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[Adrian Tymes]

I am a member of Mensa.  There are no IQ-based tiers of membership within
Mensa.  Either you tested high enough to get in (at some point, that you
have sufficient evidence of) or you didn't.

Higher IQ criteria are left to those smaller societies.

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 2:46 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Anton Sherwood wrote:
> "Are there tiers of membership?"
>
> My understanding is that Mensa members can take further tests to confirm
> having a higher IQ than what is required to simply get in the door. And so
> some join and associate with these "higher ranks of the intellect."
> Mensans, like transhumanists and cryonicists, like forming all sorts of
> groups under a common banner.
>
> There are also other organizations with similar aims and structure along
> the lines of Mensa. But some of them are vastly more exclusive/difficult to
> join because the membership IQ requirements are far more demanding. The
> Prometheus Society has an entry test which generally only 1 in 30,000
> people will pass. By comparison, 1 in 50 people can pass the Mensa entry
> test. And so Mensa has over 100,000 members globally, while The Prometheus
> Society has only around 100...
>
> I'm waiting for someone to create an even more demanding organization,
> which only about 1 in a billion people will qualify to join! They will only
> have around half a dozen members at any time, and the name will be, "The We
> Are So Much Smarter Than Everyone Else Society!" Lol They will crash the
> events of other high IQ groups, and mock them for being such intellectual
> dullards...
>
> John  ;  )
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 8:37 AM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2020-11-19 11:04, John Grigg via extropy-chat wrote:
>> > I have been tested by Mensa and I was a little below
>> > what they require for a basic membership.
>>
>> Are there tiers of membership?
>>
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