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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I agree that the whole idea of Mensa does seem slightly silly, but in the year since graduating uni I haven't been able to get a job and only 1 interview, despite a good degree result. I do have pretty rubbish A-level results though. The last two jobs I have gone for, I have put on my CV, that I am in the process of joining the Mensa society and have been asked for interview in both cases. So it seems to have helped me.
It may well have changed
I was in it a year/ I am a practical guy and if people want to be up thier own sphyncters thats fine only I don't do that.
If they are so coll to be in why do they keep advertising. There are many who could be in it who aren't
Why hasn't anyone from mensa responded to your question Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
It's amazing how many people love to slag off things they are too dim to understand so I thought I'd pitch in for the Mensans on AB
The test is the same format as the one you do at home, unless you are illiterate then there is another test, you can take that one anyway if you prefer. The difference is that the rules are stric where as at home people can be "kind" to themeseleves unsually with time. If you pass at home you'll pass the invigulated test.
Rabbi being in mensa is not the same as the IAM they only except you if you pass the test it's not about money. It's not a con you don't have to join. It's just like any other aclub you may join get get out what you want. I'm also in my local Rugby club and other clubs. Yes it's an annual subscription but Just because you can't, won't or cannot comprehend it, It's no reason to slag off the existing members, you jave no idea what we get out of our annual subs. Mrs Badely again demonstrates why she should never bother to test.
Drusilla, If you where honest when you did the home test and you reached a level that said would be high enough then do the real test, you will pass.
I personally would not anybody seriously who was in Mensa. All it means is you have more money than sense! Fancy having to have a piece of paper to prove your are intelligent. Besides, it is only a certain type of intelligence. The most socially inept man I ever met had phd.
Intelligence could be intuition/sensitivity/giving good advice/being good at spelling or maths/knowing loads of general knowledge/having a degree/not having a degree but being able to educate your children etc etc. Everyone is intelligent in different ways. MENSA just shows that your brain likes puzzles. It in no way relates, in my opinion, to actual useful intelligence!
I know a few...shall we say...eejits...who are quite convinced they are in the top 2 percent of the population because they passed the test - at home...and swore blind they didn't cheat.
The idea is to convince people they are clever by giving them a great mark for the home test - thereby encouraging them to pay �40-odd for the supervised test, because they think they will surely pass if they are that clever...Some pass, some don't, mensa get paid either way. Mensa tests are just puzzles.
As to the job interviews - I have spoken to a couple of Mensans and they both leave it off their cv as it brings negative attachments.
Glad that got a response from a couple of people who ALSO were in MENSA.
Glad pitstopbunny, in my opinion you chose with your heart and mind in tune with each other, for what is intelligence without reason.
Love and compasion are far more important
If I have not love I am a clanging cymbal ...et al
Yes it is good to be able to interact and spar with those of equal or higher IQ's, and depending where you live it can be refreshing to associate with similar people if you don't meet them in your day to day life
I feel intelligence, as our lives, are a gift and we have a duty to use our gifts wisely and with a sharing heart.
There are things far more important than MENSA just imagine if all that brain power was focused on helping others who grow the coffee we drink in the morning or the children in China who made the things we buy in ASDA.
Could I suggest spending your money , if not already spent, on famine relief in Niger or trying to stop child prostitution in Brasil or Asia , or buying livestock for widows and orphans or saving hundreds of lives by providing money on a regular basis to build safe water supplies in the fourth world. such as Kenya ( where I work and yes we pay all our own expenses and 100% of all donations go to the people and communities we work with)
Sometimes in the West we forget how unimportant we are, how some people dont have the affordances we take for granted. They spend all their time trying to stop their famillies from dying
Use what you have to make a difference, the greatest gift is the gift of life,it can cost as little as �10
Four lives or a MENSA subscription .... hmmm now thats a hard one
may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old
I was asked for �30 to take the supervised test - 10 years ago! God knows what it is now!
I did the home test out of curiosity because it was free, and although I am no dunce, and i did the test rigidly, I don't believe I am in the top 1 percent of the country for brains - as the results stated!!
they wanted my head to swell and to tempt me to pay...and I confess i did consider it.
the tests are done all over the country and if i remember correctly this one was booked in a back room in a library.
a guy I know did one and said it is one person watching like a school exam, in a little room. he failed spectacularly, but he'd been excited to think he may be clever ( we got onto the topic because he actually thought he was a member of mensa, simply through the home test! he hadn't even taken the supervised one until i told him he had to if he wanted to be in mensa! thats how much brains he had!) he later claimed to have not been trying, as he wasn't that bothered - �30 not to be bothered!! i think not - he just felt stupid.
having said that if you're into this kind of thing - go for it - its just a club as you say...my only problem is the clearly fake home test designed to draw people in, who clearly are not that clever and fail the test miserably.
I have heard it can be quite a fun club but it really is just puzzles - it is not a real test of intelligence.
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