Someone just brought it to me on papers because of a certain sci-fi book we previously discussed. The main motive in said book was a hierarchy of stages of genii, with some funny hyperlogical conclusions, like: a genius of order n can recognize as a genius only lower genii, equal to himself order genii and genii of order n+1, but any n+2 and higher order genius is so genial he cannot be accepted as a genius by mere order n genius. (This reasoning has strong consequences for both problems of artificial entities construction and civilizations distribution in universe, but let's not dig too deep into this now.)
My result was kind of "exceeded the range of measurability" for this admission test (just 100% logical problems solved, nothing special) and I received a letter summoning me urgently to the local Mensa office.
Though I never considered myself a genius. I knew several people much smarter than I, too. Playing chess or go or doing some math or write assembly code is a good rough metric for such sorting. Me realizing not being a genius means I recognize myself only a genius of order 0, normal human.
Now comes the real situation problem: if the test designed by Mensa had been purposed for lookup for some genius order m higher than my own genius order, I would not make it. But I did, so it was not (existential proof). So, I deduced if those genial people at Mensa of some geniality order (n) are actually considering me (proof by letter) being an equal or higher genius (n+1) by definition of geniality hierarchy they are either normal (0) as me, while certainly not much smarter than me (m>=n+2) seeking for smarter than me, nor the little bit smarter smarter than me (they at order 1, for I would fail some of their tests at least in this case), or perhaps they are not even as smart as I am, then because if n+1=0 then n=-1 and conclusively, their collective order of geniality is actually negative.
So, after receiving the summoning letter, I lost immediately interest in such imaginary organization and never contacted them.
-- Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
Mensa is top 2%. Did you take an official, timed exam that said you are in the top 2%? I did. It was fairly easy, and I'm probably in the top 1024 on the planet in IQ.
Different approved tests give reliably different scores. The two major ones used by head shrinkers give results over ten points different for the same individual.
Different approved tests give reliably different scores. The two major ones used by head shrinkers give results over ten points different for the same individual.
Have no reason to doubt it, but would love to see attribution.
Relatedly (and only from memory -- sorry no links), I recall reading that the same person taking the same test but on different days (unsure of time separation) can also vary just as much.
Check mensa's site. They list two different professionally administered tests last I looked and give different minimum scores for each for this reason. You can follow the rabbit hole as far as you like from there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:56AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:56AM (#1136804)
You’ve been scammed. Mensa tests are not nearly as rigorous as a real iq test. They want to get as many suckers as possible. Hello, sucker. Why weren’t you smart enough to do some research?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:30PM
(1 child)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:30PM (#1136991)
In other words, you were demonstrably wrong both on your claim to have no ego and to be a genius. Way to go, “genius”.
Anyone of evern average intellect could have predicted that you would be called to account for this bs. You’ve just marked yourself as an internet moron.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:49AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:49AM (#1136801)
You actually believed that letter? Mensa isn’t rigorous in their tests. There are plenty of people who aren’t geniuses by standards tests, but they only have to pass ONE variant of their tests to be classified as a “genius “.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @10:50PM
(4 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday April 12 2021, @10:50PM (#1136728)
Someone once suggested I join Mensa since my SAT and GRE scores automatically qualified me.
I then figured the "smart" move was _not_ to pay somebody to certify that I was smart.
Now, forty years later, check this out: Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.
-- Someone please explain to Hemo that my AC posts never get moderated because no one understands them. He is cruel to blame the dullards for dullness.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:53AM
(1 child)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:53AM (#1136781)
In my callow youth, I did join Mensa, as both my SAT and ACT scores qualified me to join. I went to a party held by the local group. To let you know my level of social awkwardness and introvertedness, I showed up on time.
I learned a valuable lesson that night. Only the extroverted folks go to the parties. I let some blowhard that everyone else was obviously trying to avoid, "corner" me and tell me all about his physics experiments at his department at the local university. That way I didn't need to try to come up with something to say; throwing a question at this guy occasionally was all that was required to keep his verbal flow going.
