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- From: brian@audiofax.com (Brian Troxell)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Mensa (was Re: Kinesiology - how I heard about it)
- Message-ID: <494@audfax.audiofax.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 14:22:43 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.002420.5887@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU> <1992Aug17.092452.27338@cco.caltech.edu> <1992Aug17.144159.12775@anasazi.com>
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- In article <1992Aug17.144159.12775@anasazi.com> john@anasazi.com writes:
- >In article <1992Aug17.092452.27338@cco.caltech.edu> keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
- >]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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- >Hmm... when I was a member, I found very little of that going on. It was
- >a social club, and a way to find those of similar intellectual
- >interests (not easy otherwise in a place like Phoenix, AZ).
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- Did someone say "self-flattery and egotism?"
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- Way to prove the point of the previous post, Keith.
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