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From: mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Any Mensans?
Message-ID: <40@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 00:03:56 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  3 00:03:56 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 05:22:49 EST
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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>> What are the qualification requirements?

To get in you have to prove you have an IQ in the top 2% (98th percentile).
This is usually about 130 on standard IQ tests, 1250 on the SAT, etc.  There
was a discussion of IQ scores in net.misc a couple of months ago which gave 
more information on Mensa requirements.

If you haven't taken an IQ test they'll give you one.  First they send out a
simple home test, and when you pass that (I wonder if this one actually weeds
anyone out) they send you off to take a real one.  

I joined when I was in high school and dropped out a couple of years ago
because of local politics.  Too many people were interested in power and too
few in having fun.  I'm sure it's a syndrome that affects all groups
eventually.  For me, at least, it was the local group that made or broke it;
I didn't go to very many of the national gatherings, and it's the local
people you see several times a month if you're active anyway.  I also
considered the local publications (ameteurish though they were) to be much
more interesting than the national ones (minor exception: there were a couple
columnists in the national newsletter who were very funny).

						-D

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