Are you fit for Mensa?

[Creed Malay]

C'mon.

You have to pay to join Mensa, right? So they are a business. So their main concern is making money. How will they make the most money? By admitting only the smartest-two-percent of the population, or by admitting everyone who likes to believe they're in the smartest-two-percent of the population?

Or maybe I'm just cynical.

Davy

[BlackMan890]

By admitting only the smartest-two-percent of the population, or by admitting everyone who likes to believe they're in the smartest-two-percent of the population?

ha i like this one

9/30
and i guessed

[jetxl]

9/30
and i guessed

[joke]maybe that test is accured after all.[/joke]

[shbaz]

You have to pay to join Mensa, right? So they are a business.

No, they are an organisation. You have to pay to join many organisations, because for an organisation to thrive it needs to have meetings, and meetings need to take place somewhere where a lot of people can meet, which costs money. If the organisation ever does anything, then they have to pay for doing whatever it is that they do (be it paying for lobbyists, organized trips, charity, or whatever). Besides, that's a bold statement to make when membership is only 100,000 worldwide and you don't know what the membership fee is ($45 US a year, which isn't that steep in comparison to other organizations. It's about what you'd pay for one month of cell phone service).

A business is a profit seeking venture.

Since scoring in the top 2% of an IQ test is something not many people can do, I really don't see your scenario as valid. Although it might seem like a common thing since so many people in this thread have done well in this small test and real IQ exams, it's not. You need to consider demographic - and this is a community of people who enjoys games made up primarily of puzzles. Puzzles tend to challenge the mind and people who seek them tend to be people who are very intelligent, since they are always challenging and improving their thinking/reasoning skills. The high density of smart people is one of the reasons I really enjoy these forums.

I've been thinking about this some more, and I came to the conclusion that even though IQ tests are a poor measure of brainpower, they are a good measure of intelligence (defining intelligence as an above-average ability to think and reason). That's why there are all of the difficult "find the pattern" problems. They seem to try to avoid some of the western tendancies that DG mentioned in the Mensa test, because according to this website:

Arturo Ilano, UP business administration professor and Mensa Philippines president, said that the test sought to avoid cultural biases that stem from mathematics, reading comprehension and similar types of test.

“A figural reasoning exam is culture-free. People from the Third World countries, for instance, will not be discriminated against, regardless of the kind of education they have had. What matters really is how much you use your brain in your daily activities,” Ilano said.

[dasjoe]

um, i scored something about 23 or something. in this german test i scored 28 of 33, and it's without questions concerning language..

http://81.169.179.189/index.php?id=65

[Gilbert]

25/30 in Mensa test.

[wyr3x]

Mensa means "table."

So, netmonkey too dumb for table.Ã, 

[shbaz]

http://mensa.dk/testiq.html

Harder, non-english language, pattern only test. I made a 121, and apparently it takes a 130 to pass, but I can't read it.

This is probably very close to the real thing, it's timed and while it starts out easy a few are extremely difficult.

[Las unplugged]

My dad was in Mensa once. He quit because they were losers.