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    Quote Originally Posted by MK27 View Post
    You mean, so that they will stay in the compound when told?
    More like so they don't 'do as they are told'. I prefer women who can think for themselves and have high intelligence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by abachler View Post
    I prefer women who can think for themselves and have high intelligence.
    Which makes them twice as sexy when they realize there is no escape
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    Quote Originally Posted by abachler View Post
    Are you saying that for you, it doesn't? Why would I want to breed with a mate that I do not admire as having qualities that will enhance the fitness of my offspring?
    Sure; I guess I just misunderstood "jump in bed with".

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    Keep eating your vegies and you too will find yourself sexually attracted to beautiful and smart women when the time comes.
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    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Homer_Simpson View Post
    Bill Murray.



    Better watch out, Sharon Stone is a LIFETIME MEMBER OF MENSA...you don't want her to find out and make you look like a fool again, do you?
    Mensa is bull......... I did their test and turned out to be in the top 3% of the Mensa if I would join and I got almost no education at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JOZZY& Wakko View Post
    Mensa is bull......... I did their test and turned out to be in the top 3% of the Mensa if I would join and I got almost no education at all.
    That's the point. It makes the Mensa members, aka "silly people", easy to stereotype. Membership in to such societies (especially "Honour" societies) is far easier than it ought to be.
    Last edited by zacs7; 12-30-2009 at 01:23 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zacs7 View Post
    That's the point. It makes the Mensa members aka "silly people" easy to stereotype. Membership in to such societies (especially "Honour" societies) is far easier than it ought to be.
    Either that or it means that performance on the Mensa test is not strongly predicted by level of formal education. I haven't taken the test, but I would imagine that very few of the questions are the sort of thing taught in school anyway. If that were the case, anybody who did well in school would do well on the test, so the implication is false in BOTH directions
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    	if (a) do { f( b); } while(1);
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    IQ tests, in general, I think are flawed. I always scored well at them (which is pretty odd, in and of itself, actually), but I have noticed that (1) they do require some degree of context, whether it be cultural, social, or otherwise, and (2) the "correct" answer to the question is often not *really* what you had in mind. I do understand that no test is perfect, but something tells me that they could be a lot better. To that end, I really don't place too much value on an IQ score, Mensa membership, etc. I prefer to use my own heuristics and intuition to gauge a person's intelligence, anyway.

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