"zob" <zob@ cox.net> wrote in message
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> 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.
Yep, me too. I've found more people *in* Mensa making fun of Mensans than
not.
>
>
> 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.
Is that the one that had the question, if you start with 10 and take half of
that and then take half of the result, and then half again, etc., how many
calculations will it take you to get to zero?
What got to me was that there wasn't a "infinity" answer to select. This
just seemed so glaringly obvious to me because as long as you are taking
half of something, no matter how small, logically there will always be half
left! That still pisses me off after all these years! ;>
>
> 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!
Well, I joined Mensa originally just for "bragging rights" (I was an abused
spouse of an alcoholic and I had *NO* self esteem at age 25) - I lapsed
after a year. When we moved to Houston I attended a gathering in a public
place and sort of "lurked". I found the people there to be hilllarious and
very down-to-earth, so I rejoined and have made some fabulous new friends
over the years.
>
> ** 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
LOL! Never saw that one before!
Hugs,
CatNipped
Vandar
fmomoon
