So I just got into Mensa How much of a meme is Mensa?

>>8982012
100% meme.

Top meme

I'm also in Mensa, thought it would be some super 1337 club with secret buildings in every city but they got nothing other than a website, overpriced store and magazine that often doesn't get delivered

Isn't Mensa discriminatory?
Racist and sexist, even?

>>8982012
nah, looks great on a CV, I'd make sure to mention it if I were you

>>8982068
They discriminate based on IQ, so in that case they are discriminatory

My grandfather is in mensa so I must be too

>>8982012
100% meme

Also autistic af

>>8982012
I was in the bluegrass chapter for a few years until I let my annual dues slip. I always thought it would be a good way to network with people, but it isn't. Every now and then you get a newsletter with random events and gatherings which no one ever attends. Everyone is also on a high-horse because they got in, often talking down to people which is off putting.

If you have a free ~70 dollars a year to pay dues, go ahead and join otherwise its a bit of a waste imo.

Assuming you took the supervised Mensa test, what was your score, OP?

Mine was 141 (143 on the culture fair portion).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-pAWbqdyuY
see for yourself

>>8982173
Can you really shift the blame on everyone else, if you did never attend those gatherings. I live in a remote place so it never made sense for me to go, and I do agree that the few people I met within the organization, had a relatively large portion of people who was a bit full of them selves. But not all. I wish I had tried harder to find friends within the group, I know I could have found some good people. I originally took the test to prove to myself that I was below average, lo and behold I got in. I think it is a meme to talk about it. But there is no reason why you could not have a good experience within mensa.

>>8982236
>Culture fair portion
Explain please

>>8982744
The cultural portion is probably the linguistic (ie. define a word) or general knowledge sections you can find in the WAIS-IV or other general IQ tests.

>>8982744
I think they are referring to a test that has normal questions that test common knowledge. The new test I took was all logic puzzles. But I remember taking a different kind of intelligence test in the mid nineties (not mensa related) that had plenty of questions gauging the extent of a persons knowledge base. Best to my knowledge mensa has used a similar test at some point. These tests are culturally biased, since familiarity with facts is needed, and also a good vocabulary. They are however not completely useless in detecting intelligence, but pure logic tests are imho more accurate.