I joined many years ago for my daughter. I spent some of my early school years quite bored, I think due to a lack of challenges. My daughter was verbally precocious, and I wanted to learn what I could about helping her remain challenged and interested in school. Mensa claimed to have some expertise in this area, and I joined in the hope of learning from them. It turned out that the chair position of that committee had been vacant for quite a while, and that there was no local activity in that area. I found the local publication and the one activity I attended overly pretentious, and I lost interest.
Oh, yeah, and to be truly honest, what Cunctator said, too.
Got that right. I was in Mensa myself, but I saw that on a resume once and gave the guy demerits for bragging. It was as though he’d put down that he had a high school swimming trophy and just had to tell the world about it. But I did hire him and he was a nice guy.
You wouldn’t have to assume as I already said I read it.
Your post still doesn’t explain why a group of really smart people would choose to be associated with a group of badass, gun-toting, dope-slinging killers, but it’s not really important.
You know what really drives Mensans crazy? When you take their test and qualify for membership in Mensa, but decline to join. That’s what I did.
I took the test because my boss at the time (with whom I was and am close friends) wanted to see if she could get in, and didn’t want to go to the test alone. We both qualified (actually, I already knew I qualified for membership on the basis of my ACT scores), and she joined but I didn’t. Frankly, I LIKE being the smartest person in the room. grin Besides, I didn’t really see any benefit.
Anyway, that was about three years ago, and they STILL send me e-mails trying to get me to join. I think it’s like a cheerleader who asks a nerd out on a dare and gets turned down – they see me as an affront to their aura of perceived superiority.
Yeah, but it looks like their basic premise is that an IQ of 132 is the cutoff. I realize that that’s the 98th percentile, but, frankly (and yes I am the most godawful snob), an IQ of 132 doesn’t seem like the most sheep-and-goatish of dividing spots. I’d always assumed it was 99th percentile.
Yeah, I heard they were talking about you at their annual director’s meeting. "That Chef Troy grumble grumble inaudible, he’s foiled our evil plans for the last time! " cue onimous chord, followed by a theremin solo
I’m surprised at the SAT score cut off. It’s 1250 for the time period I took the SAT. I did just barely better than 1250, and I didn’t think that was so hot.