I did leave early, though. I didn't renew my membership the next year.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:53AM
(4 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:53AM (#1136782)
99.6 percent of geniuses aren’t stupid enough to pay to be a member of a totally useless organization.
So you’re in the lowest o.4% - way to go “genius”.
The only question is “why?” Insecurity? Not smart enough to research this bullshit group? Don’t have a life so you never developed the skills to socialize with “normies?” Or maybe you have more money than brains (there’s a lot of that going around)? Sure, it’s not much money, but it would have been better invested in beer and pizza for people around you.
Let me guess - you think you’ll meet someone who can appreciate you for your brains. Hahaha. So sad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:49PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:49PM (#1137002)
I knew someone who joined Mensa. They had previously been found not criminally responsible for patricide. I wonder just how many losers join because that’s the only place they fit in, and how many have serious underlying pathologies that would be obvious in a normal environment.
I wonder, but not enough to do any sort of informal research - you never know what will set them off.
Mine is apparently 145. And so what? That and $2 will get me on the NFTA Metro (well, I have a monthly pass, but you know).
Intelligence is only half of the equation. High INT is when you know tomatoes are technically a berry; high WIS is when you know that they don't go in a fruit salad.
-- I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @02:02AM
(1 child)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday April 13 2021, @02:02AM (#1136808)
Tomatoes don’t go in a fruit salad? I’m shocked, absolutely shocked, I say!
Mind you, sweet cherry tomatoes might make an interesting addition? I thought mayonnaise in French fries would be gross, but I love it. Sometimes you have to try something different and take it on trust when someone says it’s good. Like the first person to eat lobster or snails.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @02:40AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday April 13 2021, @02:40AM (#1136813)
Next -- try peanut butter on sweet pepper slices. Mmmmm!
----
College GF later joined Mensa for awhile. We kept in touch occasionally and she mentioned that the meetings she went to were all about hooking up. Not much intelligence in evidence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @11:01PM
(4 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday April 13 2021, @11:01PM (#1137150)
SAT scores are not an IQ test. Any genius would know that. But Mensa will accept them so they can get more suckers.
So again, why do this and brag about it if you have no ego? You said it was to inform us. Why?
Okay, but...what will you *do* with this superior intellect of yours? What positive difference have you made in the world thus far, and how much did your gigantic pulsing exposed neocortex have to do with it?
I never got to do much with mine, but it's made me a damn good pharmacy worker. It's good for picking up on how to do the job quickly and how to keep sterility and safety in the IV room. But you know what's more important than IQ for that? Good will, keeping myself slim and speedy, and a good heart. The high IQ helps but it's nowhere near even the top of the list. And yet, this is how I do good in the world. There are better people than me with perfectly average or even below-normal IQs. There are better people than me in third-world countries who every day do their best to help their families and villages. Intelligence is not the whole story.
-- I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
It's getting to be a while ago now. I'm class of 2006 in high school, so 2005? I do know it's before they added the essay requirement to the SAT. GRE would have been a few years later of course.
Why does your IQ matter to you so much, though? I have to ask, again, what are you *doing* with this superior intellect of yours? Remember, to whom much is given, of that person much is expected. If you are truly this intelligent, you have an obligation to do something good with it, more than someone with just an average IQ. Circumstances might prevent you from reaching your full potential (Madokami knows I'd have made an excellent pharmacist rather than just a tech but poor girls don't go to pharmacy school...), but even as "just" a tech I can still help save lives. What about you? What will you do with your Promethean IQ?
-- I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
See subject: You're too stupid to poor piss out of a boot.
I am God's gift to rotten bastards like you. My IQ is over 200 & that's why shitweasels like you wish you were me. I am good at everything & you keep failing like the chattering "ne'er-do-well" fakename that you are.
That's not "our" Runaway. Note the 1488 (the 14 words + HH, two of the 8th letter of the alphabet). I don't think probably-not-apk intended to expose himself like this, but it's very interesting to know probably-not-apk and this fuckstick are the same person.
