To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/05/13 14:09
Subject: Re: [K-list] Mensa
From: Domagoj Klepac
On 1999/05/13 14:09, Domagoj Klepac posted thus to the K-list:
"Haakon Rian Ueland" <huelandATnospamjancomulti.com> bravely stated the following:
> Intelligence is not much use without wisdom. Being a member of Mensa only
> means that you have the logic/intelligence to solve the Mensa-test.
Exactly! That doesn't say anything about beeing successful human beeing,
or about beeing loving human beeing, or about beeing able to read or
something like that.
However, Mensa-test does measure one form of intelligence which is
called analytic intelligence, something which is naturally called logic.
Logic is discipline which teaches you to say "OK, I'm a man, and every
human has a penis, so I must have a penis too; also, I'm not a woman,
and only women have PMS, so I shouldn't have PMS".
This kind of logic reasoning is tested by Mensa test. So when the person
I was talking too told me that she had Reiki III level or something, and
is therefore qualified to say what Reiki is, I said that I passed Mensa
test, and that I feel qualified to say that what she was saying was
not logical.
> Having been a Mensa-member since 1993, I know that using your membership as
> proof of logic and intelligence doesn't work. These are only proven by
> the things you say and do.
I disagree, at least partly. Membership in Mensa should be proof for
ability to think logically, however, membership in Mensa doesn't say
much about intelligence. There are different kinds of intelligence (some
psychologists diferentiate more that 100 types of intelligence), and
Mensa test deals with tiny bit of it.
Now, please, note that I never said that passing Mensa test is proof
that every conclusion I make is true - also, having Reiki III isn't a
proof that somebody is right about what Reiki is. But Mensa test results
do tell that you have ability to solve Mensa test, just as Reiki III
level does tell that you have ability to do Reiki treatment.
I hate to talk so much about it, I think it was obvius from my first
post (I simply don't have time to write it all down, it's much easier to
let people draw conclusions), but obviusly it wasn't.
> And, Domchi - in my opinion you have proven the exact opposite with your
> words, both now and before.
Yeah, yeah, OK... :)
Domchi
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