Or is it just a meme? I wouldn't be joining as a status symbol. I'm interested because I want to meet likeminded people that aren't midwits who only talk about normie topics.
>>16864651Mandlebaur is in mensa.
>>16864651Might score you a few extra bucks donating to the sperm bank.
>>16864651You are going to get a whole bunch of people here shitting on mensa but its a great group of people and if you can get in , you should do it.You are going to hear people say that IQ means nothing or "I could easily get in but I dont like mensans and think they are losers.Its all cope. Come on in the water is fine
>>16864668>t. not in mensa
Guys... I know the password.
>>16864673Your moms in mensa
I did some more research. I bought the practice test and passed, so I'm probably going to schedule the real test sometime soon. It turns out my local Mensa chapter is pretty large and active. I need more social events to go to, so I think I'm going to join. If I can befriend at least a few people from it, then I think it would have been worth it.I do have concerns about how many Redditor types are there, but hopefully they aren't the majority.
>>16864668pottery. someone who goes out of their way to join the smartbois club is exactly the sort of person i see in my minds eye chuckling at a Dilbert comic. i bet you drive a gray camry as well.
>>16864651Here's a list of mostly famous nobodies from mensahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MensansProbably because most actual smart people are busy creating and building things rather than standing around talking about how smart they are
>>16864757I do prefer sensible vehicles for sureI dont really care for comics besides "the far side" but I am intrigued by Scott Adams who is a former mensa member
>>16864811within the first four we have scott adams and Isaac Asimov . You cant be serious that they are nobodys
>>16864651MENSA is antiquated and obsolete garbage fully replaced by AI.
>>16864838>>16864838>MENSA is antiquated and obsolete garbage fully replaced by AI.so is your mom
>>16864651It's a social club mainly focused on playing games. The main appeal is that it filters out casuals who show up at events to attention whore. Mensa folks are there to play their games. If that's what you want, it's great for that. Anything else about intellectual discussion forums is all window dressing. It exists but it's still as emotion laden as any other forum. Save your money (and sanity) if that's what you're after.Also keep in mind that midwits will have a complete meltdown if they know you're a member. Extreme hostility. Normies don't really care but midwits get angry to a point approaching violence at the mere mention that Mensa exists. Be very careful about ever mentioning it around them, even if you're a member just for the primary purpose of having game night.
>>16864827that's why I said mostly, because most of them are literal whos
>>16864847The games were awesome when I was a kid,Also there used to be meetups that were not horrible if you lived in a large city
>>16864811I wonder why catty lemmon is not on the list
>>16864651>>16864668>>16864673If you guys need to prove that you are smart by solving some meme logical puzzles then maybe you aren't that smart after all. Neither is anyone who is in this funny club. Most of famous scientists havent even done IQ test because it is pretty much worthless. Its good for making some sort of statistics about groups of people but it wont give a lot of insight about individual.Not to mention you can can PRACTICE and CHEAT through it. What's the point even?Get some impactful publication which proves that you actually developed something original. That will put you far ahead of those "le big IQ number" people.>>16864811Literally a bunch of humanities' people. Its like they know they arent good enough for STEM but they gotta prove somehow that they are "smart". Sad!
>>16864888Plenty of stem mensansYou know where the highest percentage of Mensa members in the world is? Los Alamos NMThats also the highest concentration of scientists on the planet.You are full of cope
>>16864891You sound more like cope trying to make up some bullshit justifications when the evidence is clearly saying the opposite. >Plenty ofNot a valuable argument. There are a bunch of STEM people who arent truly smart either, it means nothing. The fact however, that there are so many humanities cucks is a solid proof that MENSA isnt as valuable as you think it is. If it has a bunch of dumb people from the start it cannot be that great anyway.
>>16864651I also tested high enough to join, but I don't see the point. I can't justify a $107 annual membership to "network" with other nerdy dweebs.
