Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 19:44:08 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Goldbach's Conjecture
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Candy Madigan wrote:
>
> At 09:53 AM 06/20/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >Ted White wrote:
> >
> > > So are you saying that "the average IQ at a WSFA meeting" equates to
> > all WSFAns
> > > averaging in the top two percentiles of IQ?
> >
> >I find that the average WSFAn is quicker on the uptake, and has a far
> >wider range of knowlege and interest than the average Mensan.
> >
> >As to test scores, who knows?
>
> The DC area Mensans are just plain boring.  Very few of them know anything
> about anything.  They've taken a test and have been told they are smart and
> clever, but they aren't.

Agree fully.  After hanging around for a couple of years with Richmond
Mensa, which was a lot of fun, the DC group was a real disappointment.

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."