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- From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
- Subject: Re: Mensa (was Re: Kinesiology - how I heard about it)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.092452.27338@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- References: <zlsiida.19@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> <BszE8J.LM@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <14AUG199221251122@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu> <1992Aug17.002420.5887@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 09:24:52 GMT
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- dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott) writes:
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- >In article <14AUG199221251122@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu> lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard) writes:
- >>In article <BszE8J.LM@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, mrjg8679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael R James) writes...
- >>>lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>For those jilted by Mensa, there's always Densa. (Anybody have the
- >>>>address?)
- >>>
- >>>Oh _please_ elaborate on this!
- >>
- >>It's an anti-IQ-elitist organization. I think I read about it in _Omni_
- >>about 8-10 years ago, so I'm afraid I can't give you any other details.
- >>
- >The elitism of Mensa is a big farce, anyway. They don't have the intelligence
- >to work out that the concept of IQ is completely flawed and meaningless.
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- >Mensa is the most useless, aimless, tacky, idiotic organisation in the world.
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- The IQ isn't meaning less, but MENSA is. That is, the IQ has some merit
- for some abilities, but MENSA exists only for self-flattery and egotism.
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- keith
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