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Originally posted by SproutKY
Originally posted by Phage
Anyone notice a bit of...um...bitterness...in these posts.
Come on...fess up...who applied and didn't make it?
Or, possibly worse, who is a member?
I was a member until I stopped showing up and paying dues. It's really not what it's built up to be, pretty boring. Just a bunch of people talking about being better than other people. Serves no purpose in my opinion.
Originally posted by SourGrapes
I think it's funny how every time I see an IQ or Mensa thread, the majority of responses are about the poster's own IQ - which, btw, is ALWAYS at, or near, genius level. It's as if people see the topic and immediately have to come up with something to respond, just so they could include just how intelligent they are.
I won't include my own IQ, so not to be a hypocrite. lol
Anyway, carry on.
Originally posted by jimmyx
after 60 years of life, i have learned that it's not the intellect, but, the "passion" for which you are engaged in.
Originally posted by AwakeinNM
Originally posted by SproutKY
I was a member until I stopped showing up and paying dues. It's really not what it's built up to be, pretty boring. Just a bunch of people talking about being better than other people. Serves no purpose in my opinion.
Kinda like the democratic national convention?
Heyooo.
Do you think someone is going to post this kind of response:
"My IQ is 83, but I can make a mean scrambled egg's."
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by Creep Thumper
No difference from what?
What do you mean?
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by HomoSapiensSapiens
I think the term is "pegged". Like when the tachometer hits the peg that keeps it from going any higher.
But who the hell really cares? Beyond a certain (and not really high) level any "intelligence testing" really doesn't indicate much of anything. There are those who go far beyond their tested "potential" and those who get nowhere near it in terms of performance. That's a matter of... disposition?...more than "intelligence".
edit on 2/12/2013 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Pardon me for asking but how do you know that?
Because you aren't one of them (geniuses).
Originally posted by HomoSapiensSapiens
I'd be interested if anybody could answer this:
In other words, how is it that people like Kim Ung-Yong supposedly have an IQ of 210 and whatnot?
Originally posted by HomoSapiensSapiens
reply to post by chr0naut
You are the second person (albeit the first being on a completely different forum) to mistake this Kim, with the Dear Leader of North Korea. The difference is that the Kim at hand, is a South Korean Physics/Engineering heavyweight, not Kim Jong-Un, leader of North Korea.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by Creep Thumper
Pardon me for asking but how do you know that?
Because you aren't one of them (geniuses).
But you missed the point of my post. It had to do with performance. It said nothing about "differences".
www.mitpressjournals.org...
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Originally posted by HomoSapiensSapiens
OK, so the Mensa sites says that an adult can only score a maximum of 161 on the Cattell III B test.
But what if the person were much cleverer than that? Is there no other test to measure beyond 161? Or will it just be so off the charts and away from the norm (i.e. no scale) that it would be irrelevant?
Originally posted by jiggerj
Originally posted by HomoSapiensSapiens
OK, so the Mensa sites says that an adult can only score a maximum of 161 on the Cattell III B test.
But what if the person were much cleverer than that? Is there no other test to measure beyond 161? Or will it just be so off the charts and away from the norm (i.e. no scale) that it would be irrelevant?
What we need is a 'Stupid' test to make the stupid people wake the hell up to the fact that they're really stupid.