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Mensa Home Test

I did the mensa home test and sent it off to be marked.I have a letter back from them saying i have a percentile score or 20 percent, and my score indicates i have a high chance of getting into mensa.

Im sure 20percent is a crap score though.Has anyone else done the test and to they put "your score indicates you have a hgh chance of gaining mensa membership" on every letter, no matter if its a good or bad score.

Reply 1

alex_hk90

19

Are you sure it doesn't say that you are in the top 2.0%?

Reply 2

PurpleO

I think "percentile score of 20%" means you're in the top 20% of the population, not that you got 20%!

Reply 3

lol_wut

yup, percentile refers to where your score places you, not your actual score.

Reply 4

MSB

17

I'm starting to have doubts of the reliability of the test.

Reply 5

pcok

14

Are we refering to the top 20% of people who took the test, or top 20% of the population? Because I very much doubt that the top 20% of the population (ie: 1 in 5 people!) would have "a high chance of gaining mensa membership". Not that your score wasn't good, top 20% is a good achievement, I just doubt that the top 20% of the whole population is intelligent enough for Mensa, otherwise there wouldn't really be much point in it.

Reply 6

Ilora-Danon

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MSB

I'm starting to have doubts of the reliability of the test.

Lmao. Just what I was thinking. Ha...

My aunty is a member of Mensa :cool:

Reply 7

FyreFight

14

An IQ test is an incredibly unscientific and abstract method of measuring someone's intelligence. I'd only use it as a very rough guide.

Reply 8

Pav90

8

Well if the OP didn't know what percentile actually meant WTF is he doing with a test from MENSA?

Reply 9

undercover agent

12

i dont know but i think think i should be allowed in just on strength of my sense of superiority, alone. seems fair. :smile:

Reply 10

Phusion

6

I did an online test on Mensa Sweden's website, and then went to do the real test for a comparison. And the results were utterly consistent. I don't think Mensa as an organisation has an interest in tricking people to do their tests. Furthermore, the validity on online/home tests provided by Mensa seems fairly high, based on my own experiences, and that of a few friends.

Try some internet tests (that don't look completely unprofessional), and compare the results, and you might get a better picture of your chances of doing well on the real Mensa test. But I concur with an earlier post that IQ tests are not a fair way of measuring how "smart" or "intelligent" a person is. It is a highly reductionistic measure of how well (or rather 'desirable') you organize information in a specific fashion, under specific circumstances.

Reply 11

ashy

17

Bearing in mind you have to be in the 98th percentile or above to get into Mensa! Might just be a waste of money! What's the point in Mensa anyway?

Reply 12

alex_hk90

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ashy

Bearing in mind you have to be in the 98th percentile or above to get into Mensa! Might just be a waste of money! What's the point in Mensa anyway?

That's why I didn't join after taking the test; I just didn't see the benefits. :confused:

Reply 13

neon

13

surely a home test means you can cheat? do you not have to be invigilated? When I took my test we were watched over by a bloke from mensa....

...i passed but I never read the magazines, never read their emails and never take part in it in any way but hey, I didnt have to pay for it.

Reply 14

ashy

17

neon raver

surely a home test means you can cheat? do you not have to be invigilated? When I took my test we were watched over by a bloke from mensa....

...i passed but I never read the magazines, never read their emails and never take part in it in any way but hey, I didnt have to pay for it.