comp sci - i just saw i qualified for mensa - - is it worth the effort to sign up or is it lame/worthless - do people even care?
I believe membership for MENSA is 98th percentile on standardized tests, nothing special at all. There are many millions of people in the world that would qualify for MENSA, it just confirms that you are not retarded. Congratulations…you are not retarded!!!
haha yeah - thats what i thought, who cares
The MENSA people think that it’s very special. The rest of us don’t. The MENSA people think the rest of us are just saying “sour grapes.” I think I’m smart and I probably could qualify for MENSA (or have a very good shot at it). I’ve never really given it much though. The few people I know who have been big MENSA fans all struck me as being highly intelligent people that like to get into small groups and congratulate themselves on how intelligent they are.
bchadwick, I would bet my the absolute value of my entire net worth that you would qualify judging by your posts. (absolute value since it is still negative and I’d have a ~100% shot to get back to even, hahahaha)
So a 95 percentile in GMAT or a score of 1250 in GRE will fetch you a MENSA membership. http://us.mensa.org/Content/AML/NavigationMenu/Join/SubmitTestScores/QualifyingTestScores/QualifyingScores.htm
projectplatnyc Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > comp sci - i just saw i qualified for mensa - - is > it worth the effort to sign up or is it > lame/worthless - do people even care? I think you just have to be selective about when to include it on your resume. I suspect that it would help you in certain instances. However, I can’t comment with any degree of certainty as there is no placebo trial (I either include it or I don’t)… That many millions of people in the world qualify (as Sublimity points out) is a mathematical fact. However, the reason it might impress a recruiter is fairly obvious. Even if you think people in front office jobs are, in aggregate, smarter than average, being top 2% still puts you in the top, say, 5%-10% of this ‘elite’ group (in terms of raw intelligence as measured by IQ tests). Why is that not relevant, all other things being equal? If you are just out of college, you almost certainly don’t have anything interesting on your resume, so why wouldn’t you say “in these tests of numerical reasoning, verbal reasoning and spatial awareness, I am in the top 2% of the population”? Asked at interview, I would just shrug and say “yeah… I saw they were conducting the tests in a hotel opposite my campus, so I just went over out of interest.” (true) I bet most of the people that disagree with me have sat an IQ test; this is simple human nature (vanity) and is widely understood.