IQ Test Made by Mensa Norway

Re:IQ Test Made by Mensa Norway by jerf on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:35PM (#31251080)

I've seen Mensa put out "tests" that aren't actually that difficult for marketing purposes. (I can't speak to their actual tests.) I recall a Mensa book in my elementary school library proclaiming that if you could solve even one puzzle in the book, you were smart enough to join Mensa! I believe it was officially from Mensa, but it's been a while and I may not remember correctly.

I passed. I could solve many of them.

Oh, jerf, bragging about how you could join Mensa is like the canonical example of boorishness.

Yes, well, just about everyone I handed the book to "passed" as well, so... let's just say this isn't the strutbrag it may initially sound like. I did not attend school at Lake Wobegon where all the children were above average. It was an average school of average children. Either by an amazing coincidence we were all smart enough to join Mensa even so, or Mensa was sandbagging just a wee bit. You do the math, as the saying goes.

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Re:IQ Test Made by Mensa Norway by pessimizer on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:39PM (#31251859)

They could be nerfing their tests in order to gain membership, I don't know how I could know, I didn't have access to the test after taking it. The proctor told me an interesting thing, though, that something like half (IIRC) of the people who take the test pass. She attributed it to people who knew they would fail largely being intimidated (or sour-grapesing themselves) out of even trying.

That Mensa's test is (intentionally or unintentionally) shit is also a plausible explanation.

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