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what do they mean? what's good/bad? what do you need for mensa?
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Don't bother joining Mensa whatever you do....I went to an open testing day a few years back.....did the small test first of all and then got the full test they do....paid my cash to get it marked then got a letter back saying they had ratified my IQ at 164 and I was invited to join.....I did for a year but to paraphrase groucho "I shouldn't have joined any club that would have me as a member"....I went to three meetings and was bored witless at each one....ended up getting drunk at the bar with one of the few other persons there with a sense of humour.
Click http://maxpages.com/raindrops/IQ_score
for a website that outlines the 'significance' of IQ scores. (Basically, 100 is average.) However, be aware that - almost since such tests were introduced - many experts have believed they prove nothing more than one's ability to do IQ tests! In addition, anything you attempt in the way of a test on the Internet is almost certainly valueless.
As Sft says, Mensa-members may well be intelligent, but that's no guarantee that they're anything else worthwhile...such as exciting, interesting, amusing etc etc!
The average of the population is by definition 100, but with reference to the "Test the Nation" programme, I was confused: I have always understood that genius level (i.e. the top 2 per cent of the population) is 150 and above, but on TTN they said it was 130 and above. They must have used a different standard deviation, but otherwise it is the same thing.
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