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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday April 12 2021, @09:34PM
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.