Mensa is a world-famous organization, often used in casual conversation when talking about how smart someone is (or isn't) -- as in "you're no Mensa candidate, that's for sure." But how do you actually get into Mensa? What goes on there, and what kind of organization is it?
Here are 5 things you probably didn't know about Mensa and its famous tests.
#5: There is No Real 'Mensa Test', Per Se.
Sure, everyone has this idea that when you sign up with Mensa, you go into a little room, where many bespectacled smart people stand around and admininster a series of sinister, vaguely threatening questions until you are finally allowed membership into an exclusive, wonderful society, but that's not the case. It's just a normal IQ test.
#4: Mensa Membership Depends on What IQ Test You Actually Take.
Thanks to the fact that there are multiple 'standardized' IQ tests out there, Mensa has come up with a magical little scale to judge them by, and it varies for each test. So hey, quit sweating there, bud -- just 'cause you did awfully on that one IQ test the mean old man gave you, doesn't mean you're out of Mensa, like, forever.
#3: Mensa Goes Out of Its Way to be Apolitical.
It might be fun to debate the virtues of invisible-hand free market capitalism with someone else whose IQ is 160 and who can argue circles around your feeble brain while he sleeps, but Mensa's founder wisely forecasted the distinct lack of fun most people would read in this kind of proposition. As such, Mensa was founded and remains a specifically apolitical organization for smart folk.
#2: Yeah, About that Saving the World Thing...
The depressing comment that most Mensa folk just meet up to "do some little puzzles" is actually attributed to its founder, who had really soaring, vaulting hopes for his organization of like-minded geniuses. What did he think they were going to do, meet for tea and just spontanaeously solve world hunger through the power of an IQ test? Well, maybe he wasn't so nave, but still, is anyone really surprised?
#1: Its Youngest Members are Two Years Old.
If Mensa's admission requirements are to be trusted, it looks like they have a couple of members who are exactly the age of two. Now don't ask us how a small child (a baby, almost) might be able to score high enough on an IQ test to get into Mensa, when we've struggled our whole life just to get a letter in the mailbox, but it happened. How about if the parents have low IQs? Do their kids laugh at them secretly?
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