Anyone here part of Mensa?

I've got a friend who was a member of Mensa. He graduated from Harvard with a Russian Lingustics major (he spoke 5-6 languages fluently), used to work in Japan, got his MBA for fun and could answer every question on Jeopardy without blinking.

Not exactly the hippest guy I know, but even he said that Mensa members were the biggest dorks he'd ever met.. He flat out refused to go to any more meetings. I guess it's good on a resume, but not much else.

 

Bruce is a Mensa member... Bruce, where are you...?

 

I thought if you have a high enough IQ, you are automatically a member

 

My daughter forwarded me a Mensa quiz and after taking the quiz, it said I might qualify. I'm not interested, but here's the link to the test. I believe the test must be completed in 30 minutes. I got 23 correct, but I did the stuff in my head and took around 21 minutes (Had better things to do that day) Good Luck.

http://www.mensa.org/index0.php?page=12&PHPSESSID=1725065dd12f1d8845bf64c2b800b06f

 

I cant do it now, it was a long day of school.

But my sophomore year latin teacher was in mensa, one of the elite members if i recall correctly. What a smart guy, witty as well.

 

I COULDNT PASS THE "EUBONICS" TEST SO THEY DROPPED ME OUT OF MENSA

RE-TAKING THE TEST NEXT YEAR...

 

I took the test in college and went to join. One meeting was all it took to convince me that I didn't fit in. Mostly guys who had a difficult time actually living in the real world sitting around trying to "out-smart" each other. Maybe it was just this one group, but I've never had the urge to investigate further.

One of the smartest guys I know dropped out of high school and works at a book store. Another one I know, similarly intelligent, runs the biggest (or maybe the second biggest right now) company in the world.

Bill

 

I passed the test about 15 years ago and quickly realised I'd joined the wrong group. Went to a meeting and the subject of discussion was why trees grew vertically instead of horizontally

I made my excuses, left and ran as fast as I could!

 

i took the aforeposted test. i took all 30 mins and only got 22 right, because it seems that i am not very good at word games

thats failing, 73%

oh and i used a little piece of scratch paper, and a calcualtor for simple subtraction (because im not that good at it - despite studying engineering)

 

You are eligible if you pass their test or get a certified IQ test score that passes (I think 135) or have the threshold SAT scores. I believe they charge a fee, so just being eligible doesn't get you in.

Having said that, I know huge numbers of people that could get in and none would want to. Without intending to be disrespectful, these are people whose dominant motivation in joining is to be recognized for their IQ or be associated with certain people with a threshold IQ. That's too one-dimensional for most people to find enjoyable.

There are even harder IQ societies to get into (http://www.polymath-systems.com/intel/hiqsocs/hiqsocs1.html) and the groups/people tend to get really wierd at the 4 or 5 sigma level (IQ's of 160-190). FWIW, I knew someone who got his PhD at the age of 17 or 18 from Caltech in Math with a purported IQ in the 170-180 range. For someone who had such a "promising" start, he never did much with his life (tax preparer, network engineer the last I saw).

 

Your score was 7 out of 30. If you had a bad day, try again.

 

why do they talk about the SAT scores. they cannot judge anything except how well you can do on that test

 

I think those word games are stupid. All of the rest at least have some sort of logical reasoning behind them. Unscrambling words just means you have that word in your vocabulary and you stared at it long enough to get the answer. Don't feel bad for missing those

 

My wife got 21 and it said she did very well and might qualify for Mensa. Hmmm 70% and she's a genius, but she already knew that.

 

A bit of trivia here: Sharon Stone is a member with an IQ of 154.

 

Holy crap, Mark, that can't be possible, you know, like, everything...! i skipped a bunch of questions and still scored a 15 in about 13 minutes... Go try again, dude, there's no way you can't ace most of that crap...

 

I didn't actually read the questions, I just chose answers that felt right.... still disappointed how my psychic powers let me down.

 

Ok, I got a 23/30 too. Also states I would "likely pass the mensa test." Ps, I did it in between seeing patients, but it likely took less than 20 minutes - who knows.

Some of those puzzles are rather fun, and its not something I regularly do. I suspect that if one were into gaming/puzzles/crosswords - a much higher score is easily attainable. I missed many of the number patterns...

Alright, what other scores we got here?? Don't worry, you folks with perfect 30's won't hurt my feelings. I am too stooopid to be bothered .

 

18, but I skipped 3 of the word questions out of frustration. For someone who nearly got a perfect verbal score on the SAT (and completely bombed the math section) this wasn't the outcome I had expected. The numbers and patterns were the easy part.

 

27/30. that was fun. where can i get more?

 

yeah i joined mensa a few years ago. it's not based on IQ specifically it's on percentile, you have to be in the 98th percentile on a couple intelligence tests or something. in other words the "top" 2%, or 1 in 50 people. they didn't give me an IQ score, it just listed my percentile rating as being 99+, whatever that means.

yep. there's a few decent folk but for the most part the meetings were useless, i mean what... you get together to talk about how intelligent you are? i stopped going years ago, prefer my car clubs.

 

Same here. And, same here.

 

There are lots of different types of intellect. The mensa tests really looks for pattern recognition, it seems.

ACT/SAT are memorization and rote practice - thats about it. But then passing the medical boards, law boards, etc - is just that.

When you are in the presence of someone who is truly a genius - you know it. I have had several friends like this. I was both awe-inspired, and jealous. What they all had in common were superior MEMORIES. If you don't have to look at something 10 times to learn it, you have an aweful lot of time left to do other mental m*sturbation exersizes....

Some of my colleagues in medical school read a text book ONCE, and they just "got it." My roomate at the time, who was my age, 1st year medical school, was PUBLISHING a neurosurgical textbook. You know, the stuff honest to god neurosurgeon's use as a reference. I was busy trying to figure out if I "really" needed to read all these books...looking for the cliff notes version. Studying flash cards, etc. My buddy was studying foreign languages "in his spare time"- "Just for fun." Uh, yeah.

If you are trully a genius, you don't need a test to tell you so...