Mensa

[lex]

Hey,

Anyone here a member of mensa, if so whats your IQ?

I just did a home test thing which im about to send off, was easy answered all the questions i may have gotten like 2 wrong though. Hopefully become a member so i can stick it on my CV

 

[Scott-Copywriter]

Don't you need to have a supervised test to become a member of Mensa?

 

[asonda]

I thought you had to go through rigorous tests to become a member, They release brain packs every year of new ways to try and complicated your brain. I get them just to try out, so if it's really easy to get in on it! let us all know!

 

[lex]

Hey,

Yeh you have to do a supervised test, the home test is just a test to roughly show your iq, so you can see if its worth taking the supervised test.

@asonda: maybe its easy for me, might not be easy for everyone else

 

[asonda]

Hey,

Yeh you have to do a supervised test, the home test is just a test to roughly show your iq, so you can see if its worth taking the supervised test.

@asonda: maybe its easy for me, might not be easy for everyone else

Possibly not, but I can get through the packs pretty easily when I bother trying...

How do we get access to the home test?

 

[RayB]

I'm too daft - they tested me at school when I was 7 and it was only 146, did a DIY test at 25 and slipped to 144 - daren't do one now I am 40 'cos a few more brain cells have probably packed up since last test

 

[lex]

Supposedly your IQ doesnt change. There are a few different IQ tests, mensa has 2 types, so chances are the test types changed which affects your IQ, which is why they give IQ ranges instead of a number.

You can get the home test from http://www.mensa.org.uk/mensa-test/, they send it out free with a pre-paid envelope so you can send it back free, but they charge £9.95 (ripoff) to mark it and send back your results.

 

[asonda]

Supposedly your IQ doesnt change. There are a few different IQ tests, mensa has 2 types, so chances are the test types changed which affects your IQ, which is why they give IQ ranges instead of a number.

You can get the home test from http://www.mensa.org.uk/mensa-test/, they send it out free with a pre-paid envelope so you can send it back free, but they charge £9.95 (ripoff) to mark it and send back your results.

Sweet! I'll be trying that in the near future, when I get a bit of free time!

Well I suppose they have to make money somewhere but a tenner isn't too bad!

When I was at Secondary School, We did a huge IQ test. We had to sit there, listen to an audio recording, and had a set amount of time for each section, things such as algebra, rotating complex 3d models, obscure questions, Many of my friends came out saying how hard they thought it was, and that they didn't hardly manage to finish each section....

I got the best result

 

[An Oasis]

I told them that their tests were boring and now they won't let me in, how dumb is that?:|

 

[Tobes]

When you send back the unsupervised test and if you're above the 2% threshold they will send you a list of dates and locations local to you in order to do the supervised test.

For anyone who wants to get into Mensa badly enough, I will, for a fee, sit the test for you, as long as you also pay for the fake identification

As an after-thought, it's always very surprising, the number of people on near-anonymous forums who have Mensa-level IQs seeing as though it's only the top 2% of the population...

 

[Gillie]

Gosh, you lads will be off measuring something else in a minute, like how thick your mobile is

Why on earth is everything a competition for you fellas??

 

[asonda]

42 Inches.........

 

[simonswords]

I did the test online once a few years ago and was told that I might be in with a chance of getting in. At that stage I found out that I had to pay for it!!!

So mensa checked my IQ and told me that they think I'm quite clever, and then they wanted me to pay for something with no obvious benefits. An offer I'd be dumb to accept surely??!?

 

[RayB]

Gosh, you lads will be off measuring something else in a minute, like how thick your

Gillie, you really do need to calm down

 

[lex]

I did the test online once a few years ago and was told that I might be in with a chance of getting in. At that stage I found out that I had to pay for it!!!

So mensa checked my IQ and told me that they think I'm quite clever, and then they wanted me to pay for something with no obvious benefits. An offer I'd be dumb to accept surely??!?

Yes i did the online test, had to pay for the results i didnt back then. Now i decided i want to know my iq.

