geo Posted December 28, 2013 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. 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted December 28, 2013 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. 0 Share this post Link to post
darknation Posted December 28, 2013 man pays money join mensa. man says fuck mensa, keeps money for himself. Which one of these individuals has the higher IQ? 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted December 28, 2013 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. 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted December 28, 2013 There are benefits from joining clubs, when you can expect the other members to help you. Social networking 101. 0 Share this post Link to post
gggmork Posted December 28, 2013 A recording of mensa's last meeting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_kof9FrBaI 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted December 28, 2013 I read the thread title as NAMBLA. 0 Share this post Link to post
Clonehunter Posted December 28, 2013 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. 0 Share this post Link to post
geo Posted December 29, 2013 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 0 Share this post Link to post
clamgor Posted December 30, 2013 Sheesh. I hate it when people brag about anything. Whether it be about their genius or about their new material things... 0 Share this post Link to post