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• diemartin@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I wish I could remember the story but there was a guy that joined Mensa so he could con people. It worked too which rather seems to suggest that the entry requirements are not all that stringent.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Or IQ is a useless measure

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    • morphballganon@mtgzone.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Or computational intelligence isn’t the same thing as skepticism

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      And over-identifying woth it is something arrogant shit heads who are easy to con do.

      Not me though. I’m better.

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• dalekcaan@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A reddit mod for a mensa sub sounds like possible the most insufferable combination imaginable

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  • quetzaldilla@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you happened to have an unusually high IQ, why you would you choose to join Mensa, or be a moderator on Reddit for that matter?

    The smartest thing you can do is obfuscate your level of intelligence, not brag about it. That’s just how you end up doing more work and getting blamed by everyone around you.

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  • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And yet, their comment was on point. Maybe its like w double negative

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• ashenone@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Gotta be dumb af to not like big booty latinas

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  • Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Damn right, that’s why I married one.

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  • artiman@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    so true

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• Pudutr0n@feddit.cl ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As a big booty latino I feel both interested and offended by this.

  Also, don’t take our big booty latinas pls. We need them for <reasons>.

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Go find yourself an IQ 300 mensa nerd. They need you

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• shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  as someone who qualifies for mensa but like, i ain’t paying a subscription fee to be in the smart people club, that sounds really dumb (and also IQ testing is sketchy at best to begin with)

  yes, i always appreciate a big booty, on any ethnicity or gender, so latinas are indeed included

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  • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I took their online test out of curiosity and it said I was qualified to join. It was interesting to figure out the mechanism of it though.

    From what I gathered, it seems what they’re really measuring is your capacity for pattern recognition and association or something along those lines.

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    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Isn’t this what most of IQ tests do? I sometimes take them because it’s fun to solve the pattern tasks but I feel like it’s nearly impossible to test the really interesting things like transfer and problem solving capabilities in a reliable way at least in this kind of way.

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  • DawnOfTime@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Haha I always thought that people running mensa are the real geniuses for basically selling self-esteem

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  • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exactly! Mensa is essentially the filter for people who think they’re smart but actually aren’t.

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    IQ testing as many other things, has racist origins and is for all intents and purposes quite useless imo

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    • mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In the process of ADHS (dyslexia, other) disabilities, a IQ test is used to establish a baseline of what other people with a similar result can and cannot do and this is compared to what you can and cannot do.

      IQ tests do have uses.

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  • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    paying a subscription

    Waat

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mensa is for people smart enough to qualify, but dumb enough to get scammed.

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    • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      there’s a yearly membership fee

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    • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      m.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMKqyaXtHI

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• Photuris@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ok, so there is a pattern to this, and it has nothing to do with IQ per se.

  It has everything to do with political alignment. And it’s a multi-variant association (1. booty v. boobs, and 2. race / ethnicity / religion).

  I’ll use US-centric political terminology here.

  Hear me out:

  1. Men who prefer big healthy asses tend to lean left/Democrat/liberal/progressive. Men who prefer big boobs tend to lean right/Republican/conservative/fash.

  2. Men who are willing to date outside their own race / ethnicity tend to be more progressive than those who prefer to stay within their own race / ethnicity (although progressives can happily find partners within their own ethnic group, too; whereas conservative almost always look within their own ethnicity first).

  So, an appreciation for big booty Latinas signifies a. someone who leans left (booty), and b. a progressive willing to date outside their own race (assuming he’s not also Latino).

  A progressive / Democrat / liberal / lefty can also date PAWGs, big booty Black women, etc. and be perfectly happy.

  A Republican will only date someone within their ethnicity 95%+ of the time (some exceptions exist, but it’s relatively rare), and they ALWAYS prefer big mommy milkers, caring very little, or naught at all, for booties.

  So there you go. This is 100% anecdote, but one day, I guarantee, the research and science will back me up on this, as soon as someone conducts it.

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  • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Progressive here.

