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Ask HN: what is the acceptance/rejection rates for Mensa tests?
by gioele 14y ago
Ask HN: what is the acceptance/rejection rates for Mensa tests?
- fleitz 14y agoOn average they reject 98%. Mensa's cut off is the top 2% of IQs
- anothermachine 14y agoTop 2% on any one test-taking session of *any one of several tests (SAT, LSAT, Mensa test, etc), which is more than 2% of the population.
- gabemart 14y ago>On average they reject 98%. Mensa's cut off is the top 2% of IQs These two statements are not congruent unless the distribution of IQs in people applying to Mensa is equal to the ditribution of IQs in the general population. I doubt that to be the case.
- gioele 14y agoIf I understand it correctly, they claim that you must be in what is thought to be the top 2%, in other words your IQ must be over 130-something. But this does not mean that they reject 98% of the people that take the tests. People interested in taking that test must already be, I suppose, in the top 10% of the IQ distribution (125+?), or so they think. If this is true they they do reject 98% of the applicants but only 80%. Yet I suspect they reject even less. Any source or third-party evaluation of their acceptance rate?
- kkuduk 14y agoAFAIK, tests are prepared by some third party organizations (psychology departments?), scaled on representative sample of the population and are just bought by Mensa(and changed every couple of years). You should be aware that in different countries test with different SD (15, 16 and 25) are used. I heard from one guy who was responsible for testing in my country that about 25% of people taking the test get accepted
- illuminate 14y agoAn understanding of numbers and statistics is obviously not required for membership.