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Old 05-06-2003, 05:03 AM   #21
Grojlach
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Join Date: May 2, 2001
Location: Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum
Age: 44
Posts: 5,281
Never even heard of Mensa...? Except that it's the name of the special students' restaurant here at the University, which closed down due to a lack of interest in the end. Which wasn't a bad thing after all, as the food even tasted worse there than when I'm cooking myself.
And is an IQ-test the only thing necessary to apply? I mean, I'm pretty good at IQ-tests myself, but that still doesn't make me intelligent; It just makes me good and handy with the kind of questions in an IQ-test, which tend to be made in a certain style. Someone who takes 5 hours upfront to get familiar with the kind of questions asked in an IQ-test and scores a 158 in result, is he any more intelligent than someone who doesn't do any preparations and scores a 150? How about someone just out of bed with a hangover getting a score of 144? I've always thought of IQ-tests to measure someone's intelligence to be somewhat overrated...
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