On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:43:11 -0600, "CatNipped"
<CatNipped@PossiblePlaces.com> wrote:
>"Aaron" <aaronsan@msn.com> wrote in message
>news:9c4f9308-c878-4c63-8fbf-a53e6e5b79db@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>On Feb 1, 11:26 am, "CatNipped" <CatNip...@PossiblePlaces.com> wrote:
>> I've been busy and haven't been around much - what are you talking about?
>
>IQ test...it's in the "Alternate State of the Union" thread, from
>which Mickey vanished after I suggested he take the same one I did.
>
>In your case, please be aware that it's not because I want/need you to
>prove anything to me...I'm just curious. I know you're in MENSA, and
>what is that, 135+? I just think you're probably one of the higher IQs
>here so I threw your handle in there.
>
>===================================================
>
>I might take it later because I'm still pretty busy right now, but I like
>taking tests.
>
>Regarding IQ tests, you can't go by score alone because they all use
>different numbering scales. You have to go by how you scored in comparison
>to the population in general. For instance, Mensa will accept many
>different IQ test scores as long as you score in the top 2% of the
>population (achieving a score higher than 98% of the population have/would).
>
>In January of 1980 I took the two IQ tests that were then given and required
>for invitation into Mensa, the Cattell Intelligence Test, Scale IIIB and the
>California Test of Mental Maturity (CTMM). I scored 175 on the Cattell and
>150 on the CTMM which put me in the 99.9th percentile (in other words I
>scored higher than 99.9% of the population in general have/would). I
>actually qualified for the Triple Nine Society as well as Mensa, but after
>going to a couple of their meetings I decided that the few members there
>were way too weird for my tastes.
I've found that most very intelligent people are not at all like the
stereotypes. Ifind them to be witty and funny with a great sense of
humor. Marilyn vos Savant pointed this very thing out in one of her
columns in a Sunday newspaper Parade section one week.
I also qualified for Mensa ii in the 1970's, and was also in the top
99.9 percentile. Then in the 1980's, Discovery magazine published a
test that got a lot of press because it was a Mensa IQ test. In it,
you were allowed to use any reference material desired -- and the test
was really in the thought process of how to go about finding answers
to the questions.
For instance,I remember one of the questions was something like this:
"There is a crystalline substance is an upside-down tetrahedron. In
the first layer there is one molecule, in the second layer there are
four molecules, in the third layer there are 16 molecules, etc. If
there are 38 X 10 to the 29th power layers in the crystal, how many
molecules are there?" (There is actually a specific mathematical
formula for calculating this exact problem, and at the time -- pre
internet -- I went to the library and researched for two days to find
the answer to this one!"
Another question, seemingly deceptively simple that I vividly
remember was: "If an event occurs every two years it is considered to
be bi-annual. If an event occurs twice a year it is considered to be
semi-annual. What is an event which occurs every century and a half
considered to be?"
Heh. I didn't even have to look that one up!
This type of IQ test is no longer practical; it's too easy for the
average person to use google to come up with answers!
But anyway, once I took the tests and found what my IQ was, like you I
had no desire to join Mensa or the 999 society. It just seemed so
"bougie"** to me!
** You can look up "bougie" in the online Urban dictionary :-)
I love that word! It's actually commonly used in the African American
community around here in Norfolk!
---
Zob
Vandar
fmomoon
