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- From: gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Mensa (was Re: Kinesiology - how I heard about it)
- Message-ID: <GERRY.92Aug19091341@onion.cmu.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 14:13:41 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: SKH4161@MVS.draper.com's message of Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:32:00 GMT
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- In article <19920818143222SKH4161@MVS.draper.com> SKH4161@MVS.draper.com (Kjeld Hvatum) writes:
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- >>>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.
-
- Since Mensa also accepts SAT, ACT, GMAT, MAT and GRE scores for
- admission, do you mean to say the concept of these scholastic aptitude
- tests is completely flawed and meaningless as well? Many Mensa
- members, if not the majority, got in on one of these tests rather than
- an IQ test.
-
- Actually, these tests DO NOT measure intelligence! I had occasion to
- speak with an educator who is quite knowledgable about these exams. I
- was telling him that I think they are a farce (due to my very high
- score and my knowledge of my own abilities... i.e., the test make me
- out to be god, and I am not). Anyway, his response was that there is
- a strong correlation between GRE score and success in graduate school.
- And that is why its used. It has nothing to do with intelligence.
-
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