It's more that every expects you to do something brilliant. If you do something that seems impressive you would probably get well it's no surprise you are a genius.
Poll: Mensa
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It's more that every expects you to do something brilliant. If you do something that seems impressive you would probably get well it's no surprise you are a genius.
I did read somewhere that the average uni graduates IQ was around the 130 mark, not sure with Labours policy of getting the world and its cat to go into further education that this still holds. However I would hazard a bet that we have a high proportion of uni graduates on this board and that the IQ will be very different from the normal distribution.
Having said that, including the people that claim to be members I do find it very hard to believe that the skew would be that great that we have 35% of the board in the top 2% of the worlds IQ.
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No one's saying that. Mensa doesn't equal like minded either, this is the issue, people are wrongly confusing the fact that IQ and intelligence are the very same thing.
To have a club that focuses on the premise that all its members are geniuses, and that because of that, are like minded, is quite a wrong assumption.
Intelligence covers such a large range of things that you can't say two (or more) people are like minded based solely on the assertion that they are intelligent.
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I recall being asked via a text message if you had to pay to take the Mensa test by a lad in my class. You know, one of those loaded questions people ask to thinly veil boasting. When I replied that I had no idea, he then sent a follow up text informing me that he'd been invited to take it you see, even though I didn't enquire as to why he asked in the first place.
I was rather amused when he then went on to fail a few of our HNC exams, some rather miserably.
I was rather amused when he then went on to fail a few of our HNC exams, some rather miserably.
You do realise that the club is not just a big meet up, they have various sub groups just like these forums where people can go and interact with like minded individuals.
It's a bit of a shame if you feel you have to dumb yourself down for people. I think people as a whole are reasonably smart anyway. I can't imagine anyone having to dumb down their opinions save for being to the point... and rarely does anyone dumb down their tastes
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I liked the membership card next to the description of "our THICKEST sliced bread".
Just for fun, I did the Mensa Workout and of the 24 I managed to answer in time, I got 18 correct (75%). I haven't actually done one of these tests since my graduate application days but I think with a bit more practice I could get into Mensa*. It's not something that interests me though - I'm more inspired by the work I do and the people I work with. 
*I don't actually know how difficult the tests are in comparison so that may be optimistic.
*I don't actually know how difficult the tests are in comparison so that may be optimistic.
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