    I’m a boobs guy and never have I dated outside my ethnic group

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I think of myself as a progressive and I like both. But my country is like 99% white so I don’t get to play outside my group either :(

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    • callouscomic@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Anecdote disproves unsubstantiated opinion.

      Science!

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m a boobs guy and never have I dated outside my ethnic group

      Yet,

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is 100% anecdote, but one day, I guarantee, the research and science will back me up on this, as soon as someone conducts it.

    What’s stopping you? Haven’t you heard that the only difference between science and screwing around is writing things down? Start screwing around and writing down your findings!

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  • davepleasebehave@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Conclusive

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• sness@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Doubt you’d find either in a MENSA subreddit.

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• herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, high iq people like big tiddy latinas.

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  • capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • quetzaldilla@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Perfection

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  • four@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ll consider this an IQ test and apply for Mensa

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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• spechter@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So, do they?

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  • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I would say the verdict is a solid yes.

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  • Chivera@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Science still can’t figure it out

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  • theUwUhugger@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Iq is no measurement of objective intelligence but that of shape recognition, plus supposedly some other skills that they, the companies making IQ tests, actually made up

    Tho I reckon personality is often more important than looks, but I would find it irrealistic for anyone to dislike them

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    • foofiepie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      shape recognition

      Precisely why they would like big booty latinas.

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    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Tho I reckon personality is often more important than looks

      For long term attraction, I agree. However, if we’re just talking about looking at for science, I don’t think personality matters much.

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  • Lvdwsn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, we do

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• axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  safereddit.com/…/do_ultra_high_iq_people_like_big…

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• selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t believe their supposedly high IQ otherwise.

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• moshankey@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes. Yes we do.

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  • theUwUhugger@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Iq is no measurement of objective intelligence! Fuck you mcdonald crossword doing cuck!

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    • Lvdwsn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Somebody failed the test

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• UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You other brothers can’t deny it

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s mensa

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I went to college with a kid who introduced himself to the class as a Mensa member on day 1. it was a logics class.

    halfway through the semester I argued my point logically against him in a debate in front of the class and won. he was embarrassed as fuck and as red as a tomato. he was so pissed that he lost against me because he believed I was inferior to him.

    my tactic was to get him emotionally flustered on his stance, which he vehemently believed in, and argue logical arguments regardless of their logical context to his stance.

    for example if his stance was “all abortions are wrong.” my argument was, “if abortions are wrong and death is wrong then abortions that save life are right because abortions don’t kill people. so if abortions don’t kill people all abortions are right.” cue up a tit for tat back and forth for 15 minutes and I win the debate point for point.

    anyway, we didn’t see him for the rest of the semester and he dropped out entirely.

    I kinda feel bad a bit because it was clear he was on the spectrum and I used that to my advantage but the dude was a dick.

    point is Mensa is a dick stroking competition and you’re better off avoiding it.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Claims “high IQ”, holds right wing views.

      God that prickly sounds insufferable.

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  • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s irrelevant. It’s douche nozzle central.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It looks good on college applications. But don’t join their clubs

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      damn i gouss it’s secret information
      i love being left out

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  • Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mensa is “the high IQ society”. Take that how you will, membership is mostly used for bragging rights and/or being pretentious.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨37⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      It’s like anything if you are of the right social class being members of the right clubs can open certain doors for you. Political parties like to hear that you are in Mensa.

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    • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The impression I get is that it was more relevant before the internet. Like, you’d be living in bumfuck Nebraska and take an IQ test in high school to see if you should be a trucker or farmer, and then a couple weeks later you get a letter asking if you wanna be part of a club of smart people who have a magazine and meet every once in a while.

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• DancingBear@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s all relative. Define big.

  The bmi in rich nations is getting way too big.

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  • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can keep the skeletons for yourself

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    • DancingBear@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lol

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t we all?

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• lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t think there is a correlation in either directed but I’m happy to be proven wrong

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• SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The answer is yes, we do

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