-- I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
They don't, really, but the real Runaway most definitely has the 14 words memorized :) He kind of let it slip...over and over...over the last few years. There's that giant rant of his where he says he wants to see "50 million dead progressives" so his "grandkids won't be third-class citizens to make brown and black people happy." And there's the numerous times he's outright stated his fears over Hispanics outbreeding "us" (who's "us," buddy?).
-- I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
Yup. Mine's a hair over 160* and it's at best a mixed blessing. For all the shit it makes easier, it makes some really important things a lot more difficult.
Better examples for INT vs WIS: Richard Nixon and Edith Bunker. Both of them had a high score in only one of the two.
*Or a hair under 140 if you come over to my house, wake me up after four hours of sleep, and tell me you need me to take one RIGHT NOW for a psych class you have later that morning, and then proceed to try to get me to think or give a shit about your questions before my morning coffee is even done brewing.
If yours is actually over 160 then yes, that makes you a perfect example of what I mean. My problem is CHA is my dump stat. Yours is that everything *not* INT is your dump stat, save for the STR grinding you've done.
...why am I talking like this? I've never even played a tabletop game before.
-- I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
You kidding? My stats look like I rerolled 1s, 2s, and 3s. Best six of twelve rolls, put them wherever you like. CON is my dump stat. I don't expect it would be above 12. Everything else is 15 or better.
Our schools routinely tested for IQ, 3rd grade, 5th grade, and 8th grade. I kinda figure that boomers have some basis on which to claim an IQ, however high or low. They may be lying, or they may not be lying, but they probably know where they ranked on at least a couple IQ tests.
Or, maybe my school system was unique in testing so frequently.
The shrinks were what happens when you're a kid that goes to public schools with an IQ over twice as far from average as average is from retarded. School is hard as fuck to tolerate when you get bored, learn the materials you're supposed to be covering over the next month in an evening, and have nothing to do in class but sit and stare until everyone catches up.
When I was in grade school, yes. My mother was not supposed to tell me the results (for whatever reason the authorities thought valid at the time) but she did tell me it was 140. When I took the mensa tests (three of them) the numbers varied widely. No longer remember the exact numbers, but one of them was near 140 and another was over 160. Don't know how accurate any of these numbers are (or what they nmeasure) but the wide variation suggests they aren't very precise.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @05:38AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday April 13 2021, @05:38AM (#1136877)
That should be "I am in Mensa". Turn in your card now, sir.
LOL, jk; and I get why people would give you shit over this;
but I can see why you might still want to join, although I wonder
if it is what it used to be.
The only member I never knew was up there in years, and passed
away. It seemed like a good social outlet that formed for some people
back before the Internet was readily available. They'd have meet-ups
and stuff.
If that's what you plan to get out of it, then great. He probably
met some interesting people there; but if it's just for bragging
rights I'd say screw it.
When they measured me, I was very "lumpy". My math skills are below average, but my linguistic skills were described as "very rare". Overall, with the poor math and my severe aphantasia, I scored 121 in the most recent test, barely above average. So in this crowd, I'm a smoothbrain. Yay.
-- "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by drussell on Monday April 12 2021, @07:48PM (5 children)
Isn't bragging about your intellectual prowess grounds for immediate expulsion?
(Score: 2, Funny) by melyan on Monday April 12 2021, @07:51PM (1 child)
From SN or mensa?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @05:32PM
Should be for both.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday April 12 2021, @10:42PM
No point, it probably doesn't matter much [dilbert.com] either way.
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:36PM
Nah, it's not Fight Club.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:20PM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday April 12 2021, @09:34PM (23 children)
I did the admission test in 1988. As a joke.
Someone just brought it to me on papers because of a certain sci-fi book we previously discussed. The main motive in said book was a hierarchy of stages of genii, with some funny hyperlogical conclusions, like: a genius of order n can recognize as a genius only lower genii, equal to himself order genii and genii of order n+1, but any n+2 and higher order genius is so genial he cannot be accepted as a genius by mere order n genius. (This reasoning has strong consequences for both problems of artificial entities construction and civilizations distribution in universe, but let's not dig too deep into this now.)
