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04 Feb 2006, 7:10 pm

Hi -
Was just wondering if anyone was in mensa (or wanted to admit to it).
I'm thinking about doing the test, as it seems like an interesting thing to do, and offers possible social opportunities. Wondering though they're probably mainly NT, perhaps there'd be an overrepresentation of spectrum people there?
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04 Feb 2006, 7:49 pm

earplugsaremylifeline wrote:

if i wanted to, i could have joined mensa (I meet the entrance requirements). I don't see the point.

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04 Feb 2006, 7:59 pm

alex wrote:

earplugsaremylifeline wrote:

if i wanted to, i could have joined mensa (I meet the entrance requirements). I don't see the point.

Same here and my father and grandfather

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04 Feb 2006, 9:05 pm

alex wrote:

earplugsaremylifeline wrote:

if i wanted to, i could have joined mensa (I meet the entrance requirements). I don't see the point.

Ditto.

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04 Feb 2006, 9:08 pm

Bragging rights, of course. And it looks really good on a job or college application.

For me, it would be like a challenge, just to see whether I am capable of getting in. I have not yet attempted it, though; I think getting the required IQ test takes a lot of money.

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04 Feb 2006, 9:27 pm

If you are over 14, the Mensa admission IQ test costs $30 in the U.S.

http://www.us.mensa.org/Content/AML/Nav ... urTest.htm

If you are 14 or younger, then you may join only with "prior evidence" of an IQ in the top 2% of the population. You may use "prior evidence" if you are over 14 as well.

Some Qualifying Test Scores for Admission to Mensa

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04 Feb 2006, 9:46 pm

Callista wrote:

Bragging rights, of course. And it looks really good on a job or college application.

It'd also look bad to some employers who agree with me.

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05 Feb 2006, 12:35 am

alex wrote:

if i wanted to, i could have joined mensa (I meet the entrance requirements). I don't see the point.

Me too. What is the point, anyway? No one could satisfactorily explain it to me.

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05 Feb 2006, 3:25 am

I wonder how many people are in the 97th percentile of intelligence and aren't allowed in?

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05 Feb 2006, 4:23 am

dexkaden wrote:

alex wrote:

if i wanted to, i could have joined mensa (I meet the entrance requirements). I don't see the point.

Me too. What is the point, anyway? No one could satisfactorily explain it to me.

We're getting a consensus here. I qualify, and went as a guest to a few Mensa meetings.
I didn't feel sufficiently inspired to join, though I would suspect a higher than average AS representation.

"Mensa: where eggheads go to get laid."

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05 Feb 2006, 4:29 am

earplugsaremylifeline wrote:

Not the I mean I'd definitely get in. Just a sort of a challenge.
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05 Feb 2006, 5:17 am

When I was doing my teacher's training in the early 90's there was a lot of controversy about Mensa being a fascist organisation - but the college was very left wing in its thinking so it may have been a reaction to elitism.

IIRC in '94 (or '95, can't be bothered to google it) a Californian Mensa group published a newsletter which suggested people with low IQs should be sterilised.

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05 Feb 2006, 8:07 am

I don't see the point. Is there any common ground other than you happen to score well on IQ tests?

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05 Feb 2006, 11:18 am

For the Wechsler, is approx. 130+ the top 2%? I always assumed it was higher than that but the last psychologist who tested me said it was around there. Or at least I tested my worst score ever at 132 and he said I was still in the top 2%. (I'm getting dumber with age.)

Anyone else know?

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05 Feb 2006, 1:00 pm

so why should I pay £40 a month to be able to form special interest groups, when I can easily find people in real life who will do the same for FREE. And buy me beer to go with it XD

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05 Feb 2006, 1:06 pm

Sophist wrote:

This is a clickable link to more information.

American MENSA Website wrote:

Tests commonly administered by school districts

California Test of Cognitive Skills IQ 132

Differential Ability Scales (DAS) GCA 132

Otis-Lennon Tests IQ 132

Otis-Gamma Test IQ 131

Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT) Individual and Multilevel Forms Ability Index Score of 130 or above

Stanford Binet IQ 132

Stanford Binet 5 IQ 130

Tests administered by private psychologists

California Test of Mental Maturity (CTMM) IQ 132

Cattell IQ 148

Differential Ability Scales (DAS) GCA 132

Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales IQ 132

Stanford Binet IQ 132

Stanford Binet 5 IQ 132
Wechsler Adult and Children Scales IQ 130
(WAIS and WAIS-R, WISC, WISC-R,
WISC-III, WISC-4th Edition)
Note: Short form not accepted

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