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Originally posted by MagiK:
Like TL took the practice tests (and learned that I score very high on tests written in the USA and poorly on tests written in the UK) but wasn't interested in pursuing it...especially since I was out of the country and traveling more often than not. I didn't score quite as High as our Esteemed mensite genii...genuii? whatever 
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I'm sure it's geniuses. Certainly not genuii since the singular is genius - the i and u wouldn't suddenly switch round [img]tongue.gif[/img]
That's one of the many problems with intelligence tests, MagiK - too culturally-specific. Then if you do one of the culturally-neutral ones like Raven's Progressive Matrices they're so domain-specific that they're pretty meaningless as well. Not a big fan frankly
Vedran, perhaps you could ask if you could attend a meeting as a potential member to scope it out before spending the money if you're really interested. I imagine it would be thought-provoking and challenging to socialise with lots of geniuses, but then you would have to consider the sort of people who would be in an organisation merely because they're geniuses and they know it. Might be a little... overimpressed with themselves?
Certainly it's flattering that you've been invited to join. Bear in mind though that it is based on one intelligence test, which as I mentioned above, have plenty of problems with what they're actually testing, and the most you can say without making too many assumptions about your performance is that you scored well
on that test.