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From: gerber@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Andrew S. Gerber)
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Subject: Re: Mensa
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Date: Wed, 27-Aug-86 10:16:45 EDT
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In article <163@csusac.csus.edu> eliseot@csusac.csus.edu (Tim Eliseo) writes:
>Recently I have become very active in an organization known as Mensa.
...
>Mensa's sole qualification for membership is a score in the
>98th percentile or better (compared to the general population) on an
>intelligence test (for example, the qualifying score for the SAT is
>1250).

I've always kinda wondered about Mensa.  It really doesn't seem so
special.  According to the qualifying score, nearly everyone at MIT
would be a member.  Is this selective?

		-Andy
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