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	jaythenerdkid 2010-08-18 02:38 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, their minimum intake is that low? ...I could get into MENSA if that's all they require. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

white_tean
2010-08-18 02:56 pm UTC (link)

Whoops, sorry, I think you replied to my comment which I deleted and reposted below; I have previously been tested in the top 2%, and I cannot even remember that I'm using firefox and not chrome, and that therefore I'll have to actually re-read my comments for typos in order not to sound like an idiot when making a point about intelligence.

Seriously, I hope no one labelled a genius would ever be classed with me.

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	jaythenerdkid 2010-08-18 03:14 pm UTC (link)
	Actually, the bit that I was responding to doesn't seem to have changed - I was expressing amazement that 130-140 is the minimum IQ level for MENSA applicants. I always knew that that was a good IQ range, I was just surprised that it was a MENSA-level one. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tetradecimal 2010-08-18 03:36 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, I could get in, too. But what would we talk about? I mean, besides Cathy and being excluded. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jaythenerdkid 2010-08-18 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	How surprised we are that we could get in? :P (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tetradecimal 2010-08-18 03:50 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe the meetings are kind of like dinner parties where the people on one end are old money and the people on the other are over-excitable new money who just discovered their Mensa-ness and there's silent judging. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jaythenerdkid 2010-08-18 03:52 pm UTC (link)
	Is it bad that my first thought was, "Meh, sounds like the way my family judge people all the time, I can deal"? :P (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tetradecimal 2010-08-18 03:55 pm UTC (link)
	judges (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jaythenerdkid 2010-08-18 03:58 pm UTC (link)
	Help, help, I'm being oppressed! Come see the violence inherent in MENSA! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2010-08-18 08:59 pm UTC (link)
	oh HELL yes. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	evilsqueakers 2010-08-18 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	So...basically a fancy dinner with Emily Gilmore? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	queencallipygos 2010-08-18 03:38 pm UTC (link)
	It actually depends what IQ score you take. Actually, here's a list of all the different scores on different tests they accept. I got in on the basis of my SAT scores (if you got a 1250 combined score on your SATs before 1994, that's good enough). They kind of prefer to administer their own test, though. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

jaythenerdkid
2010-08-18 03:44 pm UTC (link)

Thanks for the list, but none of that is particularly useful to me; I'm Australian, and bizarrely, their Australian site simply refuses to load.

In any case, I'm not interested in joining (though I was when I was a teenager; I thought it'd be the coolest thing ever), even if my IQ is high enough; I just found it interesting that my IQ apparently is high enough. :P

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	queencallipygos 2010-08-18 04:19 pm UTC (link)
	No, I hear ya. I got kind of bored with it after only a couple years anyway. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mmanurere 2010-08-18 09:54 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, "their own test"...I remember when someone posted a few questions from the Mensa test (pattern-recognition section, maybe?) and had fun coming up with at least one perfectly-valid reason that each possible answer could be described as correct. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	txvoodoo 2010-08-20 04:34 am UTC (link)
	Well, shit. I qualify with at least 3 measurements there. But I'm pretty sure I'm smart enough to be able to figure out which groups are full of asshats, so therefore, I'll abstain ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	snarkhunter 2010-08-23 06:07 pm UTC (link)
	My therapist suggested that I join MENSA to help meet new people and make new friends in town. I believe I made this face: D:< (Other, more recent suggestions from therapist: rent a room in a house as a way to reduce isolation [NO. I LIKE living alone]; change diet to minimize risk of autoimmune diseases. I probably need a new therapist.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	queencallipygos 2010-08-18 03:40 pm UTC (link)
	But, yeah, I feel you on the "that's all it takes? REALLY?" reaction - that's the reaction I had when I took a look at the "alternate scores" page and saw, to my great shock, that my SATs were good enough. It sent me into a two-minute giggle fit because the idea of me being MENSA material was just thoroughly ridiculous. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sgaana 2010-08-19 02:48 am UTC (link)
	Same here. I read that and went, "... seriously?" Because at the time, I considered my SAT scores to be a tad on the low side. (The math part killed me.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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