>>16864899You are just babbling at this point Los Alamos is the highest performing zip code in every possible way and its more mensans per capita than any other placeThis is all the info you need to ruin every argument you make
>>16864901I quit when it went to 50 and that was long long ago I would have thought it would be a few hundred by now
>>16864652fuq't
>>16864851Long ago I ran a large social meetup but it started to die off once the iphone and Android phones became common. Too many people signing up for events that they never attend and too many toxic personalities looking for a social outlet that previously didn't go to meetups because pre-smartphone, that was "for nerds". The last year of the local science focused meetup, the organizers assumed a 50% no show rate for any event. They too ended up shutting down the meetup because it was becoming too much of a hassle to manage the poor behavior of the general public.
I am always shocked how poorly mensa is received here.
>>16864651No just be Asian or WhiteNOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL A SOCIETY
>>16864651>I want to meet likeminded people that aren't midwits who only talk about normie topics.Mensa is a bunch is spergs and autists who test well but generally can not hack society so they sit around and talk about how snart they are and tell each other stories about that time they tricked the normies and wasn't it hysterical.Drunks, pedos, and criminals, but it's cool because we're all brains. That sort of echo chamber never ages well.
>>16865343>Mensa is a bunch is spergs and autists who test well but generally can not hack society so they sit around and talk about how snart they areThis is an old meme that was never true
>>16865361It was and still is.
>>16865368False, this is just an extension of the nutty professor myth. People like to believe that geniuses are bumbling fools that cant tie their own shoes. Its just more copium for the masses
>>16865368You sound like that boy who seethed about not being part of the cool kids circle and badmouthed them out of spite for the rest of the school year.Very immature.>can not hack societyThat's a lot of projection. Is that's what on your mind? That smart people are sociopaths whose primary interest is to conspire and profit from other people?No wonder you feel threatened.
>>16865378I have attended more Mensa meetings and college courses than you.You are wrong on all counts.
>>16865409You sound like you give pedos a pass if they score well.Very scary.
>>16865378Conflating nutty professor archetype with the Mensa archetype tells me you have experience with neither.
>>16865410You are telling lies on the internet again
>>16865418confusing archetype with stereotype tells the bigger story here anon
>>16865420>muh mind-reading superbrainKek.
>>16865421An alleged stereotype unfounded in reality is textbook archetype. You'd know this if you interacted with professors outside of Hollywood films.
>>16865412>pedosAnother obsession.Then I guess you were molested by a knowledgeable figure. A teacher, perhaps?You should talk about it to a psychiatrist. It would help you a lot.Much more than ranting on an image board.
>>16865424No mind reading required. If you came here telling me you had been abducted by aliens I would not need to do any mind reading to know you were mental
>>16865412No im not a fed im jewish
This thread is a great example of why midwits are universally hated, even by other midwits.
Oh look it's this thread again
>Is MENSA worth joining?Mensa's a midwit filter. If you're willing to give them money for a membership, you're not all that smart.
I took the mensa test and got in. Met up with a group from it; some came across as genuinely unintelligent. Wouldn't be surprised if they just let the top 80% of scores in, only keeping out the genuine tards.
>>16865605>dumb people spend pocket change on social acitvites>smart people stay in their basementYou can easily identify an unintelligent, antisocial poor by posts like these. I bet you feel very smart saving pennies through self-exclusion from society instead of getting a real job.
I paid for a year of TNS membership once. The forum had a level of discourse similar to the better /vg/ threads. I think MENSA honors TNS membership as a qualifier but never bothered to try MENSA as well.
>>16865677Mensa costs more than Netflix.
>>16865710Yeah, and? It's still pennies. I could probably find enough for a year of mensa somewhere behind my couch cushions right now. Netflix isn't a social activity with opportunities to find people with similiar interests, either. Pretty much any social club will involve a similiar or higher cost.
>>16864651You will get sour grape takes because intelligence is very highly valued in modern society, to the point of determining your inherent worth as a person. You can be physically weak but still a person worthy of respect, but dumb people are universally considered to be lesser beings that one may at best feel pity for. This makes any evidence of being dumber than others cause a very negative reaction in people.Once we get past that, mensa is just a social club like any other. They have special interest groups, so the chance of finding likeminded people is decent. You will find people who got in for the same reason as you, you will also find people that joined primarily for the ego boost, high intelligence doesn't gurantee much in terms of character. If you'r'e intelligent enough to join you're probably intelligent enough to evaulate if the fee is worth the potential social interactions given your financial situation. At worst you lost a little bit of money.