My result was kind of "exceeded the range of measurability" for this admission test (just 100% logical problems solved, nothing special) and I received a letter summoning me urgently to the local Mensa office.
Though I never considered myself a genius. I knew several people much smarter than I, too. Playing chess or go or doing some math or write assembly code is a good rough metric for such sorting. Me realizing not being a genius means I recognize myself only a genius of order 0, normal human.
Now comes the real situation problem: if the test designed by Mensa had been purposed for lookup for some genius order m higher than my own genius order, I would not make it. But I did, so it was not (existential proof).
So, I deduced if those genial people at Mensa of some geniality order (n) are actually considering me (proof by letter) being an equal or higher genius (n+1) by definition of geniality hierarchy they are either normal (0) as me, while certainly not much smarter than me (m>=n+2) seeking for smarter than me, nor the little bit smarter smarter than me (they at order 1, for I would fail some of their tests at least in this case), or perhaps they are not even as smart as I am, then because if n+1=0 then n=-1 and conclusively, their collective order of geniality is actually negative.
So, after receiving the summoning letter, I lost immediately interest in such imaginary organization and never contacted them.
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 1) by melyan on Monday April 12 2021, @09:36PM (21 children)
That's a lot of words to say your ego was too afraid to take the Mensa test.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday April 12 2021, @10:00PM (14 children)
I feel just fine at my absolute IQ >160. No offence.
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 1) by melyan on Monday April 12 2021, @10:08PM (13 children)
My IQ is > 132--mensa didn't give a value, just a pass. Your IQ is unknown until you take a test. No offense.
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday April 12 2021, @10:19PM (12 children)
Your current tests are much weaker than those in 1988 then.
160 was a valuation for a complete admission test, in this country, in 80's.
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 1) by melyan on Monday April 12 2021, @10:30PM (8 children)
Mensa is top 2%. Did you take an official, timed exam that said you are in the top 2%? I did. It was fairly easy, and I'm probably in the top 1024 on the planet in IQ.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @11:44PM (1 child)
Come on. We all know you joined "meesa" - the Jar Jar Binks fanclub.
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Tuesday April 13 2021, @07:55AM
https://i.imgur.com/5Ixnmdn.png [imgur.com]
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:19AM (4 children)
I think you suffer from delusions of adequacy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:52AM (3 children)
(Score: 1) by melyan on Tuesday April 13 2021, @03:20AM (2 children)
Pregnancy tests?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:23PM (1 child)
(Score: 1) by melyan on Wednesday April 14 2021, @12:11AM
Don't worry--your mom is at work on the incel problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:54AM
Yet you hang around here and expect people to clap for you.
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:40PM (2 children)
Different approved tests give reliably different scores. The two major ones used by head shrinkers give results over ten points different for the same individual.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:18PM (1 child)
Have no reason to doubt it, but would love to see attribution.
Relatedly (and only from memory -- sorry no links), I recall reading that the same person taking the same test but on different days (unsure of time separation) can also vary just as much.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 14 2021, @03:43AM
Check mensa's site. They list two different professionally administered tests last I looked and give different minimum scores for each for this reason. You can follow the rabbit hole as far as you like from there.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @11:43PM (5 children)
Why would someone who claims to have no ego take the Mensa test and announce the results?
(Score: 1) by melyan on Monday April 12 2021, @11:48PM (4 children)
I took the mensa test to see if I'm in the top 2%. I announced it to inform people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:21AM
And what are we supposed to do with that information? Bow down to your <sarcasm>rarified intellect</sarcasm>?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:56AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:30PM (1 child)
In other words, you were demonstrably wrong both on your claim to have no ego and to be a genius. Way to go, “genius”.
Anyone of evern average intellect could have predicted that you would be called to account for this bs. You’ve just marked yourself as an internet moron.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @07:20PM
And, genius that I am, I'm going to predict that no one was surprised. So, what's my prize? What did I win?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:49AM
Mensa is faux king joke.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @09:55PM
Que pasa, baby?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @10:50PM (4 children)
Someone once suggested I join Mensa since my SAT and GRE scores automatically qualified me.
