08-06-2003, 07:08 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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Location: South Ca'lina
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any MENSA members out there?
I've been considering the whole MENSA thing. I went online, took their little online test, and so now I'm thinking about taking the next step. For the at-home practice test, it's $18.00. Then, there's another charge to take the real-deal test. Here's my quandary: I did pretty good at the online test. But, was that rigged just to get me to spend $18.00 and find out I really have no chance? Or, should I quit being such a penny-pincher and try the practice test?
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08-06-2003, 04:06 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Location: Gastonia NC
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I'm not sure I'd ever want to be a member of MENSA. I've been told I'm smart, and I usually do well in IQ tests, but I think a club for smart people is just a bit of a snobby idea
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08-06-2003, 04:15 PM | #4 (permalink) | |
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Re: any MENSA members out there?
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Or Maybe you already qualify via prior testing: http://www.us.mensa.org/join_mensa/priorevidence.php3 |
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08-06-2003, 04:45 PM | #5 (permalink) |
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if you were a member you'd be in the same club that Asia Carrera is in.
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08-06-2003, 04:48 PM | #6 (permalink) | |
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seriously (on a slight tangent) she's actually one of the few pornstars I'd want to have a face to face conversation with, as she seems smart and funny. Her and Ron Jeremy |
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08-06-2003, 04:55 PM | #8 (permalink) |
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you still have to make it in life...
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08-06-2003, 05:38 PM | #9 (permalink) | |
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08-06-2003, 05:46 PM | #10 (permalink) |
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I got in based on my GRE scores, so I didn't have to pay to take the test.
I was in it for like 2 years but I was never really an active member. I met some nice enough people but to be perfectly honest, they were a little boring. It could just be the people in our chapter. Some of the other chapters look like they have interesting committees and topic groups. But really, this one was mostly people who are really smart but with no social skills, like the nerdy guy in college who was even smarter than you but who was a little bitter and contemptuous and completely socially inept except when he was going on and on about his newest idea for a role playing game based on the battle of Waterloo. And really, who are you going to brag to? Any of my friends who would care already know I'm smart, and it's not the kind of thing I would really say to most other folks just to toot my own horn. Save your dues. Or join for just one year so you can have the membership card and whip it out to impress people.
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08-06-2003, 06:55 PM | #11 (permalink) |
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Anyone smart enough to get into MENSA is also bright enough to avoid paying for it. Seriously, the whole thing is funded by less-than-brilliant people paying money to try to get in. If you pay for the test you are immediately disqualified.
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08-07-2003, 05:12 AM | #14 (permalink) |
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Lurkette, thank you for the practical help. I love the idea of just getting the card, and then quitting! I think I'll just make a fake one, then I don't have to pay a dime!
Well, I thought it would something cool to get into, but I did have the fear that it would be a bunch of smart wallflowers. Aw, who am I kidding - I just want to meet Geena Davis!!!
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08-07-2003, 05:41 AM | #15 (permalink) | |
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08-07-2003, 08:13 AM | #18 (permalink) |
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Location: Gastonia NC
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personally, I think anyone who needs a certificate or a card to tell them they're smart is lacking in other areas. I'm certainly not dumb, I have a master's degree and I've written three plays, but I get my satisfaction from other areas of my life than just my brains.
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08-07-2003, 08:36 AM | #21 (permalink) |
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yeah, mensa never seemed very appealing to me either. it just seems way to snobby.
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08-07-2003, 06:02 PM | #24 (permalink) |
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I only have one thing to say...
"Mensa" in Spanish is the literal feminine form of "stupid" And I'm not joking. Click here, select "Spanish to English", and type in "mensa". I doubt if it is a mere coincidence
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04-06-2006, 07:00 AM | #25 (permalink) |
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Location: India
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real old topic...thought it was better o post in this rather than make a new one
i got through themensa exam quite easily the enterance test was just selecting what came next in a series of figures...about 100 of those in 25 minutes divided into sections of 2-4 minutes each my main motivation of joining mensa was to add it to my resume and to make sure there were a group of people to whom i was connected to in a leet sort of way no matter where i went on earth i heard that even Trump was impressed with one of the contenders of 'the apprentice' when he learnt that he was in Mensa The activies of the Mensa group here are quite boring for me tho....stuff like discussing politiks and bird watching So are there ay new mensa members here in the 2.5 years this topic was forgotten?
