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:::: That's a great and edgy opinion to have, but I've sat numerous valid IQ tests and my score on the test Mensa used was completely ballpark with respect to my other results e.g. on WAIS-IV. In addition, my academic performance has been largely commensurate with what my IQ percentile suggests. In general, you can take a look on places like Reddit where people increasingly discuss the correlation between their results on various IQ tests including Mensa's - I'm yet to come across someone who never scored higher than, say, the 95th percentile on practice tests but still made it on the Mensa exam. Almost everyone I've seen discuss their Mensa results on the internet had some prior indication, often in the form of results from previously-sat IQ tests, that they stood a good chance of getting in. Of course this is only anecdotal but on the other hand you've provided no evidence for your point of view. It'd be a big scandal, one that would be easy to test and therefore easy to reveal, if Mensa were misrepresenting the intelligence percentile of tested applicants. I doubt anyone would ever investigate this unless there were some good reason to (all respect to your unsubstantiated opinion), but if they did I highly doubt anything would come of it. '''[[User_talk:Xabian40409|sabine antelope]]''' 02:17, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
:It's entirely self-selected! And while the Dunning-Kruger effect exists, most people aren't ''that'' deluded! If you find yourself much more intelligent than the average person, and life experience tells you this, then you've a fair idea you might do well in an IQ test. If you're ordinary, the opposite applies. Most people aren't intellectuals by nature anyway. It's completely unsurprising that people who take an IQ test to join a high-IQ society are going to have a high IQ! And as for their "racket", you don't have to join. It's a club, they charge fees, many do. If they remove the test in favour of a shape-sorter, you might have a point about their impure money-grubbing. Are you saying their test is rigged? Don't they use one of the widely accepted standard tests? Did you fall out with someone you consider "stupid", and now you see through the whole illusion?
:[[Special:Contributions/84.70.145.70|84.70.145.70]] ([[User talk:84.70.145.70|talk]]) 02:28, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
== Revision wars and neutral POV ==
Unfortunately, it’s been many years since I last went to a meeting, but I’m sure that is still the case. Mensa International will have plenty on the current membership, and a lot more valuable research rather than my individual experience. They’ll fill in the blanks, I’m sure.
[[User:OsmNacht|OsmNacht]] ([[User talk:OsmNacht|talk]]) 18:12, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
:I think they do already have a reputation as a place for oddballs to socialise. Certainly that's what I heard about it. I think other high-IQ oddballs know it's there if they want it, these are their people. You do paint a lovely picture though. Perhaps just a -little- bit precocious with the language but that's certainly not a surprise!
: [[Special:Contributions/84.67.73.190|84.67.73.190]] ([[User talk:84.67.73.190|talk]]) 18:34, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
== Working-class homes ==
The majority of PEOPLE come from working-class homes! Very disappointed in Mr Berrill for not figuring out, therefore, that the greatest proportion of just about anybody will come from the working class! Very disappointed he didn't know better by 1946, and an Aussie as well! They're normally so egalitarian! Still, nice that it came as a smack in the gob for him. And there he was thinking he was in Oxford because he was just BETTER than working-class people! And so was anyone else well-off because society is fair because what sort of just god, being an Englishman, would allow anything else? Really, though! And him with his high IQ!
The other bloke getting pissed off about all the puzzle-solving doesn't surprise me either. This was in the old days. Apparently Mensa meets now are complete hotbeds of sex between autistic weirdoes who can't relate to normal people through the rest of the year.
No, I didn't join, though I qualified to. The sex would have been nice but sadly laziness is a completely different spectrum.
[[Special:Contributions/84.67.73.190|84.67.73.190]] ([[User talk:84.67.73.190|talk]]) 18:41, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
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