What is your IQ range ?

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You too, huh?

Maybe we need a "Do you belong to MENSA?" poll, and then we can decide if skydiving MENSA members are hopelessly weird or just a little eccentric.



I'd also like to know what members do at the meetings. Are there little 12 step ladder puzzles, for example?

I joined for one year and then let my membership lapse. The people in my local chapter were a little freakish, moderately boring, seriously self-obsessed, and the group politics were utterly asinine. I still subscribe to a moderated Mensa mailing list (formerly usenet) in which some of the discussions are actually cogent. Again though, some of the people seem more concerned with seeming intelligent than actually carrying on an intelligent conversation. Personally, I'd rather pick an average open mind than a gifted closed mind.

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

[AlexCrowley 0]

I look at MENSA this way: if you need to join a club to prove to people how smart you are then you're probably not that smart.

TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

[livendive 8]

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if you need to join a club to prove to people how smart you are then you're probably not that smart.

While I agree with that statement, there seems to be an underlying assumption that the only reason someone would join Mensa is to prove to people how smart they are. I'd say that assumption is unfortunately valid for some members, but definitely not for all.

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

[RhondaLea 4]

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....The Know-It All for a fun take on intelligence vs. knowledge. The author decides to read the Encyclopedia Brittanica cover to cover. He does a lot of little side things, too, like interviewing people in Mensa, interviewing people with off-the-charts IQs, etc. Lots of fun (and a peek into the lives of Mensans).

His website is here: http://www.ajjacobs.com/

If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

[thegreekone 0]

Technically true, but in reality, stupid people don't have much in the way of knowledge

[JUDYJ 0]

my answers

7/6/10+

I can't "BE WITH" someone who I can't talk to.

stupid hurts..

IF you are going to be Stupid - you better be tough!

[happythoughts 0]

Whatever happened to the old standard of "a fool and their money are soon parted"? A dumb chick with a credit card could be a good date.

Explaining to her boyfriend... "Well...I didn't mean to sleep with him... he tricked me..."

[FIREFLYR 0]

I was given an IQ test yesterday they said I scored a 142, I told them that would explain what a mess I am.
~J

"One flew East,and one flew West..............one flew over the cuckoo's nest"
"There's absolutely no excuse for the way I'm about to act"

[Muenkel 0]

Back when I was in elementary school, they used the Stanford-Binet tests on all the students. They did report our scores to us and our parents. Mine was a 146. Huge mistake! They begin to expect great things from you. I was more interested in watching Bugs Bunny. High School, I was not into at all. I just wanted to party, but since I did have close to a photographic memory, I managed a B+ average without applying myself. College was better, I graduated with a 3.71 GPA and Grad school a 3.8.

What did this all mean to me? Nothing really. I was never interested in becoming a rocket scientist (no offense to Wendy of course.
I think I'm like most people. I'm extremely intelligent in certain areas and extremely ignorant in many others. It usually has to do with what interests me. If a subject does not capture my interest, I can't be bothered with it...sometimes to my detriment.

Chris

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Chris

[BillyVance 35]

High IQ's do not always make good students. I had a higher IQ than my brother, but he was almost always a straight A student, even earning valedictorian honors in most grade levels, while I was mostly a C student. Then again, maybe being deaf in mainstreamed classes had something to do with it...

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Muenkel 0]

Are you agreeing or disagreeing with me?

I'm too stupid to figure it out.

BTW, my 14 year old niece is also deaf and she is consistently on the High Honor Roll.

Chris

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Chris

[AlexCrowley 0]

so, when's your renewal date?
stereotypes and generalizations are so much easier than doing roll call.

TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

[PLFXpert 0]

<--only child, parents never in town, consequently didn't make it to class too often in H.S. but managed straight As. Knew the attendance lady in the office--did her some favors--and made an agreement with most teachers that as long as I got an A on test days, they'd let some of the absenses slide. Whew!

Same in college, but college really didn't want you in class--there were 1,000+ kids in each of my classes--everything on powerpoint on professor's personal websites--3 exams, just show up on exam day.

Thoses were the days My income is in my control these days, so I can't *ditch* like I used to unless I want to give up my house & hobbies. And it's so flippin beautiful today...

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[BlindBrick 0]

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When I had a full IQ test done in the 4th grade (the real thing, several hours with a psychologist) to qualify to ride the short bus to a gifted program, my parents would not tell me the number, just that it met the minimum qualifications for the program. Pissed me off back then, but I'm really happy I've never known the number.

Yeah, I think not letting your kids know the score is important. When I was a kid, they let me see my test scores and I instantly knew I was propping up the entire class(very small school). This led to me slacking off because I knew the administration and teachers would leave me alone as long as I performed on test day. In all honesty the only reason I managed to graduate high school is that Oklahoma has a 2.0 minimum GPA if you want to play sports, and I was into football and academic team.

-Blind

"If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

[PLFXpert 0]

My claim to fame:

I routinely scored the highest in my school each time I took this test.



A weird but true fact.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[turtlespeed 226]

O/O/O

I think I forgot to turn the machine on.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[SpeedRacer 1]

I took an IQ test once. The results came back negative.

Speed Racer
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[DrewEckhardt 0]

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I look at MENSA this way: if you need to join a club to prove to people how smart you are then you're probably not that smart.

Might be a reasonable way to meet intelligent people who are neither co-workers nor relatives with whom you can engage in wordplay and discussion that would be one-sided and mutually boring with most people of average intelligence.

[turtlespeed 226]

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I look at MENSA this way: if you need to join a club to prove to people how smart you are then you're probably not that smart.

Might be a reasonable way to meet intelligent people who are neither co-workers nor relatives with whom you can engage in wordplay and discussion that would be one-sided and mutually boring to most people of average intelligence.

Or you could swap stories like . . .

No Shit there I was and I thought I was going to die - when my glasses broke and I had to use tape to hold them together in the middle.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[warpedskydiver 0]

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[jumpjunkie2004 0]

X / X-1 / X

Jump, Land, Pack, Repeat...

[freeflir29 0]

Seriously.............I have been scored at a low of 130 on a 1 page test and as high as 142 on a multi hour exam. My sister got all the brains in the family though. She is like 155. Too high for common sense.

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I have been scored at a low of 130 on a 1 page test and as high as 142 on a multi hour exam.

On the same multi-hour exam taken twice I scored 8 points different.

When I rated myself previously I was taking the average of the two.

Tests shmests.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[jeannajumps 0]

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I joined MENSA in College, I never met a group of people completely lacking so much common sense

I joined Mensa three years ago when I was 16, but am completely inactive. Based on the Mensa Bulletin and other Mensan publications that I have read, I find Mensans to generally be arrogant and delusional. I am so tired of reading about the "top 2% advantage" mentioned in just about every article. I imagine most Mensans as a bunch of middle aged socially challenged people playing scrabble and other board games. Hmm... why am I still a member?

[warpedskydiver 0]

why join any organization that would have you as a member?