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Any MENSA members here?
steeltoe1978
Member Posts: 3,248
Just wondering...
(I'm one.)
(I'm one.)
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I scored 3 points shy on the test. [B)] Apparently they take those tests results pretty seriously. But in my own defense I had to wizz really bad while I was taking it.
Well, I'd still vote for you over hillary and/or obama. [:D]
I'm smart enough to NOT tell that to anyone here....
Damn it. If I recall, you don't live in the USA. You are the Mag-Lite flashlight suppressor man! Yes, you ARE smart for living where you can have fun toys! I just might be your neighbor after this election! [:D]
quote:Originally posted by sav99
I scored 3 points shy on the test. [B)] Apparently they take those tests results pretty seriously. But in my own defense I had to wizz really bad while I was taking it.
Well, I'd still vote for you over hillary and/or obama. [:D]
Sav99 in '08 [:D]
I also answered question number three on the entrance exam with "Antidisestablishmentarianism" and the correct response was supposed to be "Orange".
Alas, I was disqualified due to insufficient idiosyncracies.
I also answered question number three on the entrance exam with "Antidisestablishmentarianism" and the correct response was supposed to be "Orange".
Somebody calling me?
Reminded me of one of my favorite Peanuts cartoons:
"I know! I know! The answer lies in the heart of all mankind.
The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong room."
I thought they just gave you a standard IQ test with a minimum score required?
Anybody know what the minimum is?
Anyone? Anyone? steeltoe1978?
Just wondering...
(I'm one.)
well, at least you all are a modest bunch. [8D]
[:D]
quote:Originally posted by LaidbackDan
Alas, I was disqualified due to insufficient idiosyncracies.
I also answered question number three on the entrance exam with "Antidisestablishmentarianism" and the correct response was supposed to be "Orange".
Somebody calling me?
Reminded me of one of my favorite Peanuts cartoons:
"I know! I know! The answer lies in the heart of all mankind.
The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong room."
I thought they just gave you a standard IQ test with a minimum score required?
Anybody know what the minimum is?
Anyone? Anyone? steeltoe1978?
132 as I recall.
132 as I recall.
Missed it by that much.
XXXXXX
Is that the club women belong to and get together once a month ?
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No, that's "MENSTRA"...lol
The house had gas logs in the fireplace. We told her not to light the logs unless the damper was open. We showed her how to open the damper, it was a chain that you pulled down, and it would catch in a little clip on the front right side of the fireplace. We told her that to burn the fireplace with the damper closed would risk death by carbon monoxide poisoning.
This attorney was going to move out and my girlfriend went over to inspect the house. The living and dining rooms were covered with a layer of soot!
The genius told my girlfriend that she didn't want to lose money in heat going up the fireplace, so she had been burning the fireplace with the damper closed!
I had to repaint the entire living room and dining room. What a miracle that we didn't wind up with a corpse in that house, and guess who her lawyer buddies would have sued?
Before the next tenant moved in, I climbed up on the roof, and blocked the damper open with a brick. It was a cast aluminum chimneytop damper. This meant that every day of the winter, the new tenant would have heat funnelling right out the open chimney and into the sky. But, at least, they couldn't kill themselves and soot up our house.
Our Mensa tenant was so smart she was stupid.
But I am not saying they all are, steeltoe I am sure you have plenty of common sense.
quote:The society welcomes people from every walk of life whose IQ is in the top 2% of the population,
quote:The term "IQ score" is widely used but poorly defined. There are a large number of tests with different scales. The result on one test of 132 can be the same as a score 148 on another test. Some intelligence tests don't use IQ scores at all. Mensa has set a percentile as cutoff to avoid this confusion. Candidates for membership in Mensa must achieve a score at or above the 98th percentile on a standard test of intelligence (a score that is greater than or equal to that achieved by 98 percent of the general population taking the test).
I attended a couple of Mensa parties some years ago. Talk about a bunch of social incompetents. Some of those folks were flat strange, I mean make Dano II look normal strange. I declined the test.
I've noticed the same condition. Its puzzling how that works. Great intellect in lieu of social aptitude.
quote:Originally posted by HappyNanoq
I'm smart enough to NOT tell that to anyone here....
Damn it. If I recall, you don't live in the USA. You are the Mag-Lite flashlight suppressor man! Yes, you ARE smart for living where you can have fun toys! I just might be your neighbor after this election! [:D]
Yup : http://www.happynanoq.dk/maglitesilencer/
Two of my majors were Sociology and Psychology so you know I am not the most average guy at any party, but some of those folks were in the ozone. Perhaps the orginal geeks. Naturally I mean that in the nicest possible way.
You ever notice when somebody says something which can't be taken in a nice way, they say "I didn't mean that in a bad way."?
I had an Executive Officer who looked me in the eye and said "Jim, you're the hardest headed son-of-a-* I've ever met ? ? ? ? I didn't mean that in a bad way." I took it as a complement, but then I'm not a member of MENSA. [:D]
Two of my majors were Sociology and Psychology so you know I am not the most average guy at any party, but some of those folks were in the ozone. Perhaps the orginal geeks. Naturally I mean that in the nicest possible way.
Hey, my majors are Counseling/Psychology and Sociology. Whatd'ya know about that. [^]
http://www.mensa-test.com/
American murderer George Trepal got the nickname "the Mensa murderer" for his membership in the high-IQ society. Exactly whom did he poison?
His neighbors. The ultimate meddling neighbor, Florida genius and Death Row resident George Trepal was convicted of the murder of his neighbor Peggy Carr. George had placed some Coke bottles laced with the poison thallium nitrite in the Carr residence; the entire family became ill, but unlucky Peggy died. The reason? The Carrs made too much noise. Much was made of the fact that the bespectacled man was a member of Mensa and dubbed him "the Mensa murderer". (I was a member of Mensa at the time also, and can attest that we did not find this amusing). Apparently he drew suspicion to himself when, as the organizer of a Mensa "murder weekend", he made some sort of statement that neighbors should be careful of what they eat around their household. This suspicious statement led police to the proverbial smoking gun, in the form of a vial containing traces of thallium in Trepal's garbage.
I saw a show on this case on tv. What this story fails to mention is that the cops had infiltrated an undercover policewoman into Mensa. She was good looking, and Trepal was hitting on her, and it was her clandestine recordings of Trepal's remarks at the Mensa "Murder Weekend" that led to his conviction.
http://www.happynanoq.dk/maglitesilencer/
And there I thought you had invented sumthin to make Maglites quiet.
As for Mensa, I'm pretty sure I'm in the top 98% of the population, which means that I'm smarter than 96% of Mensa members.
who cares how dam smart you are...im dumb as a stick and proud of it[:D][:D]
Hey! I'm dumb as a stick. Think of something else to be as dumb as! [:(!]
Maybe you could be dumb as mud or somethin.
But anyone with as many ex-wives as me is skittish about rejection, anyway.