>>16864651Its a scam. Like scientology. There's no benefit to it
>>16864651I'm in a similar club and most people are pretty unimpressive and too self-conscious to have robust conversations. I wouldn't recommend it unless you want it for bragging rights or gaming. You'd be surprised by how many underachievers are in these high-IQ clubs. You might as well become a secret society member if you want something profitable.
>>16865935>robust conversationsKek way to out yourself as a midwit.
>>16865935What's wrong with wanting people to play games with? And what's wrong with "under achieving"? We see that claim a lot on /sci/, not just in Mensa threads but in general about anyone of high intelligence who doesn't dedicate their lives to producing products and IFLS! content for people of lesser intelligence to consume. You sound like you think people in Mensa owe you their brain power. Maybe they're quite happy spending their free time playing games instead of trying to out maneuver assholes in the corporate world to get a few more dollars in their bank account or bragging rights over having launched a new flavor of fizzy sugar water.
>>16865732>Pretty much any social club will involve a similiar or higher cost.Wow. It's almost like social clubs are ripoffs. I can pretty much promise you there are multiple regular game groups at your local libraries and game stores as well as plenty of free clubs for anything you can imagine if you look around community notice boards and social media.>I could probably find enough for a year of mensa somewhere behind my couch cushions right nowAnd yet you don't have Netflix
>>16866194If those clubs exist, why are you spending so much time raging about Mensa also existing in addition to those groups? Why don't you just go to those groups and forget Mensa exists?Everyone in the thread, including you, knows the actual answer and that's exactly why Mensa continues to exist. You have no legitimate reason to care if they exist or not.
Only gifted people association worth joining imo.
>>16865935Freedom of speech = bad
>>16866246>If those clubs existIf? Damn you're sheltered.>why are you spending so much time raging about Mensa also existing in addition to those groups?I'm not raging about Mensa existing? How is pointing out something is a waste of money raging?>knows the actual answer and that's exactly why Mensa continues to existIdiots giving them money?>You have no legitimate reason to care if they exist or not.Incorrect. Mensa spammed my email for years to get me to join. Obviously that minor inconvenience is plenty reason to wish it didn't exist. You have no legitimate reason to care if they exist or not.
>>16865439so you're a white person that changed family ties? lmfao stfu kike
>>16866260>I was reminded for years that I couldn't join the eliteThat explains the bitterness.
>>16866286>I couldn't join the eliteHuh? Nah, they were spamming me because they were running a deal where their online test was free for a few months years ago and I aced that shit.Also>elitelmao
>>16864668>if you can get in , you should do it.OK but why? I can get in, I have 2 separate tests done by neuropsychologists with a high enough score. But why should I go associate with those people and give them my money?
>>16866194>I can pretty much promise you there are multiple regular game groups at your local libraries and game stores as well as plenty of free clubsYeah and they fucking suck because people who attend them suck at playing. At least in mensa i can expect the average attendee to have much better pattern recogniton, which is essential to playing games. Raven's matrices are literally a game, if you can't solve them well to save your life you are very likely to be shit at games too.And I don't care they are free. Mensa might as well be free, the cost has literally zero bearing on my financial situation. If it does for you then i get it but we're not all borderline in poverty.>And yet you don't have NetflixI don't have Netflix because it doesn't have everything i could possibly watch and managing multiple subs would be a pain in the ass, unlike a private tracker where i'm one search away from pretty much any media. If it was the opposite, I'd have netflix.
>>16866294>replying to spam>I aced that shitwew, lad! gg
>>16865954No one "owes you their brainpower". However, if you're already a +3 SD person, you might as well profit from that in a tangible way because, even from a religious perspective, people are at least half animal, so you're competing for survival and reproduction. You don't have to be a IFLS! dweeb, but being something like a physician or electrical engineer would be expected at 140+ IQ. Instead, a lot of the people in these societies are like call center workers who have strange hobbies. Perhaps it is no achievement to be well-adjusted to a sick society.
>>16866339If someone says they're in mensa, they're signalling their brain and thusly they owe me their brain. Just like when a woman dresses like a whore, she is signalling her beauty and she owes me sex.