I then figured the "smart" move was _not_ to pay somebody to certify that I was smart.
Now, forty years later, check this out: Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.
--
Someone please explain to Hemo that my AC posts never get moderated because no one understands them. He is cruel to blame the dullards for dullness.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @11:28PM
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:53AM (1 child)
In my callow youth, I did join Mensa, as both my SAT and ACT scores qualified me to join. I went to a party held by the local group. To let you know my level of social awkwardness and introvertedness, I showed up on time.
I learned a valuable lesson that night. Only the extroverted folks go to the parties. I let some blowhard that everyone else was obviously trying to avoid, "corner" me and tell me all about his physics experiments at his department at the local university. That way I didn't need to try to come up with something to say; throwing a question at this guy occasionally was all that was required to keep his verbal flow going.
I did leave early, though. I didn't renew my membership the next year.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @07:30PM
Congratulations! It appears you really are a genius.
(Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Tuesday April 13 2021, @02:52AM
As a participation trophy, please accept a +1 Insightful.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:53AM (4 children)
99.6 percent of geniuses aren’t stupid enough to pay to be a member of a totally useless organization.
So you’re in the lowest o.4% - way to go “genius”.
The only question is “why?” Insecurity? Not smart enough to research this bullshit group? Don’t have a life so you never developed the skills to socialize with “normies?” Or maybe you have more money than brains (there’s a lot of that going around)? Sure, it’s not much money, but it would have been better invested in beer and pizza for people around you.
Let me guess - you think you’ll meet someone who can appreciate you for your brains. Hahaha. So sad.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Magic Oddball on Tuesday April 13 2021, @08:18AM (3 children)
To paraphrase a good friend back in college: "Mensa's for insecure people who can't brag that they attended a top university."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:35PM
Always ask “que bono”? It will keep you out of clubs, multi-level marketing scams, and organizations like Mensa and the Republican Party.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:49PM
I knew someone who joined Mensa. They had previously been found not criminally responsible for patricide. I wonder just how many losers join because that’s the only place they fit in, and how many have serious underlying pathologies that would be obvious in a normal environment.
I wonder, but not enough to do any sort of informal research - you never know what will set them off.
(Score: 1) by melyan on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:03AM
I attended to your mom last night.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:17AM (21 children)
Mine is apparently 145. And so what? That and $2 will get me on the NFTA Metro (well, I have a monthly pass, but you know).
Intelligence is only half of the equation. High INT is when you know tomatoes are technically a berry; high WIS is when you know that they don't go in a fruit salad.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @02:02AM (1 child)
Mind you, sweet cherry tomatoes might make an interesting addition? I thought mayonnaise in French fries would be gross, but I love it. Sometimes you have to try something different and take it on trust when someone says it’s good. Like the first person to eat lobster or snails.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @02:40AM
Next -- try peanut butter on sweet pepper slices. Mmmmm!
----
College GF later joined Mensa for awhile. We kept in touch occasionally and she mentioned that the meetings she went to were all about hooking up. Not much intelligence in evidence.
(Score: 1) by melyan on Tuesday April 13 2021, @03:15AM (7 children)
You think your IQ is 145. Why?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 13 2021, @11:41AM (6 children)
Apparently my SAT and GRE scores correspond to an IQ of 145. Non-rigorous tests I've taken show higher numbers but I don't trust them.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by melyan on Tuesday April 13 2021, @08:13PM (5 children)
My old SAT (awhile back) puts me at better than 99.9% (triple nine society). Look it up--you might be near that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @11:01PM (4 children)
(Score: 1) by melyan on Tuesday April 13 2021, @11:38PM (3 children)
I'm going to take the Miller Analogy Test. I expect to be in Prometheus.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 14 2021, @12:55AM (2 children)
Okay, but...what will you *do* with this superior intellect of yours? What positive difference have you made in the world thus far, and how much did your gigantic pulsing exposed neocortex have to do with it?
