IQ Test

[tech_rsr]

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How many of you are a member of Mensa or the International High IQ Society?

Please try out the IQ test at the High IQ Society website:

http://www.highiqsociety.org/members/iq_tests/

Also check out the Mensa website at:

http://mensa.org

 

[Nacchinarkiniyan]

Being a member of Mensa does not help anyone. IQ alone does not help. Application is what counts. As Thomas Alva Edison put it "Genius is nothing but one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration."
-Rant of a Mensan.

Mensans range in age from 4 to 94, but most are between 20 and 60. In education they range from preschoolers to high school dropouts to people with multiple doctorates. There are Mensans on welfare and Mensans who are millionaires. As far as occupations, the range is staggering. Mensa has professors and truck drivers, scientists and firefighters, computer programmers and farmers, artists, military people, musicians, laborers, police officers, glassblowers--the diverse list goes on and on. There are famous Mensans and prize-winning Mensans, but there are many whose names you wouldn't know.

 

[tech_rsr]

No doubts there. It is really the application of intelligence which is important.

There are many, many talented individuals whose capabilities have not been challenged and therefore they remain intellectually untapped. While an intelligence test proves little apart from Visual-Spatial skills, knowledge base and logical-mathematical skills, it is undeniable that these skills are most important in those professions where we require them. Scientists, engineers, technologists, programmers, etc. depend on these skills on a day-to-day basis.

Rather than looking at high IQ societies as a differentiator and the creation of an elitist categorization, we should examine their usefulness to individuals and society at large. They can help create thinking methods and trends which enable other people capable of thinking, planning or being creative. Such social paradigms encourage competition. While competition does have a dark side, one has to admit that it leads to innovation, personal and social betterment and other spin offs, when channeled properly.

Being a member of Mensa does not help anyone. IQ alone does not help. Application is what counts. As Thomas Alva Edison put it "Genius is nothing but one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration."
-Rant of a Mensan.