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MSN Sponsors Mensa

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-smarter dept.

crankyspice writes "Fresh on the heels of Google courting members via GLAT advertisements in the Bulletin, Microsoft's MSN is now sponsoring American Mensa events, featuring Mensa questions on the MSN homepage, and Mensa will put MSN's search on their new homepage."

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  1. Linux evangelization at Mensa in New Orleans by smartfart · · Score: 3, Informative
    I was contacted back in January by the committee that's putting on MensAGumbo here in July. Apparently RedHat declined their invitation to run a booth or give a presentation, but I readily accepted :-)

    I plan on using a variation of these bullet points for my presentation. If any of you slashdotters happen to be at MensAGumbo, please come and cheer me on, say hi, etc.

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  2. Re:MENSA is not THAT smart.. by Eel+IzCool · · Score: 3, Informative

    That was for an older version of the SAT. The SAT no longer measures IQ, apparently. Also, on that version, I would guess that a 1300 was around the 98th percentile, because they let the top 2% of people in. ALSO, it should be noted that Mensa is a high IQ society, not a high intelligence society (Though some people suggest defining intelligence as what IQ measures...) ALSO ALSO, sometimes I think about trying to join Mensa, mostly just so I could meet more people. And to rub in my friends faces.

  3. Re:MENSA is not THAT smart.. by greg1104 · · Score: 3, Informative

    > Among many options, one only needs 1300 (out of 1600) on SAT. These days, MANY people easily get 1300.

    You don't get a qualifying Mensa reading comprehension score with this statement. You need a >1300 if you took test before 9/30/74, back when it was hard. They clearly state that they haven't considered the SAT to correlate with IQ for over ten years now; 1994 was the last year they accepted those scores.

  4. Returning fire by Monty+Worm · · Score: 3, Informative
    If anything, this highlights the problems that Mensa has at the moment.

    Mensa's goals are (paraphrased): "To foster human intelligence, to research human intelligence, and provide a social forum for it's members" By and large, it's mainly only this last one that ever happens. By far and away the most popular regular Mensa meeting in London, England is the pub crawl.

    Mensa is a Social Club. Members often have very little in common, but a common ability to think. While there is a qualification of a top 2% IQ score for entry, only a tiny percentage actually apply.

    For the record, I'm not entirely comfortable with corporate sponsorship of Mensa. The fact that it's Microsoft is something I really don't like. But it's just my opinion - by policy, Mensa has no opinions

    (disclaimer: the author is a member of British Mensa, and sits on the London organising committee (LocSec forum)(

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