I never got to do much with mine, but it's made me a damn good pharmacy worker. It's good for picking up on how to do the job quickly and how to keep sterility and safety in the IV room. But you know what's more important than IQ for that? Good will, keeping myself slim and speedy, and a good heart. The high IQ helps but it's nowhere near even the top of the list. And yet, this is how I do good in the world. There are better people than me with perfectly average or even below-normal IQs. There are better people than me in third-world countries who every day do their best to help their families and villages. Intelligence is not the whole story.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by melyan on Wednesday April 14 2021, @01:12AM (1 child)
I think you are lying to yourself about your IQ. When was your SAT and GRE taken? They ceased to function for IQ tests around the 2000's.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 14 2021, @12:12PM
It's getting to be a while ago now. I'm class of 2006 in high school, so 2005? I do know it's before they added the essay requirement to the SAT. GRE would have been a few years later of course.
Why does your IQ matter to you so much, though? I have to ask, again, what are you *doing* with this superior intellect of yours? Remember, to whom much is given, of that person much is expected. If you are truly this intelligent, you have an obligation to do something good with it, more than someone with just an average IQ. Circumstances might prevent you from reaching your full potential (Madokami knows I'd have made an excellent pharmacist rather than just a tech but poor girls don't go to pharmacy school...), but even as "just" a tech I can still help save lives. What about you? What will you do with your Promethean IQ?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @04:39AM
Mine is apparently 145.
Mine's 14.5, what's your excuse?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Runaway1488 on Tuesday April 13 2021, @11:28AM (6 children)
See subject: You're too stupid to poor piss out of a boot.
I am God's gift to rotten bastards like you. My IQ is over 200 & that's why shitweasels like you wish you were me. I am good at everything & you keep failing like the chattering "ne'er-do-well" fakename that you are.
APK
P.S.=> Fuck you... apk
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:20PM (5 children)
Boy, you're a dumb motherfucker, ain'tcha? Forgot you were logged in?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @07:39PM (1 child)
So, the little runaway is the shitweasel posting as APK? I should have known!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 14 2021, @12:49AM
That's not "our" Runaway. Note the 1488 (the 14 words + HH, two of the 8th letter of the alphabet). I don't think probably-not-apk intended to expose himself like this, but it's very interesting to know probably-not-apk and this fuckstick are the same person.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Wednesday April 14 2021, @12:07AM (2 children)
That's Runaway1488, a troll account. I don't think the real runaway1956 is APK.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:41AM (1 child)
Yeah, I can see that now. Thanks for pointing it out. Funny, though, the two of them have the same..ummmm...posting style.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 14 2021, @12:18PM
They don't, really, but the real Runaway most definitely has the 14 words memorized :) He kind of let it slip...over and over...over the last few years. There's that giant rant of his where he says he wants to see "50 million dead progressives" so his "grandkids won't be third-class citizens to make brown and black people happy." And there's the numerous times he's outright stated his fears over Hispanics outbreeding "us" (who's "us," buddy?).
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:53PM (2 children)
Yup. Mine's a hair over 160* and it's at best a mixed blessing. For all the shit it makes easier, it makes some really important things a lot more difficult.
Better examples for INT vs WIS: Richard Nixon and Edith Bunker. Both of them had a high score in only one of the two.
*Or a hair under 140 if you come over to my house, wake me up after four hours of sleep, and tell me you need me to take one RIGHT NOW for a psych class you have later that morning, and then proceed to try to get me to think or give a shit about your questions before my morning coffee is even done brewing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:04PM (1 child)
If yours is actually over 160 then yes, that makes you a perfect example of what I mean. My problem is CHA is my dump stat. Yours is that everything *not* INT is your dump stat, save for the STR grinding you've done.
...why am I talking like this? I've never even played a tabletop game before.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 14 2021, @03:58AM
You kidding? My stats look like I rerolled 1s, 2s, and 3s. Best six of twelve rolls, put them wherever you like. CON is my dump stat. I don't expect it would be above 12. Everything else is 15 or better.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday April 13 2021, @04:07AM (14 children)
I passed the test sometime in the 70's. Never bothered to join after that.
