I realized that “Mensa” didn’t contain enough numerals to be a phone number, and knew it must be understood that any future member would be able to figure out the next two digits in the sequence. I tried dialling MENSANE, MENSAIL, MENSAFE, and MENSAAB, but got three rebuffs and a fax tone.
From “How I Joined MENSA” by Steve Martin
Monthly emails about gathering with members, a useless plastic card and your ego filled to the brim. Don’t waste your time and money, weed is better.
Same.
The entire concept of mensa always rubbed me the wrong way
It just feels like its only purpose is to be a magnet for narcissists.
You’re supposedly one of the smartest people alive, and yet you somehow concluded that a good use of your limited time on Earth is to blow smoke up your own ass with a group of other pretentious jerkoffs who know how to cheese IQ tests
It just feels like its only purpose is to be a magnet for narcissists.
I’ve seen a few dating profiles near me with women claiming to be in Mensa. I’m glad they mention it, as it’s a dog whistle for me to move on to another profile that will inevitably ignore me because I just don’t stack up.
~That’s meant to be funny.~
I think that’s a red flag, not a dog whistle. the latter is intended by the person publishing it
In Spanish, mensa means stupid. You’d think geniuses would’ve chosen a better acronym
Blame the Romans.
Both words are derived from late Latin mentalis, from Latin mens, ment- ‘mind’.
Thinking one step further: Even if I somehow got into MENSA (unlikely), I can’t imagine ever saying, “I see you have a MENSA discount…” ugh.
Look up Jaime Loftus’ excellent podcast “My Year in MENSA” for an in-depth look at the organization.
Every once in a while (like happened today), my stultophobia/ilithiophobia gets triggered enough, I feel like I need a safe space to hide from it all, with intelligent people, but then I instantly remember, that one aptitude’s a weak measure, and there could be many unwise [and emotionally unintelligent, unethical, etc] people there in MENSA too. And if I get past that to look into it any further, I’m then immediately greeted with the “Oh good grief, no!” of it all. Like the replies to this post provided. Thanks, everybody.
Could qualify. Won’t try.
Also, I’m just barely smart enough to know I’m not smart enough (in general (for life, the universe, and everything), not for MENSA). And it’s daunting that others blind themselves into even bigger dumb by thinking they’re among the very smartest. Just take a look at that boastful guy with the >200 iQ… sound wise? Or sound smugnorant? Not to mention try-hard with a lot for his ego to live up to. May be wise to be like Socrates, and dismiss any invites asserting certainty of being the wisest. It’s good to know one does not know. Good to watch S06E09 of Star Trek Deep Space Nine, and realise the dangerous folly of deluding yourself to be smart [or even worse, the smartest]. A MENSA membership must be a terrible challenge to realising and remember that (for some more than others, and so, damned if you don’t realise, and no point being a member if you do). There’s always more.
Genuinely don’t know if I qualify. I tend to score pretty high on the tests because my brain “gets” the exact kind of logic they usually test. What is more important though is that the tests suck in so many ways that it makes the results basically useless. Also I have yet to meet anyone who brags about their IQ score who happens to be anyone worth knowing.
They’d need to pay me a lot of money to get me to even consider joining Mensa.
Mensa membership is directly correlated to taking online IQ tests.
Truly intelligent people don’t.
the mensa paradox.
people smart enough to get in, are smart enough to know it’s not worth it
Also, “smart” and high IQ are different things.
There’s no way to objectively measure how “smart” someone is, but if you think the bogus test and bogus score developed by eugenic pseudoscientists looking for an excuse to prevent the untermensch from breeding is the objective measure, you are in fact stupid.
i think IQ tests were originally developed to see which school students never to go to the next class, or stay behind, it was meant to see if a student tests as his peers or as his next/previous class peers. the inventor never intended it to be used as a way to measure an intrinsic immutable trait on adults.
https://share.google/TOOJM3X81hSIP0PvP
it was seriously bastardised by racist pseudoscience.
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Wonder how many of those people flunked their interview by mentioning their IQ.
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This is just pathetic and certainly not beating the narcissism claims.
