In Mensa!

Sawell said:
Judging by this thread, your name, your signature and your attitude in later posts, you clearly have quite a fond affection for yourself.

Perhaps you can use your massive mensa IQ to make a clone and then you can go **** yourself.
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:D
I love you, may we make sweet love and children together?
 
me227 said:
Go to those Mensa sex parties. Best way to breed a smarter generation.
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A bunch of 50+ men with beards start rubbing jam on you calling you their special little scone, then one of them whispers gently into your ear "but we're going to have to provide our own cream".
 
Greebo said:
I have another problem. To join Mensa you must have an IQ in the top 2% of the world, right?

Surely that changes all the time if the population slowly dumbs down or smartens up?

And anybody know roughly just how many people in the world fall within the top 2%?
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Roughly? 2%.
 
Raikiri said:
Roughly? 2%.
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:D:(

I meant numbers, not pecentages.

Anyway aparantly there are 100,000 members of Mensa in the world and it is a World wide organisation not just each country treated seperately.

Also, the average IQ has been going up by 3 points every 10 years and it is estimated that a third of the current members would not score high enough to be accepted into Mensa today.

And this is my favourite quote:

philosopher Karl Popper was invited to join Mensa, 'he said, whatever his intelligence was, it wasn't so low as to make him want to sit around with people whose only attribute was they the did well on IQ tests.'
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Greebo said:
:D:(

I meant numbers, not pecentages.

Anyway aparantly there are 100,000 members of Mensa in the world and it is a World wide organisation not just each country treated seperately.

Also, the average IQ has been going up by 3 points every 10 years and it is estimated that a third of the current members would not score high enough to be accepted into Mensa today.

And this is my favourite quote:
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Rough number is you have to be the 133,945,081st smartest person in the world to get in.
 
PMKeates said:
The typical IQ has been pretty close to 100 for some time.
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Of course it is. 100 is the average IQ of the current popolution so will always be 100.

What I meant is that somebody who in 2000 would have scored 100 and hence be spot on the average would only have scored 97 today.

The "collective" intelligence of the population increases as years go by but Mensa has never increased the minimum score required to enter.

Hence somebody who say joined Mensa 50 years ago with an IQ of 132 and be in the top 2% then might only score 117 today and be in the top 5 or 10% only and hence would never get into Mensa.
 
I decided there was no point paying the membership, didnt seem worthwhile to be. Didnt think it would make all that much difference on my cv
 
Repta said:
I decided there was no point paying the membership, didnt seem worthwhile to be. Didnt think it would make all that much difference on my cv
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All I can imagine is when they're comparing two candidates and they say "Well, this one reads" (thanks Michael McIntyre :rolleyes), "but this one's in Mensa" :p
 
Greebo said:
Of course it is. 100 is the average IQ of the current popolution so will always be 100.

What I meant is that somebody who in 2000 would have scored 100 and hence be spot on the average would only have scored 97 today.

The "collective" intelligence of the population increases as years go by but Mensa has never increased the minimum score required to enter.

Hence somebody who say joined Mensa 50 years ago with an IQ of 132 and be in the top 2% then might only score 117 today and be in the top 5 or 10% only and hence would never get into Mensa.
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Why would they change the minimum score required to enter? when it should always represent the top 2%?
They need re-testing, the score is already a balanced revised system.
 
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