(Score: 1) by melyan on Tuesday April 13 2021, @04:11AM (13 children)
Did you ever get your iq directly measured?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 13 2021, @05:02AM (6 children)
Our schools routinely tested for IQ, 3rd grade, 5th grade, and 8th grade. I kinda figure that boomers have some basis on which to claim an IQ, however high or low. They may be lying, or they may not be lying, but they probably know where they ranked on at least a couple IQ tests.
Or, maybe my school system was unique in testing so frequently.
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:58PM (5 children)
I got all mine from shrinks. Alls we got in school were standardized "achievement tests".
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @06:02PM (1 child)
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 14 2021, @04:05AM
Only the best kinds. Good times...
The shrinks were what happens when you're a kid that goes to public schools with an IQ over twice as far from average as average is from retarded. School is hard as fuck to tolerate when you get bored, learn the materials you're supposed to be covering over the next month in an evening, and have nothing to do in class but sit and stare until everyone catches up.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Funny) by melyan on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:00AM (2 children)
Your dad shrinks too fast. That's what your mom said.
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 14 2021, @04:06AM (1 child)
I'd have modded that +1 Funny but it wasn't funny enough to get there on its merits and wasn't lame enough to get there via the Dad Joke route.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 14 2021, @12:21PM
I modded it Funny because we all know the reason you didn't is he said it to you instead of someone else :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday April 13 2021, @05:20PM (5 children)
When I was in grade school, yes. My mother was not supposed to tell me the results (for whatever reason the authorities thought valid at the time) but she did tell me it was 140.
When I took the mensa tests (three of them) the numbers varied widely. No longer remember the exact numbers, but one of them was near 140 and another was over 160. Don't know how accurate any of these numbers are (or what they nmeasure) but the wide variation suggests they aren't very precise.
(Score: 1) by melyan on Tuesday April 13 2021, @08:17PM (1 child)
When did you take those mensa tests?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @11:11PM
(Score: 1) by melyan on Wednesday April 14 2021, @01:14AM (2 children)
Mensa did not give IQ numbers after 2001 (including me, 2021), only pass fail. Great way to catch liars. Your raw IQ probably declined given your age.
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 14 2021, @04:09AM (1 child)
Not everyone here was still a twinkle in daddy's eye last century. Quite a lot of us were going about the business of adulting.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by melyan on Wednesday April 14 2021, @04:42AM
That's your mom's business name. Adulting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @05:38AM
That should be "I am in Mensa". Turn in your card now, sir.
LOL, jk; and I get why people would give you shit over this; but I can see why you might still want to join, although I wonder if it is what it used to be.
The only member I never knew was up there in years, and passed away. It seemed like a good social outlet that formed for some people back before the Internet was readily available. They'd have meet-ups and stuff.
If that's what you plan to get out of it, then great. He probably met some interesting people there; but if it's just for bragging rights I'd say screw it.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Subsentient on Tuesday April 13 2021, @08:06AM (2 children)
When they measured me, I was very "lumpy". My math skills are below average, but my linguistic skills were described as "very rare". Overall, with the poor math and my severe aphantasia, I scored 121 in the most recent test, barely above average. So in this crowd, I'm a smoothbrain. Yay.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 1) by melyan on Wednesday April 14 2021, @01:56AM (1 child)
That's what my mom said about you.
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:12AM
Yeah, it's all the infected warts all over my enormous cock. Makes for a bumpy ride.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:34PM (7 children)
I look forward to your upcoming SN story submissions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @07:27PM (3 children)
Indeed. You would think that with all that (supposed) intellect he would have something interesting to contribute here on SN.
(Score: 1) by melyan on Tuesday April 13 2021, @10:29PM (2 children)
I'm not a "he".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @11:08PM (1 child)
Show bobs and vagene.
(Score: 1) by melyan on Wednesday April 14 2021, @12:20AM
That's what I told your mom four nights ago.
(Score: 1) by melyan on Tuesday April 13 2021, @08:10PM (2 children)
so does your mom.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @08:52PM (1 child)
Boooop, used that line previously. Mom jokes don't recycle very well.
(Score: 1) by melyan on Tuesday April 13 2021, @09:52PM
your mom recycles very well.