>>16865941GRUG SMASH SMART MAN. GRUG BETTER THAN SMART MAN. GRUG NOW GO WATCH ROCK BOX WITH SPEAR CHUCKERS. GRUG WIN.
>>16866420The point is that you don't know what robust means, nor how to use the word.
>>16866327because they are fun people to hang out with especially if your normal life does not include other high IQ people
>>16866254You do not have to be gifted to be a polyglot You just need to invest the time in the language For an english speaker its only about 1400 hours to learn spanish and each language you acquire gets faster You do not need a high IQ
>>16866339>you might as wellAll you've done is reword your desire to impose yourself on others. It doesn't matter if someone is +2SD or an insane +4SD, they don't owe anything. That core fact is what you won't let go of, so you keep rewording it many different ways but with the same result of "people smarter than me owe me their brains". You can spin it as it's for their own good, a very common weasel way that sociopaths use to manipulate others but it still comes down to you being mad because people smarter than you are using their brains to play games they enjoy instead of mentally toiling away on things to entertain you. Saying it's for their own good is funny because its incredibly easy for your target to recognize your toddler level attempts at psychological manipulation.
>>16866820>each language you acquire gets fasterwhy?
>>16865954dayuuum Mensa members look like that?no way am i joining. If these guys are so smart why don't they go to the gym?
>>16866338>>replying to spamI didn't reply to spam though? Where did I say I replied to spam. Are you illiterate?
>>16866335>Mensa might as well be free, the cost has literally zero bearing on my financial situation>It's not a waste of money if I can afford itLol. Lmao even.>Yeah and they fucking suck because people who attend them suck at playing.I can see why you need to pay people to hang out with you.
>>16866339>being something like a physician or electrical engineer would be expected at 140+ IQ.And many 140+ IQ people are in these professions, that doesn't mean everyone will. If you're at 140+, you're more than likely to understand that being either takes a good amount of effort, time and energy, which may not be proportional to the benefits for all people depending on their needs and opportunities. Some are perfectly fine subsisting at a lower level of material wealth if it means they have more free time. Some were born into a familiy business that meant they didn't need higher education to survive. There are also factors outside of intelligence, like upbringing where one wasn't taught to value higher education, or even lack of affinity for academics.You might as well be saying every 190+ cm person should be in NBA, or that every member of the Kalenjin tribes in Kenya should be running marathons.
>>16866916>>It's not a waste of money if I can afford itYes Anon this is in fact true, though I understand this is hard to grasp when you are and always have been poor. The life for poor revolves entirely on optimizing their use of the limited source that is money. If you're not poor and the resource isn't as limited, time and everything becomes more valueable in relation to money, and so does spending negligible sums frivolously without wasting time with free alternatives that are highly likely to be inferior in some aspects. To you wasting money is some kind of a sin, but actually having money means spending money. I'd know, I've been on both sides of the fence.>I can see why you need to pay people to hang out with you.But I'm not, we're all paying the same sum for events none have to lift a finger to organize, and the opportunity to meet each other. There aren't mensan prostitutes you pay to hang out with, Anon. Though I can also imagine why this kind of nuance would fly over your head, I am starting to see a pattern.
>>16866866I estimate they are on average thinner than the people I see on the street in the USA every day.
>>16866820Is this what supposed high iq people keep telling themselves whenever they have no actual skill to show for to prove their giftedness except for scoring high on some pseudo-scientific test?
>>16866821>they don't owe anything.Kek imagine still making this argument after you've already been BTFO>>16866352
>>16866928>Estimated IQ: 100 (average)
>>16864651I once played against MENSA in a game that could be described as Trivia for Geniuses (not that anyone there was a genius). We trounced the MENSA team, and they kindly offered to waive the test for the entire team. None of us went for it, but it was a kind offer. They were intelligent people, but they were odd, smelled odd, and many of them had odd speech mannerisms and odd body shapes. It's a social club for people whose best...or only...hope to mate is to display their intelligence to others in the same awkward boat. BTW...if you don't get 10/10 on the practice test be ashamed. I think it's aimed at Americans, so try not to laugh too hard. https://www.test-guide.com/mensa-practice-test.html
>>16867034And then everyone clapped and Sydney Sweeney begged to have sex with me.
