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In Spanish slang, Mensa literally means stupid.

Regardless, the really smart people never let you know how smart they are. Offen times. Dey ac retarded on purposeful so u wunt suspek dem

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I was in a few gifted classes throughout my school years and even skipped a grade, but never joined any clubs. Most of the kids were insufferable shits and I can't imagine they made for adults that were any better.

The difference between them and me was that I felt stupid, still feel stupid, and know I'm pretty stupid. Mensa should be renamed to "The Dunning-Kruger Club".

Edit: Speaking of gifted class programs, do those still exist, or is all public education now special ed?

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The smartest people I know aren't confident in their own intelligence. Wisdom is better, but that's an acquired, rather than intrinsic, trait

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"I know that I know nothing" meant that intelligence should be tempered with humility.

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Most of being smart is simply knowing what you are dumb at.

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Wisdom is knowledge applied. People full of selfdoubt never do anything. They get hungup on details but there's never a best time to do anything.

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most schools call them extended learning programs

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Gifted classes still exist. Some of the kids who come out of them are really useful adults.

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They have something called AP classes here.

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They called them that in HS, but not in the earlier grades for us.

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No

Waste of time

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this. You’re smarter NOT paying the $40 a year to be part of it. Not that all of them are liberal board game loving quirky to a fault socially awkward introverts, but enough are that it spoils the flavor.

If you want to be around smart people, create things. Invent, build, dream. You will find each other.

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Yeah, im on the various sig groups and in the past few years liberals have taken over. They are actually pushing to change requirements to let more minorities in, for instance substituting IQ tests for college GPA or whether someone is a grad student. Mensa will be dead in a few decades.

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Colleges have turned into diversity jokes, real education is dead.
As for the liberals taking over, they are so full of themselves true discussion and debate is no longer possible. It interferes with their worldview that is more a religious belief system than proper education.

Sad really.

There are pockets of interesting highly intelligent people in the world, I found one and it’s nice to have a circle of peers and friends again. My last place I could have thrown my whole contact list away and not missed it. At one point in a different place, I was surrounded by friends with mostly phds and half of them were high functioning tards with most everything except their specialty. True intelligence is the ability to solve problems, think both logically and abstractly, able to constantly learn more, understand the keys to their own happiness.

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Isn't there supposed to be a million dollar grant if you get in?

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No, that's the MacArthur Genius Grant.

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Thanks! Informative comments are so rare these days.

I looked it up to what it takes to get that and found these videos. What an absolute joke. They probably amassed hundreds of millions in donations from people who truly believe that there are diamonds in the rough who can change the world if only given the resources. Only to turn it into a social justice giveaway. What a travesty.

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the one in NYC in the 80's was all about one night stands

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Yup. In the 70s especially. They also did swingers parties.

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The only people who join Mensa are people who want other people to know they're in Mensa, and doing things expressly for the purpose of having others know you did them has to be the height of stupidity. See: The Tide Pod Challenge, The Milk Crate Challenge, etc.

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I got to pay money to call myself smart and get a cheap paper newsletter

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Good chess competition. Conversation tended to be very liberal but technically interesting. Didn't keep up and eventually just stopped going.

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The hookup culture. And a free can cozy.

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What does the cozy say?

Hoping not......you know.

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Has anyone from Mensa ever actually done anything?

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2%. Yeah, that's 150 million people. That isn't special.

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2%. Yeah, that's 150 million NON-BLACK NON-HISPANIC people

there are other far more exclusive "proven IQ" groups.

All tend to collect enough autistic under-employed that they cause too many new high IQ members to flee

The good thing about mensa is that its at least a threshold people can use, even if its a little too open a club (so that some women can join)

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Real IQ or those fake pattern recognition tests? The Mensa tests are almost entirely based on recognizing geometric patterns, which is a small component of IQ. Last time I looked there were no tests of logic, memory, knowledge, or abstract pattern recognition. They are purposefully weeding out intelligent people whose primary intelligence isn't solving meaningless puzzles.

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You obviously don't understand what IQ is. Puzzle solving ability IS IQ. It was never supposed to encapsulate every function of the brain to give a "you're this smart" number.

It gained prominence because, of all the different tests that claimed to measure intelligence, it was uniquely able to make accurate predictions of success and was repeatable and stable. IQ proved itself through testing to be the most important measurable factor of intelligence.

You obviously think IQ is just a fancy word substitute for smart and smart is something everyone can define in thier own way to suit thier ego.

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I found meetings dull and full of people who didn't get things done. I thought I'd mentor kids but their program was non-functioning. My buddy was single and joined the singles sig. He found a tremendous gal and they married. He got something from it.

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No. They want money for a bumper sticker

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