Browsing through a list of the IQ societies....

"Poetic Genius Society" - barf
"International Society for Philosophical Enquiry" - pompous, though not as bad as the "Poetic Genius" one
"IQuadrivium Society" - pulled up their new website and noticed that it had been hacked ("This Site Hacked By forhacker..."). Not auspicious.

Nope -- in fact, most IQ tests are not particularly accurate before age 16. They can show trends towards "giftedness" or lackthereof, but in terms of an exact number? Usually not very accurate.

That's why I joined a sorority ;)

My older brother is. For him, I think it is mostly a pride and honor thing.

rabblerouser!
 

I disagree. It is impolite to <i>brag</i> about being in Mensa, but you can talk about it just like any other closed organization (ie, NPC / NIC / NPHC group). The OP just wanted to know who else on here is in Mensa, just as I'm sure you would want to know who else on here is in your fraternity.

Read the questions carefully....it is really pretty easy.

Please note the word "first" in my post. There was question about how early some people were first tested; I answered how old I was when first tested.

Trust me, to have had the scholarships offered to me which were, I was tested several times since. I graduated from high school when I was 16 (actually, a few months beforehand).

Now, was that too hard to understand, or do you just like to search for my posts and try to make fun of them? It has to be more than a little boring to the other people of GC, also.

Actually, most children who are tested in public schools are tested in order to place them in gifted classes. I was tested at age 4 in order to place me in gifted classes when I started school the next year. I had been reading for some time (without classes, thank you) ;)

The majority of children tested at an early age are tested for the exact opposite reason. It's not because the parents are highly into their child's educational advancement. It's usually because some head-start, etc. program has identified them as a potentially advanced/gifted student. In order to make sure they are given the fullest opportunity for learning experiences, they are tested for placement.

Touchy tonight, aren't we?

Nowhere did I say that you didn't deserve any of the scholarships you were given or that your IQ wasn't high. I'm just correcting the wide-spread assumption (that, while you may not believe in it yourself, was perpetuated by your post) that early IQ tests are accurate. They're not. This is why a number of schools have moved away from the IQ test as a method of measuring "giftedness" in recent years.

Not at all touchy. Just wanted to let you know that many people have noticed your Achilles' heel.

Ksigkid, you might want to take the test now - law school makes your IQ go down.

isn't youth the point in time in a person's life in which their mental capacities are the most (for lack of a better term) pure?

http://www.psychologicaltesting.com/iqtest.htm
http://www.gt-cybersource.org/Articl...aspx?rid=11267

The rationale for assessment conveniently coincides with the experts' recommendations regarding the best age for testing. Generally, testing is believed to be most reliable and most predictive between the ages of six and nine years old. Although many of the modern assessments are approved to be administered to children as young as two years old, the consensus among professionals is that there is rarely a need to test before the child is ready to enter school and that testing at younger ages may not provide reliable results.

-Rudey

Haha, maybe. Although, working at a preschool during college may have done some damage as well.

Heee heee heee!