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Mensa - Lets Get It Straight......
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On this thread people who would never get into Mensa seem to claim they could but didn't because it has annual subs:
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Mensa is a club the subs are not just for "bragging rights" you can be as involved as little or as much as you want. We have SIGs gatherings, Mensans are like masons we can look each other up in foreign countries, different towns. Often get free accommodation. There are social events every month all over the world, there are 50+ in my region alone in January. Many of you are in other clubs that pay subs you may have similar benefits or just are happy with what your club does. I get tired of people who could not get in if they tried, posting bile about what is basically just another club. PS the monthly magazine alone is worth the subs.
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Mensa is a club the subs are not just for "bragging rights" you can be as involved as little or as much as you want. We have SIGs gatherings, Mensans are like masons we can look each other up in foreign countries, different towns. Often get free accommodation. There are social events every month all over the world, there are 50+ in my region alone in January. Many of you are in other clubs that pay subs you may have similar benefits or just are happy with what your club does. I get tired of people who could not get in if they tried, posting bile about what is basically just another club. PS the monthly magazine alone is worth the subs.
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I tried to join MENSA, I sat the exam, but failed, I can't think why, here's my exam paper;
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It's not just IQ, it's the additional aspect of brain function that enables you to apply it. Some people score incredibly well but would not by any measure be seen as above average intelligence, others may be adept at problem solving for example because they have a brain that works that way and be seen as extremely intelligent.. Others may score high in the numeric tests but fail in logical reasoning or verbal skills. No account is made of the newer aspects of intelligence that have been researched in recent years for example emotional intelligence, neither do tests compensate for the extremes found for example within those on the autism spectrum.
Some people score incredibly well but would not by any measure be seen as above average intelligence,
and so we can see immediately that the test is a social construct. it tests nothing beside how well you do in the test.
my nephew did badly in Cambridge Maths finals and commented that it measured whether you were good at Final exams or not. He wasnt. He COULD be right as the French supply far more top class mathematicians ( measured by new feoremz an fings) than we do.
It is SAID the Cambridge physics class - the results of theoretical ad practical parts are randomly related
and so we can see immediately that the test is a social construct. it tests nothing beside how well you do in the test.
my nephew did badly in Cambridge Maths finals and commented that it measured whether you were good at Final exams or not. He wasnt. He COULD be right as the French supply far more top class mathematicians ( measured by new feoremz an fings) than we do.
It is SAID the Cambridge physics class - the results of theoretical ad practical parts are randomly related
the same IQ as Einstein then
well he didnt do too well at the Hochschule so the point is made - bright but not that successful at school
'They' gave Einsteen , 'Bose' and the equations of relativity are more correctly called Bose-Einstein eqns.
Gladston and Wilson got v high marks in PPE ( course at Oxford - one 1870, one (uvva, sozza) 1925) - wilson I wdnt say was that successful
so being good at PPE doesnt mean you are a good PM. Obvious. I dont regard this sort of conclusiong as er rocket science
well he didnt do too well at the Hochschule so the point is made - bright but not that successful at school
'They' gave Einsteen , 'Bose' and the equations of relativity are more correctly called Bose-Einstein eqns.
Gladston and Wilson got v high marks in PPE ( course at Oxford - one 1870, one (uvva, sozza) 1925) - wilson I wdnt say was that successful
so being good at PPE doesnt mean you are a good PM. Obvious. I dont regard this sort of conclusiong as er rocket science
Woy - Woy Jenkins ( PPE oxon) first of course, who did the German codes at Bletchley 1940-5 and then was a politician, didnt attend lectures in his final year.
He hired someone to teach him how to do ( hone perfect) finals essays - and was successful
Other later hissed: he concentrated on first class presentation of material - ( first class - geddit?)
He hired someone to teach him how to do ( hone perfect) finals essays - and was successful
Other later hissed: he concentrated on first class presentation of material - ( first class - geddit?)
Socio linguistics was huge in the 1980s, I remember all the rabid feminists getting overheated about homocentric,patriarchal language, calling themselves allsorts! Wimmin, wombin, ( sounds like a female wombat!). The truth is most of us found it patronising ( patron... Male term... Couldn't say that back then either unless you were denigrating some poor bloke). How's of us who were in the workplace having to be better than our male colleagues to be considered equal were too bloody busy to give a flying.....
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