How do you know if someone is a part of Mensa?
Don’t worry, they’ll let you know. Repeatedly.
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
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Or people who like making jokes about them.
Guinness records and IQ tests - both seem unreliable to me
Yeah its all pure wank
“The biggest benefit to Mensa is the community,” Jason McNabb said to Guinness.
The biggest drawback of Mensa is the community.
IQ is relative to age, a 100 is standard for your age. The minimum to join mensa is 132... but that would mean she has the standard intelligence of a ~3-year-old. That's good for a 2 year old but not exactly what you'd think of when you think about how smart Mensa members are.
She can spell at 2 and a half and do math. That's a bit better than most 3 and 4 year olds.
Meaning she's likely well beyond the Mensa minimum
But has she developed the prerequisite overinflated ego?
I recommend the podcast “My year in Mensa”. Crazy cult like
I thought you said her podcast, as in the kid in the story and was like, damn she's so smart she's already doing tell all about Mensa..
This really puts a lot of pressure on this girl as she gets older. Seems unwise to make such a big deal about it.
Hm. I could read at like 2 and a half years. I could even read text rotated upside down (though I'm not sure it was at that age but it was when I was in daycare) and I have a couple funny stories involving that.
However I would now consider myself a fairly averagely intelligent guy compared to the other people in my CS classes. Much can change in that time.
So to best support Isla, the McNabbs enrolled Isla in Mensa, hoping to connect with other similarly situated parents who could share some information with them.
If they think it helps, I suppose. Still feels to me like this could easily go wrong and be a good way to drive the kid to burnout because of the expectations. But maybe I just have a bias against Mensa, because all talk about them that I hear seems to be negative. The media attention certainly doesn't help in any case.
I met someone while I was in university who started in mansa as a young kid. Very proud of it, told everyone often. Once told me he discovered pockets and how proud he was of himself. Informed me red trucks always drive dangerously; no other color, no other car, but he saw a red truck drive dangerously once and joining mensa is all about pattern recognition. I'm not sure he knew what the word "pattern" means. Told me he had to argue with his teachers that he deserves a better grade on a project he cheated on because he couldn't finish it by himself, but he got the better grade in the end because he deserves it and he is smart. I feel like he is a decent representative of mensa community.
That’s great, can we have healthcare now?
No.
That is great to see for her.
I’d rather be in Densea.