>>16867034Ah yes, I'm sure you happened to stumble upon a group of MENSA members--most likely at their MENSA club that you crashed--and in their infinity egos, they permitted you into their pay-to-enter club (for free), then lost a game of wits to you and your uneducated mates, while then offering you free lifetime memberships to their pay-to-enter club.
>>16867034>https://www.test-guide.com/mensa-practice-test.htmlBait's good.
>>16867085Moar bait. Book is to Publisher as Film is to PRODUCER. Film is to Director as Book is to WRITER.Who wrote this crap lmao.
>>16865199Farthuffers don't do well on an anonymous image board. Clubs based on what you are instead of what you can do always descend into farthuffing contests.
>>16867084wait, mensa are literal paypigs? Oof
>>16867094https://www.us.mensa.org/learn/primer/dues/
>>16867084No, you got the sequence wrong. The free membership was offered after we out-maneuvered them in the games room. As for the fees, they were nominal (20 years ago) and not mentioned. The general idea, however, is correct. People have a rose-coloured vision of Mensa, but the reality is lonely, liver-coloured, socially-awkward and has bad breath. Also, they laugh at their own tests, which are ridiculously easy.
>>16867319>in the games room.What games room? What were a ton of Mensans doing in a random game room?
>>16867344lol - I'm sorry you're having such a problem with an extremely boring but honest tale. If you have more questions, ask them to yourself and make up any answer you desire. That way you can have your little ego-jollies and I won't have to deal with your irrefrangible stupidity.
>>16867346That's what I thought. Like all liars, you crumble when probed with the simplest of clarifying questions about specifics. Because there are no specifics.
>>16867372Dox yourself, midwit. You are a certified moron, asking for "specifics" on 4chan.
>>16867378Nobody was asking for your location nor your identity. You're claiming to have entered a game room with a group of Mensans, which allegedly was not a mensa club meetup (since that requires membership and payment). When probed for why this was somehow a group of Mensans, a group known for their exclusivity, allegedly held their meeting open to the public, in which you and your mates show them up, and they subsequently offered you free membership to their exclusive club wherein they're totally inclusive to schlubs like you, you crumble and resort to impulsive emotional outbursts like the petulant child you are. There are people on this board smart enough to see through your lies, and autistic enough to call you out.
>>16867383You are incorrect at every stage. A challenge was made from the game creator to the local Mensa chapter. The challenge was enjoined. We met and played. Mensa got its ass kicked and invited us to join. Yes, for free. Is that really so difficult for your tiny, tiny brain to understand? This is the last of my time I waste on responding to your low-IQ, small-penor grumbling.
>>16867390>A challenge was made from the game creator to the local Mensa chapterLmao. Keep digging. This is amusing.
>>16864811>Alain de Benoist is a member of Mensainteresting...
>People form a club to get together and play games with people similar to them.>"Why do they think they're better than me? They haven't even impressed me with a bunch of new toys for me to play with. They're stupid, not me, them, they're stupid!"The amount of butthurt this organization creates by simply existing while not actively doing anything to people outside the group is absolutely breathtaking.
>>16867397Mensa has plenty of pants wetting, bleeding heart liberals and maga chuds. There's no dominate political identity, though many try to pin specific political views on the organization, using cherry picked examples from the membership. Pic related is from the "Firehouse" SIG, a group that's considered to be far right extremists by the more left leaning members of Mensa. Most people stick to the games, which have decorum rules against bringing in politics.
>>16864651>Is MENSA worth joining?Depends on what you want out of it. Sometimes they email you coupons (mostly for their shop), and there's insurance plans if you're in burgerland. In practice, it's mostly played the role of a gatekept niche forum before online spaces were a thing, and I haven't seen much use for it unless you want an extra possible social option. It's whatever. You could make a free version right now if you're patient and the idea of community management doesn't revolt you, though you'd need some kind of reliable entry metric for prospectives.>>16864847>Also keep in mind that midwits will have a complete meltdown if they know you're a member.They suck, though the ones that go full sycophant and treat you like a god are way worse. It's like that little dog in Looney Tunes.
>>16867022I are the glottest
>>16864652lolpoor bastardhigh IQ doesn't prevent you from being a delusional narcissist
>>16867823Is that a woman
