Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-cad.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-cad!mjc 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 Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-c.40 Posted: Mon Dec 3 00:03:56 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 05:22:49 EST Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 26 >> 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 -- UUCP: ...seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!lll-crg!dragon ARPA: monica.cellio@cmu-cs-cad or dragon@lll-crg