Can you buy me some beer? My parents are total squares.
He was, but he decided that the members were too arrogant about their intelligence, so he resigned. Later, he joined again, and then resigned a second time.
I took the sample test a couple years ago and passed with no problem. What holds me back is that it seems to imply elitism…which may not be the case.
Do you find a lot of elitism when you attend gatherings, or are people genuinely looking for others of like brain? The truth be told, I already prefer the brightest people, but I dislike arrogance in people.
Everyone tells me I should join to find other singles…
Asimov’s best comment on Mensa was that it wasn’t “table” in Latin, but instead was named such because of the periodic nature of its meetings. 
No, I didn’t speak French in utereo. What! Like anyone could be triligual before they were born. Jeesh.
I used to be a member of Mensa, until the night they chased me out with their pitchforks and flaming torches!
You can make us… strong.
I was tested and tested as a kid (starting at 4, I think). I knew I qualified for the gifted program (132 on whatever test we took) in the fourth grade, but my mom wouldn’t tell me my score because I would lord it over the other kids (which I would have, gleefully, because I was a brat.)*
She told me when I turned 18.
I never joined Mensa because there never seemed to be an active local chapter. Now I don’t really see a need, unless I can cull some D&D players from it.
Oh, I have a BA… in Film, naturally.
*(I think I was highest or second highest in the district… I test well and I enjoy testing AND I enjoy the types of questions you get on IQ tests).
You need to be insane to read Tolstoy. Really.
I wondered where this “C. S. Lewis” was coming from.
From inside the house.
As a zygote, I translated the entire Bible from its original Klingon into Xhosa.
I agree with comments about testing bias and also question what, if anything, we can conclude from high IQ scores. I am certain that we cannot conclude that successful test-takers are better-adjusted, more interesting, more ethical, or more compassionate human beings.
The MENSA USA site says you can get in with 163 on the LSAT. That is around the 90th percentile on the that test.
This gives a brief history of said standardized testing. I took a course that also said that Binet gave qualification tests to immigrants at Ellis Island. Apparently this is where the idea that “Polish people are stupid” came from. Few people could read the test, since it was only given in english.
Wow–you joined SDMB when you were -4. That’s precocious!
I’ve never taken an IQ test since I was in primary school, and my parents told the tester that didn’t want to know what the results were. He told them they were very high, but they stopped him before he went any further and said they really didn’t want to know, and it was better that I not know either. They’ve always taken the view that IQ tests were ultimately meaningless, and said more about your ability to answer exam questions than your intelligence.
To this day, I think they did the right thing.
I know I’m smart (as does anyone who’s met me), yet I do appallingly in most tests- I suffer from chronic (almost debilitating, in fact) exam stress and I’ve pretty much had to put Uni on hold because I simply can’t handle the end of year exam period (and some other issues which aren’t germane to this particular topic, of course)- especially because it only gets worse as I fail subjects.
But even if I was eligible to join MENSA, I doubt I would. I strongly suspect I’d have nothing in common with them, and I’m too sting to pay membership fees…
Kinda like Dopers, then?