Join an Elitist Club! Mensa!

DrLeopoldStrabismusDrLeopoldStrabismus
edited October 2007 in General
Who wants to join Mensa?
Taken from the Mensa site
Saturday, Oct. 20, is American Mensa's tenth annual Mensa Testing Day. The test fee is $40, and a photo ID is required. The test is open to any person age 14 and older, but parental permission is required for anyone age 14-17.

http://www.us.mensa.org/Content/AML/NavigationMenu/Events/MensaTestingDay/Mensa_Testing_Day.htm

Who's with me? I'll try to get to Pensacola here in Florida and take the test. Then we can lord over other people how smart we are (based on the results of a test created and administered by humans)!

Comments

  • mariomario
    edited October 2007
    Let's make litter out of these literati!
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited October 2007
    I've passed all of their old tests, online. Is it worth $40, though? Do I get a card to show people who doubt that I'm smarter than they are?

    EDIT: Screw it. Even if it was worth the $40, it sure as hell ain't worth driving into the city.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited October 2007
    Nuts to that! I don't have $40 and the testing location nearest me tested yesterday. I like others doubt the $40 value.
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited October 2007
    Why pay some organization $40 to tell people you're smart when you can tell everyone you know how smart you are for free! The very fact that you're doing it for free should further prove how smart you are!
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited October 2007
    I see no flaws in your logic. I would know, I'm smart.
  • Amoeba BoyAmoeba Boy
    edited October 2007
    I dunno Behemoth, do you have some sort of card to prove your intelligence?
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited October 2007
    No way. I'd have to pay to get the card. I'm telling you for free, that proves how smart I am.
  • DrLeopoldStrabismusDrLeopoldStrabismus
    edited October 2007
    Well the $40 is the administration fee for Mensa's IQ test. If you already have had an IQ test and scored in the top 98 percentile, you can send them an authorized copy of those results and get in that way.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited October 2007
    I don't need a card to tell people I'm smart. I don't even need to tell them I'm smart. They tell me. That's free as well. Personally, I don't believe them anyway. Intelligence is too complicated to put a value on and have it mean much. If there's anything I've come to know it's that the more you know the more you know that you don't know.
  • DrLeopoldStrabismusDrLeopoldStrabismus
    edited October 2007
    It's really not about a card. I think it would benefit me to become part of an organization with monthly meetings and be surrounded by smart people, because God knows I'm not the best when it comes to motivating myself to do something great. The "lording your smartness over dumb folks" was me just being a dick-ass.
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited October 2007
    Being a dick-ass sounds painful.
  • DrLeopoldStrabismusDrLeopoldStrabismus
    edited October 2007
    Ass means donkey.
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited October 2007
    ...and dick?
    XoLore wrote: »
    I don't need a card to tell people I'm smart. I don't even need to tell them I'm smart. They tell me. That's free as well. Personally, I don't believe them anyway. Intelligence is too complicated to put a value on and have it mean much. If there's anything I've come to know it's that the more you know the more you know that you don't know.

    Actually, there are several great ways to measure intelligence. IQ only measures (about) one-third of intelligence. Most people seem to assume that IQ is either the measure of all intelligence or the only measure of intelligence. Sternberg created a wonderfully comprehensive test to measure all 9 (12) types of intelligence, not counting moral intelligence, of course. Personally, i feel moral intelligence is the ultimate measure of a person's over-all intelligence. When people believe you can create solid laws that can be applied to all crimes based on a few defining characteristics of that crime, they generally have a rather low moral intelligence (i.e. what's right is right, what's wrong is wrong, and that's all there is to it, so if something can be described using a word that is good or bad, the action falls under the corresponding category). This is the majority of the population, and this is to what the majority of politicians must pander.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited October 2007
    Behemoth wrote: »
    ...and dick?
    Apparently, John the Filleau is in reality a donkey named Richard.
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited October 2007
    Even though it will probably make my head hurt immensely, I may do this.

    http://www.mensa.org/workout2.php?

    I only got 20/30 and they said I have a very good chance of doing well on the MENSA test, and my head already hurts, just from that.
  • mariomario
    edited October 2007
    Detective Donkey!
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited October 2007
    untitled-1.jpg

    I think I've seen a couple of them before, though. or at least, the same types of questions.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited October 2007
    25. Wow. That's a crappy score for me. I really shouldn't have slacked off and skipped all those questions. I hate word puzzles so much. I blame High School. I have my reasons.
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited October 2007
    I couldn't get that one that you were supposed to make from insatiable. I've never even heard that word before.
  • kukopankikukopanki
    edited October 2007
    Banalities? Psst... it's things without importance. Even though I knew the word ,I couldn't make it out neither.
  • Mish42Mish42
    edited October 2007
    I got 20 out of 30, but I wasnt keeping track of time. I was talking on AIM while taking the test, so who knows...

    I hate word puzzles though. My vocabulary sucks, sadly, and I've never really been able to unscramble words. Just doesn't work in my mind! I'm a math person, not a grammar person. Oh well... at least I got most of the ones I answered right!

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