Mensa getting plenty of 3 year olds

[geo]

I just saw a news story about a 3 year old that was just inducted into Mensa. He has a 160 IQ. So to look up actual articles about such a thing, I found more and more 3 year olds accepted to Mensa.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/selena-janik-mensa_n_3624390.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/31/sherwyn-sarabi-mensa-three-year-old-genius_n_2590634.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2380978/Toddler-Anala-Beevers-boasts-IQ-145-Mensas-newest-member.html

I can't even find the latest 3 year old inducted.

The news piece also had 3 sample questions on the Mensa website to which the 3 newscasters answering the questions looked pretty buffoonish. Like what is the vowel between J and T. If 2 typists can type 2 pages per minute, how many pages can 1 typist type in 6 minutes? I was able to find these sample questions from Mensa >>

http://www.rgj.com/article/20120705/NEWS/120705020/Think-you-re-Mensa-material-Here-10-test-questions

They seem pretty simple, if not trick questions, where I can imagine people overthinking them when they need to pay attention to the details.

I remember when I was younger, my friend's uncle used to brag about being in Mensa. Everyone would laugh at him saying you also have to pay a membership.

[Gez]

Moral of the story, IQ is terrible nonsense, originally created as pseudoscience designed to justify racist and xenophobic measures, and anybody who actually believes intellect can be reduced to a single, easy to understand, integer value is most certainly far from being as smart as they think themselves to be.

[darknation]

man pays money join mensa.

man says fuck mensa, keeps money for himself.

Which one of these individuals has the higher IQ?

[fraggle]

Yeah, I had a friend at school who also used to "brag" about being in Mensa.

My favourite witticism about Mensa is that it's a club for smart people who need to be reassured about how smart they are.

[Gez]

There are benefits from joining clubs, when you can expect the other members to help you. Social networking 101.

[gggmork]

A recording of mensa's last meeting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_kof9FrBaI

[Technician]

I read the thread title as NAMBLA.

[Clonehunter]

gggmork said:

A recording of mensa's last meeting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_kof9FrBaI

I... I think I made sense of this post.

[geo]

Technician said:

I read the thread title as NAMBLA.

Yeah as I was writing the thread, I started thinking four 3 year olds inducted in a year? NAMBLA

[clamgor]

Sheesh. I hate it when people brag about anything. Whether it be about their genius or about their new material things...