 

[Pilfo]

Also did the test not so long ago, and attained 154

Pilfo

 

[lex]

Also did the test not so long ago, and attained 154

Pilfo

Nice, maybe theres a link to being entrepreneurial and IQ

Apart from the fact there are alot of idiots who start businesses.

 

[varybarry]

What does mensa stand for? sorry for being out of the loop.

 

[RayB]

What does mensa stand for? sorry for being out of the loop.

Mental Emptiness Notifies Shallow Afflictions

 

[lex]

Mental Emptiness Notifies Shallow Afflictions

LOL, its not an acronym, but nice guess.

Its quite ironic, mensa is latin for "table" and its supposed to represent a table where everyone is equal, but to sit at that table you must have a certain IQ hehe, leaving people out. So obviously everyone isnt equal

 

[varybarry]

Oh thanks for the information. I found a little left out not knowing what it meant, but apparently I wasn't the only one.

 

[RayB]

LOL, its not an acronym, but nice guess.

Not an acronym, not a guess either.

Where I live (a place called planet earth) it is called common sense

Being in Mensa will not make you:

• Good at business
• Attractive to the opposite sex
• Rich
• Loved

Other than that - it is perfect

 

[lex]

Im all ready good at business (the subject), beauty is in the eyes of the beholder or i could be gay (im not), i do have a wealth (of knowledge) plus compared to normal students im rich i have money lol, my parents unconditional love.

So as you can see, mensa is all i need to complete me.

 

Apparently intelligence is 80% inherited (I read that about 15 years ago) but I wouldn't be convinced. That said, was it Tobes who referred to his 'idiot siblings'? Perhaps there's something in it...

 

[Gillie]

Being in Mensa will not make you:

• Good at business
• Attractive to the opposite sex
• Rich
• Loved

Other than that - it is perfect

Speak for yourself you ... !!

 

[Tobes]

Apparently intelligence is 80% inherited (I read that about 15 years ago) but I wouldn't be convinced. That said, was it Tobes who referred to his 'idiot siblings'? Perhaps there's something in it...

Well thank you very much

 

Only joking as you know - you're a bright spark and don't you know it...

 

[Tobes]

rofl well thank you very much

 

[Gillie]

Well someone has to be nice to you Toby ... so that course of yours must work for some!!

 

[RayB]

Speak for yourself you ... !!

I was speaking for me Gillie

 

[Gillie]

But what happens when both settings apply??

 

[lex]

I was speaking for me Gillie

Your only saying that because i owned you with my awesome reply.

 

[Tobes]

Well someone has to be nice to you Toby ... so that course of yours must work for some!!

Well who is that someone?!

Unfortunately all my 'fluence has achieved thus far is a slight reduction in the cost of my ham from the deli counter in Waitrose...

 

More seriously, I don't think intelligence is static. There are a number of things that can influence intelligence like your environment and such like. There are also different types of intelligence, for example, fluid and crystallized intelligence. If memory serves, one increases with age and the other decreases (can't remember which is which though).

 

to quote Groucho " I wouln't join any club that would have me as a member "

If you think being in mensa signifies intelligence you must be dim.

Look at all the great creators and inventors can't think of one who was in mensa ,except "Clive C5 Sinclair"

Earl

 

[Tobes]

Obviously the environment e.g. through good teaching, good family helps a person grow but if it aint there to start with it just aint there

Some people can do some things, other people can't, no matter how hard they try. I do think though that very few people actually fully utilise their potential.

 

[Tobes]

to quote Groucho " I wouln't join any club that would have me as a member "

If you think being in mensa signifies intelligence you must be dim.

Look at all the great creators and inventors can't think of one who was in mensa ,except "Clive C5 Sinclair"

Earl

In the end, all getting in to Mensa means is that you are good at IQ tests. However, there is a certain correlation with general intelligence

 

Ah, but we all have a level of intelligence, the only time we don't is when we are dead.

 

[Tobes]

I didn't state what that correlation is

 

Ah, but we all have a level of intelligence, the only time we don't is when we are dead.

I ain't so sure of that,I feel that some dead people must have more intelligence that some of the live people I have met

and some times its hard to tell the difference

Earl