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04-06-2006, 07:31 AM | #26 (permalink) | |
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04-06-2006, 11:52 AM | #27 (permalink) | |
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I'm pretty sure I qualify, although I'm not 100% on that. I never looked into it; the whole thing just seems way too pretentious for my liking.
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04-07-2006, 09:16 AM | #28 (permalink) |
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At one point i wanted to take the mensa test, but i fear i have killed too many brain cells now to make it worth my while.
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I was a member when I was younger....back in the days before the internet lol (and because my mother thought it would be good for me to list it on a resume) I've never met a more boring group of people in my life. Maybe at the time it was just because I was young...but they didnt interest me at all.
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In short.....donate the 18 bucks you would spend on the test to the tfp fund and have a lot more fun!!!
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04-07-2006, 09:42 AM | #31 (permalink) |
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i'm a dork
I have trouble talking to people i don't know - i'm entirely too stupid to ever join mensa... I'm pretty much screwed then, eh? (wasn't it groucho who said, that he'd never join any club that would have me as a member.. yeah - goes for me too
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04-07-2006, 12:35 PM | #32 (permalink) |
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at least you're honest about it..
80% of people think they're in the 90th percentile or higher when it comes to intelligence. I have honestly no respect for someone who hasn't taken the test and still "knows" they'd pass.
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04-07-2006, 01:08 PM | #33 (permalink) | |
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04-07-2006, 01:11 PM | #34 (permalink) |
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I qualified by my ACT score (they no longer take the ACT but they did for my dates) and my GRE score. The ACT for me was long enough ago there is no perminent record, same with the GRE.
I'm to lazy to ever test again for it, but I do wish I would have done it when I had the chance. Not because I wanted to hang out at Mensa parties but because the metion of Mensa has some magical effect on stupid people who are impressed by this sort of thing.
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04-07-2006, 02:46 PM | #36 (permalink) |
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Location: Olympic Peninsula, WA
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I joined pbk because my husband thought it prestigious (his boss flaunted his membership). Phi Beta Kappa is only a measure based upon your gpa which says absolutely nothing about real world competence. It seems very similar to the Mensa measure of IQ. It's a nice little trophy that essentially means little about the whole person.
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04-08-2006, 12:43 PM | #37 (permalink) |
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Don't think I'd join...
I've never looked at the test and am not trying to attest to my intelligence, but am saying that if I had the "opportunity," I certainly wouldn't pay for it. If it were bestowed free, I might attend a meeting just to see what it's like.
But a picture like the one displayed on its homepage tells me that they're in it for the cash, trying to sell the image of "cool" to those who, typically, aren't. In any case, it seems extremely elitist to begin with and doesn't seem like something I'd be proud of even if I were eligible. (Not that I don't think people are 'gifted' with varying levels of intelligence, just that I don't like the idea of being so publicly haughty.) |
04-08-2006, 02:50 PM | #38 (permalink) |
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I joined way back when I was in high school just to see what it was like. I don't remember having to pay a fee to take the test, but there was an annual membership fee. I didn't renew my membership after that year because I didn't fit in with most of the people in the group, mainly because most of them were much older than I was at the time.
Nevertheless, I do think my membership helped me when I mentioned it during some of my early interviews. Like Ustwo mentioned, most people associate Mensa members with being geniuses even though that's often not the case. Then again, some people do resent that kind of thing, so it depends on who you're talking to. |
04-09-2006, 11:43 AM | #40 (permalink) | |
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Taking a test to see how smart you are is pointless to me. Joining a club to be with other smart people,...uh I dunno,..go do volunteer work or something for those apparently less fortunate. |
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