Poll: Mensa

Would you be a member of Mensa?

  • Already a member

    Votes: 21 7.0%

  • Could be a member if I could be bothered

    Votes: 87 29.0%

  • I don't think I would get in

    Votes: 39 13.0%

  • I don't know if I'd get in or not (and I don't care)

    Votes: 153 51.0%
  • Total voters
    300
My wife was in, but she said it was just a bunch of people sitting around whining about how hard it was being them... so she quit.
 
dowie said:
Its a bit silly when the premise behind the club is flawed to begin with.

Supposing we start quantifying 'beauty' and develop a controversial and arguably flawed test to assign people a 'Beauty Quotient' (some combination of facial symmetry, distances between eyes, shape of nose etc... that we've decided define 'beauty')... then some people form a beautiful persons club with entry dictated by your 'BQ' level.

Would the club not be slightly farcical... meaningless to the average Victoria's Secret model... might bring joy to the fat chick who's nose happens to be perfectly proportioned resulting in a high score. Likewise I'm sure the binman who's great at crosswords can gain some satisfaction from his mensa badge....
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Sounds similar to this
http://www.beautifulpeople.com/about
 
I took the exams and passed but didn't keep my membership active for long, didn't seem worth the money, just took it to see if I could pass tbh
 
Took the exams when I was 16 to prove a point to a mate, passed but never paid membership. Doesn't seem worth it in the slightest.
 
PobodY said:
My wife was in, but she said it was just a bunch of people sitting around whining about how hard it was being them... so she quit.
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As far as I understand IQ score (which I heard was created to identify people with mental problems) is just how fast your brain works.

IQ =/= wisdom, maturity or "class".

When I say someone is smart I don't mean they can do maths quickly, I mean they're wise to know what to do and generally make right decisions in life.

Sitting and whining as a group seems like pretty juvenile and irrational behavior.
 
I'm somewhere around 130 but don't care. What I've learnt is that there will be people in your life that are a lot smarter than you and you have to accept that. I came out of uni with a 1st feeling on top of the world. If you'd sat me down for a Mensa test then I would have taken it. I was quickly put in my place at my first job. I've worked with some incredibly smart people in the last few years and feel very humbled.
 
Already a member, been so for nearly 8 years. Some of the stuff in this thread is funny.
 
My Dad's a member of Mensa, and simply has a massive pile of completely unopened Mensa Magazine issues strewn all over the place. Looking at the covers as a well-read teenager, none of them drew enough interest for me to bother being the one to "crack the seal".
 
My wife was a member of Mensa when she was 12. Hasn't been since apparently, she says that the best bit was the certificate, and that was about it.

As for the magazines - we've enough crap we never throw away already!

As for the original question: yes, you're being cynical. Nothing wrong with being proud that you're shaper than the average moron about town.
 
You know when you're at the supermarket and you're doing your shopping? You probably have a set path if it's your regular store and you go into daydream mode and you buy the things you always buy and go to the aisles you always visit and then ... what on earth! ... you see some sun dried tomatoes in a plastic jar and you almost say out loud, "Plastic? Why is it plastic and not glass? Why would this even exist? Who made this happen? What is the point?"

This is Mensa.
 
[FnG]magnolia;23548276 said:
You know when you're at the supermarket and you're doing your shopping? You probably have a set path if it's your regular store and you go into daydream mode and you buy the things you always buy and go to the aisles you always visit and then ... what on earth! ... you see some sun dried tomatoes in a plastic jar and you almost say out loud, "Plastic? Why is it plastic and not glass? Why would this even exist? Who made this happen? What is the point?"

This is Mensa.
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Mensa: Blowing Your Mind.

In more ways than one.
 
If you made it common knowledge that you were in Mensa, wouldn't you have the constant feeling like everyone was trying to get one over on you or that you some how had to prove your intellect ?

I don't think I would get it, so I won't be taking the exam just so I can secretly keep telling my self "I could get into Mensa no probs" :D

MW
 
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