Are you a member of Mensa?

[Grouchyoldguy]

I am smat enough not to waste 30 mins. of my time on that.

 

[CrazyApe]

Your score was 28 out of 30. That is an excellent score, you would have a very strong chance of passing the Mensa test and joining Mensa.

 

[MetalMat]

Man I could not get the ones where you had to add a word or make a word out of scrambled letters. Besides that I did pretty good.

 

[Ilmater]

I got 26/30, but I missed that easy typist question. Too early.

 

[Siva]

I understand why some people don't like mensa, but what's with all the animosity against circle jerks?

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: Grouchyoldguy
I am smat enough not to waste 30 mins. of my time on that.

Originally posted by: DeMeo
I have met some very stupid people that are in mensa.
Seriously, they had some book smarts and were good at math problems, but no common sense at all and no people skills. If you can't apply brains to every day reall life, then what's the use.

Another poster made this argument and I countered, comment on that?

 

[shilala]

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: Perknose
And how many Mensa members - how many ATers even - can relate to the average joe, who watches reality TV, accesses the internet through AOL and has trouble tying his shoes?

I can. I can do it and enjoy it most times. I even answer incredibly stupid questions posed by incredibly retarded aolers (had a few this morning) in a respectful fashion.
I will admit that my first 35 years were pretty anti-social unless the other person was directly offering vagina, beer or knowledge.
I sport a 136 IQ and my math skills are teh suck. I'm confident enough in my mental abilities that I can type teh suck without offending my senses. I'm also bright enough to know that there are people out there who have the answers that I don't, and I can muster enough humility to ask them.
I'm a pretty diverse unit, and I'm okay with my merely average-sized penis.
I like long walks on the beach, too.

 

[Spamela]

Originally posted by: Perknose
I passed the Mensa test (from an ad in some magazine) when I was 12. I was attracted because the ad promised group discounts for members on a number of things. I did not join. For the record, I have NEVER known anyone who didn't pass that stupid test. I think it's a scam.

Secondly, over the years, I have met a number of actual members. Without exception, they were tedious social retards who, while they may or may not have a high IQ, lacked social and emotional intelligence lacking wisdom and insight and were bloated, boring, social bottom feeders whom any one of us would avoid like hell in any public setting.

Mensa sucks. Their members suck worse.

ouch. i used to be a member.

 

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: Perknose
Secondly, over the years, I have met a number of actual members. Without exception, they were tedious social retards who, while they may or may not have a high IQ, lacked social and emotional intelligence lacking wisdom and insight and were bloated, boring, social bottom feeders whom any one of us would avoid like hell in any public setting.

Have never been to a mensa function or anything, perhaps it'd change my more tolerant view of them. Did want to point out though that I think social & emotional "intelligence" is nothing more than a measure of how average someone is. What is being a people-person, really, but relating to people? And how many Mensa members - how many ATers even - can relate to the average joe, who watches reality TV, accesses the internet through AOL and has trouble tying his shoes?

The ability to interact with others on a daily basis in normal societal settings is not a measure of how "average" someone is. Humans are a social being, humans that cannot interact with other humans on a standard social level are lacking severely , regardless what their useless IQ is.

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: SampSon

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: Perknose
Secondly, over the years, I have met a number of actual members. Without exception, they were tedious social retards who, while they may or may not have a high IQ, lacked social and emotional intelligence lacking wisdom and insight and were bloated, boring, social bottom feeders whom any one of us would avoid like hell in any public setting.

Have never been to a mensa function or anything, perhaps it'd change my more tolerant view of them. Did want to point out though that I think social & emotional "intelligence" is nothing more than a measure of how average someone is. What is being a people-person, really, but relating to people? And how many Mensa members - how many ATers even - can relate to the average joe, who watches reality TV, accesses the internet through AOL and has trouble tying his shoes?

The ability to interact with others on a daily basis in normal societal settings is not a measure of how "average" someone is. Humans are a social being, humans that cannot interact with other humans on a standard social level are lacking severely , regardless what their useless IQ is.

Certainly there's more to it, but I think it's a large factor in why so many people with high IQs are socially inept. What's your take on that trend? Were it a different form of intelligence, wouldn't it stand to reason that those with higher IQs would also do better in social situations, rather than worse? I've read up on the idea of different aspects of intelligence and agree with it to some degree (Michael Jordans are born, not made), but disagree on social aptitude.

 

[sygyzy]

So being "tired" is everyone's excuse now for not being able to score high enough? LOL.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

27/30 while working. If I had more time...who knows.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Are you a member of Mensa?

No, but Major Sheppard passed the test!

Ha ha

thats was funny when McAkay ask him to join the group at Atlantis

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
So being "tired" is everyone's excuse now for not being able to score high enough? LOL.

Literal truth for me, I'd have been asleep ~2 hours before this was posted if I wasn't waiting for a file transfer to finish so I could shut down first.

 

[new2AMD]

24 out of 30 but I skipped 3 questions. Plus I made a huge mistake counting the 7's.

Skipped 15, 17, 19 and missed 1, 2 and 6

 

[KnickNut3]

26

 

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: SampSon

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: Perknose
Secondly, over the years, I have met a number of actual members. Without exception, they were tedious social retards who, while they may or may not have a high IQ, lacked social and emotional intelligence lacking wisdom and insight and were bloated, boring, social bottom feeders whom any one of us would avoid like hell in any public setting.

Have never been to a mensa function or anything, perhaps it'd change my more tolerant view of them. Did want to point out though that I think social & emotional "intelligence" is nothing more than a measure of how average someone is. What is being a people-person, really, but relating to people? And how many Mensa members - how many ATers even - can relate to the average joe, who watches reality TV, accesses the internet through AOL and has trouble tying his shoes?

The ability to interact with others on a daily basis in normal societal settings is not a measure of how "average" someone is. Humans are a social being, humans that cannot interact with other humans on a standard social level are lacking severely , regardless what their useless IQ is.

Certainly there's more to it, but I think it's a large factor in why so many people with high IQs are socially inept. What's your take on that trend? Were it a different form of intelligence, wouldn't it stand to reason that those with higher IQs would also do better in social situations, rather than worse? I've read up on the idea of different aspects of intelligence and agree with it to some degree (Michael Jordans are born, not made), but disagree on social aptitude.

I don't remember much from my days in sociology and psychology classes.
People who have high IQs have inherantly unbalanced brains. In past societies a human that was extremely smart but could not interact with others in that society would have have survived long. Sociability could be grouped with survival instincts.

IQ is really a poor way to measure intelligence. It's a great way to measure how someone reasons through a useless test though.

 

[GMElias]

doh 23/30, but I missed some that were easy and I figured out correctly, and then filled in the wrong answer....I took about 18 minutes, so I should have used my time to check

-Elias

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: SampSon
I don't remember much from my days in sociology and psychology classes.
People who have high IQs have inherantly unbalanced brains. In past societies a human that was extremely smart but could not interact with others in that society would have have survived long. Sociability could be grouped with survival instincts.

IQ is really a poor way to measure intelligence. It's a great way to measure how someone reasons through a useless test though.

Suggesting high IQ means imbalance is saying that we're all created equal... a nice ideal, for sure - but untrue. Agreed about survival though; for most humans, the instinct to highly value normality and put down anyone even slightly different seems extraordinarily strong. I've said it before, I think IQ is a lot like CPU clock speed - it's not everything, but it is a good indicator of general capability.

 

[RaDragon]

I'm just a simpleton and I'm perfectly fine with that