Quote: "From Poland, singer of the band "Virgin", she has a 156 IQ (only 4 points behind Albert Einstein) she a member of "MENSA" an organization that count with the most brilliant and intelligent people in the world, and Wow! she is so hoooooooooooooot!!!."
156 might sound like a lot, but here in Europe it makes her above adverage. America however it means you're almost a "Genius", with the access of information now it's fairly moot as well.
MENSA is a bloody joke now too, it's suppose to be the elite intelligent people; however I can guarentee everyone here knows atleast one person who is part of it.
I won't go into the ins/outs of my whole grudge against it and before anyone says it's because your not a member, I have taken the tests and could easily be a member if I wished to .. in-fact actually that is part of my problem with it. We (talking about the supernations mainly here) have become far more intelligent over the past couple of decades because of greater access to information, and ability to expand on it.
80pts scores on the Mensa test 50years ago, were basically adverage... now the adverage is 120. We can't benchmark intelligence the way it used to be, as we have all become more intelligent; due to how the world is evolving despite the fact we seem to have more and more idiots in the world now.
Fact is that people feel comfortable enough not to apply this intelligence. I've know ALOT of people who'll claim they're fairly dumb while, you can see quite clearly dealing with them that the case is actually they don't care to learn about something so won't rather than can't. This seriously frustrates me quite often, especially when later on they'll give their opinion on it anyway.
Something to also note is Intelligence has nothing to do with Common Sense or similar. Just cause someone could think about something and predict how it'll end, doesn't mean they will.
Often it seems the more intelligent someone is, the more dumbass mistakes they'll make .. the way you can tell between someone like that and a true idiot though, is they will understand they just screwed up where-as a true idiot will remain confused.