/lit/ - Literature

>>8800769
>What does /lit/ think about Mensa?

Ever heard of the phrase "gay-for-pay"? Mensa is basically "intellectual-for-pay." Only way to be a card-carrying member is to pay their membership dues.

Do you know mensa means "she dumb" in Spanish?

>>8800781
so you only need to pay money to get in?

>>8800769
i'm to stupid to join

>>8800781
>Ever heard of the phrase "gay-for-pay"? Mensa is basically "intellectual-for-pay."
You don't know what gay for pay is. Did someone tell you you have to pay membership fee for your gay card or something?

>>8800769
it's likely going to be full of smug autist nerds, greasy libertarians and fedora tipping atheists. do so at your own risk

>>8800860

You need to be in the top 0.5% on an approved IQ test to be eligible, and then you need to pay the dues to get in

>>8800972
Not him but G4P is when you're "straight" but do gay stuff on camera for money

>>8801004
>You need to be in the top 0.5% on an approved IQ
I thought mensa was 97th percentile?

>>8801010
It's broader than that, but you see how that's the opposite to the Mensa dues thing right?

So Mensa is a homosexual thing?

>>8801030
Men, sir.

>>8801011

I think I misstated it and it's actually the top 2% (not 1/2%), which would be 97th percentile. Mea culpa

>>8801004
this, fucking lol

>>8801041
That would be the top 3%. Either way, that's like 1/50 and 1/~30 which is like not massively selective.

>>8800781
This. I see the value in it if you're a lazy fuck with no merits save for a high iq and you would like an elitist platform to save face for your lack of real achievement so you can carry on being smug.

Usually pay-to-join groups like this have the saving grace of being good for networking, but since their key demographic are generally people described in the latter paragraph, Mensa is useless for anything but an ego stroke without exerting any effort.

>>8801047

My agreement with the 97th percentile came from the fact that there's no 100th percentile, but I believe you're right or at least there's some ambiguity. I should just have said top 2% to be clear. The two aren't too far from each other though, like you say

>>8800769

I like how the name is a play on Mens Sana (as in the Juvenal line Mens sana in corpore sana 'A sound mind in a sound body') and also means 'table' (note the logo).
I also don't think it's worth the admission fee

>>8800769
pictured: Mensa Member

On my resume, I currently have a section called interests that has "Mensa, avid reader, weightlifter"

Is this good to have?

>>8800769
IQ is an advantage up to a point. Anything beyond 115 or so just makes you miserable and gives you Mental Illness

>>8800769
>>/sci/ is the pseudo-intellectualism board.

>>8801109
>this is what sub 115ers actually believe

>>8801102
Does he have a viking raven banner on his wall?