Are You a Member of Mensa

[MartinLiss]

Are you, or have you ever been?

[BodwadUK]

Now you are stupid for asking a question like that on VBForums

[MartinLiss]

Originally posted by BodwadUK
Now you are stupid for asking a question like that on VBForums

Why?

[plenderj]

Believe it or not Mensa have sent me out a home self-test for me to fill out. Just haven't had the time yet

[manavo11]

What's that?

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

Mensa = club where arrogant, while fairly intelligent, people pay money to get a card that proclaims their intelligence.

"I'm in Mensa. I'll prove it! I got a card that says so!"





No! I'm not, nor do I ever plan to become a member.

[MartinLiss]

I'm a former Mensa member and I can say that most of the members that I met were not arrogant. That is not to say that none were, but no more than what you would find in the general population. The one trait of Mensa members that stands out however is social ineptness. My theory on why that is the case is that many bright people are "book worms" and so they do not get the same practice interacting with people that the rest of the population does. Also, bright kids are often picked on in school and tend to withdraw within themselves.

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

Or perhaps it's that they find status games silly, chit-chat as mere rhetoric, and maybe just have nothing at all to say.

[Foxer]

I wonder if Stephen Hawkings has taken the time to join ...

[Memnoch1207]

Originally posted by Gary Campbell
I wonder if Stephen Hawkings has taken the time to join ...

I wonder if he's just too smart for them???

[alkatran]

I'm near the top of my school and not socially inept... although I'll admit I used to be. You just have to.. go out there... It's surprisingly easy.

Oh, and the fact that my high school has a total of 350 students might have something to do with this too. (Every senior knows pretty much every other senior's face) A big friendly school lol.. (We've had like 1 or 2 pregnancies in the time I've been here... Apparently that's LOW)

[crptcblade]

Originally posted by DiGiTaIErRoR
Mensa = club where arrogant, while fairly intelligent, people pay money to get a card that proclaims their intelligence.

How much is it if you just want the card?

[mendhak]

Mensa - wats is dat?

MartinLiss displays his familiarity with pro-retro-funk, modern generation lingo.

Yo.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I heard their meetings were mostly a dating club for the bright. Maybe it was bright and socially inept. Never actually met a member.

[wossname]

I'm so smart, I keep asking Mensa to send me an application pack but they won't.

They are clearly intimidated by my voluminous intellect and uh, y'know like whatever. Or somethin'.

[dogfish227]

Mensa - wats is dat?

2 entries found for Mensa.
men·sa ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mns)
n. Ecclesiastical
The top surface of an altar.


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[Latin mnsa, table.]



Men·sa ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mns)
n.
A southern constellation between Hydrus and Volans

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

Originally posted by crptcblade
How much is it if you just want the card?

To take the Mensa test it costs $35, last time I heard.

[mendhak]

Originally posted by DiGiTaIErRoR
To take the Mensa test it costs $35, last time I heard.

But if you were Mensa material, you would have known that already

[Dillinger4]

How smart do you have to be, to be a member of Mensa? 120 130 180, over 200 IQ?

[Nightwalker83]

Originally posted by Dilenger4
120

God I hope not. If that were the case I'd be almost guaranteed a spot.

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

Supposedly, an IQ over 133 would get you into Mensa.

[Nightwalker83]

Originally posted by DiGiTaIErRoR
Supposedly, an IQ over 133 would get you into Mensa.

What about an iq of 133.33 recuring? Note: I'm am being sarcastic.

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

Originally posted by Nightwalker83
What about an iq of 133.33 recuring? Note: I'm am being sarcastic.

Well done, 133.3 is greater than 133.

[Nightwalker83]

Originally posted by DiGiTaIErRoR
Well done, 133.3 is greater than 133.

[BodwadUK]

Well thats me failed then i thought it was lower

[Memnoch1207]

Famous Mensa members

ALAN RACHINS: Plays Douglas Brachman in TV hit "L.A. Law." He left the Wharton School of Finance against his father's wishes to pursue an acting career. During the '60s he was in the cast of "Oh Calcutta," a highly controversial play where cast members appeared nude on stage.

ADRIAN CRONAUER: Radio personality and subject for the move "Good Morning Vietnam." Started his radio career at 12 in his hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, where he hosted a children's amateur hour. Worked as a DJ at various radio stations and in Saigon during the Vietnam War. He is also a lawyer. Cronauer was originally attracted to Mensa because of the work they do for gifted children.

MARILYN VOS SAVANT: Listed in the Guinness Hall of Fame for having the world's highest recorded I.Q. (228). She is the wife of Robert Jarvik, inventor of the Jarvik 7 artificial heart. She also writes "Ask Marilyn," a weekly column that appears nationally in "Parade" magazine.

GEENA DAVIS: Actress. co-starred with Susan Sarandon in the hit movie "Thelma & Louise." Received an Academy Award nomination for her role in "The Accidental Tourist."

Mensa accepts a minimum IQ score of 132 on the Standford-Binet test. Apparently, I can be a member of mensa.

[yrwyddfa]

What's the point of Mensa, though? I think that surely we have moved on from elitist or secret clubs . . . .


. . . or maybe not

(wink wink say no more)

[BodwadUK]

You just have to look at the questions to know that its very selective. Many people dont even understand what to do!!!

[Nightwalker83]

Originally posted by yrwyddfa
What's the point of Mensa, though? I think that surely we have moved on from elitist or secret clubs . . . .


. . . or maybe not

(wink wink say no more)

I was told some Mensa members are totally jerks anyway.