Mensa is considered the entry-level easy society as far as IQ groups go. The “this is as basic as you can get, wave this roster around to impress your friends at book club” group, accepting anyone with a score of about 130. Meanwhile,
actual exclusive IQ groups have a minimum cut-off between 146 (triple nine) and 160 (prometheus).
Mensa is the Participation Award of high-IQ societies…you squeak by on the tests with a 131, pay your fees and tuck that membership card into your handbag so you can wave it about in that cow Jillian’s face at the next mum’s group meetup, after Jillian brags about her idiot son’s science project. Well
our son comes from a family of
geniuses Jillian, so fuck right off!
And yet Russ still would never get in, since he clearly has an average or slightly below-average IQ.
Also IQ tests are generally rubbish. They don’t test for artistic abilities or anything non-concrete. The only people who brag about IQ scores are soundly average people who want to be seen as smart.
It’s like how designer handbag brands carry two lines of product: one with garish, obvious logos and trademarked patterns all over, so the average women can pretend to be rich and announce to the world that they’re wearing such-and-such expensive brand…and the
other line of product, for actual rich as fuck people, which has extremely restrained or hidden logo and trademarking, because real rich people don’t need to brag or advertise their wealth.