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Ostronomos
Jun 23, 2018 04:12 PM
Hello,
I am currently looking to write the Mensa test in the area of Toronto and seem to qualify based on a battery of unsupervised untimed tests I've taken. Are there any Mensans here who could tell me what kind of benefits or perks I can expect?
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Magical Realist
Jun 24, 2018 04:42 PM
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Stop feeding your craving for grandiosity. This is off kilter. A man in the presence of Reality is only humble and resolved towards action.
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C C
Jun 24, 2018 05:50 PM
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(Jun 23, 2018 04:12 PM)Ostronomos Wrote: . . . what kind of benefits or perks I can expect?
In terms of contractual constraints, an allowance-type perk is that one is apparently not disqualified from membership with other organizations, like Alcoholics Anonymous: Asia Carrera's Personal Life
Gossip-wise, an ex-porn actress perhaps also indirectly prods the question of what kind of bashes are thrown by the "unfettered via intellect" horndog members: Mensa geniuses partied with porn stars at sexed-up ‘annual gathering’ event. (SUN headlines warning: Actually sounds like it was merely a curiosity symposium about the industry).
More seriously:
Personal list of benefits from a "testing officer":
https://www.quora.com/Why-would-anyone-w...membership
Official account of benefits
http://mensa.org./membership-benefits
Believe It or Not: Mensa’s Religious Quotient (1990, Canada)
https://joycearthur.com/atheismreligion/...-quotient/
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Ostronomos
Jun 24, 2018 07:57 PM
(Jun 24, 2018 05:50 PM)C C Wrote: (Jun 23, 2018 04:12 PM)Ostronomos Wrote: . . . what kind of benefits or perks I can expect?
In terms of contractual constraints, an allowance-type perk is that one is apparently not disqualified from membership with other organizations, like Alcoholics Anonymous: Asia Carrera's Personal Life
Gossip-wise, an ex-porn actress perhaps also indirectly prods the question of what kind of bashes are thrown by the "unfettered via intellect" horndog members: Mensa geniuses partied with porn stars at sexed-up ‘annual gathering’ event. (SUN headlines warning: Actually sounds like it was merely a curiosity symposium about the industry).
More seriously:
Personal list of benefits from a "testing officer":
https://www.quora.com/Why-would-anyone-w...membership
Official account of benefits
http://mensa.org./membership-benefits
Believe It or Not: Mensa’s Religious Quotient (1990, Canada)
https://joycearthur.com/atheismreligion/...-quotient/
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Such lustful attention by members of a grander and more entitled group may be excused at an annual Mensa gathering but not in a public setting thank goodness.
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stryder
Jun 27, 2018 04:03 AM
If memory serves me correct, the initial "test" that MENSA allows you to do unsupervised does require you to full fill it within a specific time, however it's up to you to fullfill the obligation of following the rules of only using the allocated time and not utilising many methods you'd find at your disposal to "cheat".
If you manage to then provide a result that meets the criteria, you'll then be further asked to attend a supervised test. (Just to make sure you didn't cheat). All MENSA appears to equate is to whether you're intelligence fits into a certain marginal percentage. Should you meet that then it just means in your in a club per say. I and a friend did the test back when we were in our early teens, I was a little outside the cut, he was offered another test.
The tests themselves are not much different from an Aptitude test, back when we did them it was actually because of the "puzzles" that they provide that need solving but this was before the internet, search engines and other folly.
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Yazata
Jun 27, 2018 06:38 PM
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(Jun 24, 2018 04:42 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: Stop feeding your craving for grandiosity. This is off kilter. A man in the presence of Reality is only humble and resolved towards action.
I agree with MR! (Scary. For both of us, probably.)
It seems to be that intelligence isn't something that you are, but rather something that you do.
(A great deal of psychological vocabulary can probably be treated that way and shouldn't be reified.)
And while performing well on one of Mensa's tests might be accomplishing something, it seems to me to be a pretty trivial something.
Much better to accomplish bigger, better and more significant things.
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Zinjanthropos
Jun 27, 2018 07:00 PM
I thought Ostro might have aimed higher than MENSA. PROMETHEUS or MEGA societies come to mind. It's an ego stroke.for some.
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Syne
Jun 28, 2018 02:34 AM
Only pseudo-intellectuals (albeit with high enough IQs) care about Mensa. Real intellectuals are already too busy.
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Zinjanthropos
Jun 28, 2018 03:12 AM
(Jun 28, 2018 02:34 AM)Syne Wrote: Only pseudo-intellectuals (albeit with high enough IQs) care about Mensa. Real intellectuals are already too busy.
Answering one's own posts however, is not what I call being 'too busy' .
When I think of all those who live in oppressive regimes, particularly women and those considered of lower class, I imagine an untapped source of potential Mensa members..
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Syne
Jun 28, 2018 04:12 AM
(Jun 28, 2018 03:12 AM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: (Jun 28, 2018 02:34 AM)Syne Wrote: Only pseudo-intellectuals (albeit with high enough IQs) care about Mensa. Real intellectuals are already too busy.
Answering one's own posts however, is not what I call being 'too busy' .
LOL! Nor I. I've thought about mentioning something about people who incessantly talk to themselves, but just couldn't be bothered to interject into the obvious solipsism.
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