Talk:High IQ society

Help Wanted

Want: help with the unreffed societies. On WP they had articles, so I need refs to their respective sites like the ones that aren't linked at WP. See WP:High IQ Society.

Also wanted, deleting all the pointless "accessed (date)" from the refs, they are pointless. Thanks RA if you turn up. ħuman 05:32, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Actually, since this ain't WP, should we just link all the brain cults in line instead of having 57 footnotes? ħuman 08:11, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Footnotes are fine IMHO, although I do see your point. Also, the "accessed date" is one of the most standard practices for citing web information, we need to get into that as a good habit. Anyway, this is interesting stuff, I didn't realise there were groups that went off into the 0.000000000000000001 percentile and stuff. Surely by that point they'll all be properly on the autism spectrum? ^postate 08:18, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

My only thing with the "accessed date" thing here is the sites aren't being quoted. If you quote a site, the date matters a lot. If you're just linking to some lame shit, who cares. And I'm glad you're amused by my bringing my pet WP project home to RW so I/we can write about it without worrying about WP rules. Not sure about autism, but at the very least incredibly self-indulgent. ħuman 08:50, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Exelunt

Damn fine article. I moved the important bits of the Mensa article (i.e., the snark) here. There isn't really anything special to say about Mensa that doesn't apply to any such organisation, so I've redirected it here. Mensans are the most relatively normal humans to be found in high IQ societies, IME.

ps: I am extremely smart and spent most of my life until the internet being the smartest guy in any given room. However, I am also thoroughly in touch with my inner dumb - David Gerard (talk) 12:49, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Glad u liek. I got sick of arguing etc over at wikipedia and decided to port this over here so I could get all snarky on those other people in the other room. So many shitty websites for geniuses, so little time... ħuman 13:16, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Meeting

I disagree with the Mensa meeting statement. The one (and only one) I went to involved a lot of very odd over 40-year olds sitting in almost silence with a pint until someone sparked off a very dull conversation about their caravan. I think that was the first time I went out for a drinking session and only had one pint.

I'd also like to see some mention of the psychosis people develop when you mention that you are in Mensa. They transform from rational, intelligent people into raving loonies, spouting stories which usually invole them taking an IQ test (of unspecified origin) years ago and got a stupidly high score (usually over 200) and then a random excuse for why they won't join Mensa (along the lines of already having proved themselves / too intelligent for Mensa / don't like the kind of people in Mensa or the organisation). Bizzare. Crundy^{Talk nerdy to me} 14:48, 17 May 2010 (UTC)