I don't like the idea of Mensa being descibed as 'secretive'. It's not a secret society! Anyway my membership has lapsed, so renewal is necessary and the bills keep piling up haha..
Contrary to what is presented here, the most intelligent or literate 2% of the population is less successful than the 3% known as morons, idiots and imbeciles. Success is the leading indicator of mediocrity with words. In other words 'money and brains tend to be mutually exclusive.' The literate are not very successful. The successful are not very literate.
George Noviss - gnoviss.com
Languages are used by those who need to be understood and those who need to understand. Excellent communicators use medium messages of about 3000 words. (TV commercials) It would be a rare Mensan who comprehends less than 90,000 and reads 3 rimes as fast as normal speach when not moving the lips.
Most Mensans are English speakers. The OED lists 500,000 words according to "The Story of English" (a Book), German language 166,000 and French 100,000. Psychology textbooks go on for hundreds of pages about intelligence and for literacy include nothing at all. If I was a school board trustee I would think people who can read were born intelligent too.
George Noviss - gnoviss.com
Wow, it seems like all American Mensans are "nerds" or "freakies" (as you use to call them) Here in Argentina, Mensa is very diferent... We've got artists, philosophers, lawyers, architects, psychologists, people who "do nothing"... XD None of us knows the sequence of number Pi (what's the use of that?). The only difference I notice comparing to not-mensan people is that we are always interested on knowing and learn more (that's why we listen each other so much). For the rest: We are normal people... And I think that "Intelligence" is not the number of your IQ, but the capacity of doing good things in your life with the elements you've got.
Now let's get this straight. I wanna choyn this klubb. An' I think I've got what it takes 'cos, on my fortieth berthday my pairents sedd, "Oh yeah. Horatio's pritty smart. He's just like Mozart was. Cos at the age o' six he was already as smart as he is tudae." Can I be honorary president too?
Yors troolie
Horatio Nelson
I am a Mensan and have been for many years. I have only recently rejoined the group. Many of the observations are so true. My only added comment would be this idea that every Mensan is a mathmatical genius is really not accurate. I personally chose the arts for my education and career. I found visual arts satisfying because there were no right answers and really, everything else was pretty easy and potentially boring. I believe we are childlike at times and probably misfits in school. Mensans are not childish or anti social. Mensa is an affirmation of ourselves in a world where they general population has lost their sense of humor and wonder.
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George Noviss - gnoviss.com
Most Mensans are English speakers. The OED lists 500,000 words according to "The Story of English" (a Book), German language 166,000 and French 100,000.
Psychology textbooks go on for hundreds of pages about intelligence and for literacy include nothing at all. If I was a school board trustee I would think people who can read were born intelligent too.
George Noviss - gnoviss.com
Here in Argentina, Mensa is very diferent... We've got artists, philosophers, lawyers, architects, psychologists, people who "do nothing"... XD
None of us knows the sequence of number Pi (what's the use of that?). The only difference I notice comparing to not-mensan people is that we are always interested on knowing and learn more (that's why we listen each other so much). For the rest: We are normal people...
And I think that "Intelligence" is not the number of your IQ, but the capacity of doing good things in your life with the elements you've got.
The medium is the message that "LITERATE" means "UNEMPLOYABLE" .
The more literate or intelligent 2% are less successful than the 3% known as morons, idiots and imbeciles.
Honest literacy standards will make education a criminal offence.
George Noviss
gnoviss.com
Is knowing how to spell every world in the english language that Important?
How about having a flawless record at Warcraft?
In place of asking how intelligent are you, we should be asking what are you doing with your intelligence and just how relevant is it?
A spelling Bee verse break through insight into Superconductivity .
Just how important is knowing which tree has all the vowels ?
Is knowing how to spell every world in the english language that Important?
How about having a flawless record at Warcraft?
In place of asking how intelligent are you, we should be asking what are you doing with your intelligence and just how relevant is it?
A spelling Bee verse break through insight into Superconductivity .
Just how important is knowing which tree has all the vowels ?
Yors troolie
Horatio Nelson