Spiky Bugger
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I wonder about these “clubs.”
Watched a film; one of the actors had died and his obit mentioned that he belonged to the Triple Nine organization. I looked it up. Mensa seeks members who have scored, on documented tests, in the 98th percentile or higher. But Triple Nine won’t accept all that riffraff. Their members must score at the 99.9th percentile on those same tests.
Assume for a moment that you meet that criteria:
#1–Would you even WANT to join an organization with that kind of entry criteria?
#2–What would you expect to encounter at a gathering of such a group?
#3–Do you imagine that they would want to solve any world problems, volunteer to tutor kids who have little/no academic support at home, form brilliant ideas such as this girl did (I think another girl did this earlier, but wtf) https://www.extremetech.com/extreme...s-flashlight-powered-by-the-heat-of-your-hand or maybe get water to a village. https://waterwellsforafrica.org/ or maybe teach a poor family how to grow veggies from the scraps of the last bunch of veggies? Yeah… me either.
#4–I guess I don’t see much value* in such groups. Do you?
*Well, I’m pretty sure that if I were to qualify and join one of those groups, it would be a place I could avoid some folks I’d like to avoid.
Watched a film; one of the actors had died and his obit mentioned that he belonged to the Triple Nine organization. I looked it up. Mensa seeks members who have scored, on documented tests, in the 98th percentile or higher. But Triple Nine won’t accept all that riffraff. Their members must score at the 99.9th percentile on those same tests.
Assume for a moment that you meet that criteria:
#1–Would you even WANT to join an organization with that kind of entry criteria?
#2–What would you expect to encounter at a gathering of such a group?
#3–Do you imagine that they would want to solve any world problems, volunteer to tutor kids who have little/no academic support at home, form brilliant ideas such as this girl did (I think another girl did this earlier, but wtf) https://www.extremetech.com/extreme...s-flashlight-powered-by-the-heat-of-your-hand or maybe get water to a village. https://waterwellsforafrica.org/ or maybe teach a poor family how to grow veggies from the scraps of the last bunch of veggies? Yeah… me either.
#4–I guess I don’t see much value* in such groups. Do you?
*Well, I’m pretty sure that if I were to qualify and join one of those groups, it would be a place I could avoid some folks I’d like to avoid.