend to have a strong interest in and knowledge of many fields: they might be great cooks, have an excellent flower garden, be active in the local dodgeball league, read several books every week and sit on a couple of charity boards. It is not that we are good that things that most people are really bad at; its that we typically have more things that we are good at than is typical. Mind you, though, that doesn't mean we are good at everything, even though a lot of us like to pretend that we are. :rolleyes: We may have more fields of expertise, but outside of those we're just as ignorant as everyone else.
I like your explanations Gregory. :thumbsup:
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Not much, apparently, if you take into consideration the grammar and punctuation of the member who is representing the organization in this thread!
Jason Hooper wrote:
Not much, apparently, if you take into consideration the grammar and punctuation of the member who is representing the organization in this thread!
If you are talking about Gregory then I should let you know that IMHO he is a stand up guy. Being intelligent has nothing to do with spelling and grammar.
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I may have poor sample, but it seems to me that it means your IQ is in the upper 1.95% - 2.0% of the population.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
I may have poor sample
:-D
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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)
It means you passed a test to qualify for membership. This test supposedly tells you your IQ. I'm a member, for the record. I looked through the membership directory at one point long ago and saw that Piers Anthony[^] was also a member. Of course, the people that have posted insults probably consider him a loser too, despite his dozens of best selling novels. I'd be willing to bet there are many respectable geeks that are members. The best thing about membership is being able to talk to other intelligent people that don't feel important by insulting people on message boards.
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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 was fascinated by Mensa when I was a teenager and qualified to be a member by my scores on other tests, but then I thought, "Why would I pay money to be a member of this group?"
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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)
It's like a drivers license. (It has absolutely nothing to do with how well you can drive.)
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It means you passed a test to qualify for membership. This test supposedly tells you your IQ. I'm a member, for the record. I looked through the membership directory at one point long ago and saw that Piers Anthony[^] was also a member. Of course, the people that have posted insults probably consider him a loser too, despite his dozens of best selling novels. I'd be willing to bet there are many respectable geeks that are members. The best thing about membership is being able to talk to other intelligent people that don't feel important by insulting people on message boards.
I would guess that you are a regular member that is posting under a sock puppet account. Of course, I could be wrong...I usually am.
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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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)
It means you've spent a lot of time doing silly puzzles in puzzle books, because they equate intelligence with proficiency with that kind of silly puzzle. It doesn't take a genius to recognise that if a couple of hours practice with silly puzzle books before taking a mensa test can miraculously increase your intelligence, then there's something seriously wrong with the measuring system. Most of the mensa types I've met have been thick as bricks, and incapable of handling anything unexpected (a true measure of intelligence is to do with associative ability, which allows genuinely clever people to handle new situations by quickly and abstractedly cross-referring the new with the known to find possibilities), but they can finish silly puzzle books before their third spoonful of breakfast.
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