Is anyone a member of MENSA?

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MENSA is good if you plan on being one of those artsy types who got rich through some major FUBAR by karma and spending your entire day sipping overpriced champagne in a New York penthouse filled with complete idiots guffawing at your own guests so as to further qualify you are smart.

Otherwise, I don't think anyone takes it seriously. Not that there's a billion of them running around or anything, but anyone I've met that's in MENSA has been pretty lame. Even one of my cousins, unfortunately.

I've never had a genuine IQ test, but if I did and I qualified I still wouldn't join. It just seems like a way to be stuck up around everyone else.

The other thing that I am uncomfortable with about MENSA is that in Utah they all want to do certain types of activities (e.g. Chess). I really don't care for chess and I am not very good at it. It seems like they just want to do that and other types of games like that because they're "smart" games. No desire to do that here.

I couldn't join as I have the very lowly IQ of 120. The 90th percentile just doesn't cut it. I'm not smart at all.

How did you get a WP membership, moron?

A thought occurs to me: There are some people who are very smart, yet could not contribute anything at all to MENSA's proceedings. And there are also people who have lower IQ's, but whose passion and hard work often overcomes intellectual deficiencies, and who would really be an asset to MENSA. So it seems like discriminating based on IQ is not the greatest idea.

Ha ha ha!
With all this talk about Mensa, I've just received two emails from Mensanians letting me know of the "local" testing that's coming up!
Yeah, it's about a three hour drive from where I live. Yeah. I don't think so.
They want me to pay $30 for the testing, but I'd spend more than that in the gas! Also, they don't even give you the "scores"!
They only tell you whether or not you're in the 95th percentile (pass or fail)....no IQ points, no ratings, nothing.
Whatever.
I just take IQ tests to know that I'm (crazy) unique ...but smart enough to "dumb it down" so I "fit in" .
Thanks for everyone taking the time to discuss this! It's been fun!

To werbert: I think you'll find that MENSA is a bit hot on IQ being the precise condition for membership. However, as someone earlier on pointed out, it would appear that if you are female, and a male member (that's not intended as a double entendre, but what the hell) fancies you, he can fiddle it so you take the "special" tests. (Does anyone else find that whole thought so offensive on so many levels that I can't bring myself to even type them?)

To candid89: Sad, but I seem to have lost the knack for "dumbing it down". Is there a URI for it?

I wonder if Mensa is a breeding ground for narcissistic personality disorder genes?

I have an IQ coming in at a smooth 144, two points below the needed entry level. Trying to prove to anyone at school I had such an IQ resulted in me being called a liar an a 'faker'.

Haha, people make me laugh.

mensa allows for 98th percentile or above, you don't have to be 99th. some IQ tests have 134 as the start of the 98th; some have 129 even. some are 135. totally depends on the test.

My IQ is 126.

Tim

Just don't bother. It's not like proving your IQ is better than theirs will really have that much of a difference. What matters is that YOU know it, and that you try to use it to encourage yourself to something higher, and not as something to brag about or to make you content with staying where you are.

Steve

I thought Mensa required 138 on just about all of the standard IQ tests.

I had a look at MENSA's website. What a joke. The home page title is "Home". Inspired, doncha think?

Oh! I love this! I ran the W3C Validator on MENSA's front page and it gave no errors:
<url>http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mensa.org%2F</url>

I've just started taking their test, on the site. What a joke. Question 25 made me laugh:
"Continue the following number series with the group of numbers below which best continues the series?"
And they say that the test is biased toward English speakers?

I've already skipped a couple of questions that just annoy me. Ones where the tester has a answer in their mind but the question doesn't, so to speak.

There's also a lovely one about walking 4 metres, turning a right angle and walking another 3 metres. Ha! Pythagoras, maybe? They want the answer 5 (actually, doubled, but so what), but they've obviously never visited the poles, or indeed, any non-Euclidean space.

They say there's a time limit of 30 minutes, but that won't affect your score. Is that double-Dutch they're talking? Or gobble-de-gook. I find it so hard to tell the difference.

what is the IQ criteria?? I test between 129-132 and I thought the criteria was that you had to be above 130????? Not that I would join, I do not even begin to have time for it and what would it accomplish. Besides, my money is much better spent elsewhere. It shocks me everytime I test that high because I do not feel that I am "super" smart. I do however feel that a majority of people around me are complete idiots! so what does that say about me??LOL