Blooming America

Chapter 808

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Chapter 808

After reading the book twice, Asimov didn't immediately write the preface, but wrote his thoughts and doubts about the book to Catherine.

Although there are now such things as mobile phones and e-mails, these things are still a bit early compared to this era, and many people at this time cannot quickly accept such technologies—especially the older generations.

The new generation's ability to accept science and technology far exceeds that of the older generation, no matter what era, this is the case.

Even such a science fiction master is not necessarily better than others in the application of the new generation of science and technology.

What's more, at this time, letters are obviously more solemn.

Within a few days, this letter reached Catherine's hands.

It lists some Asimov's questions about the setting, but these are nothing, something that can be said clearly in two sentences.

But what surprised and cared Catherine was what Asimov said later, which was what surprised Catherine the most.

"Miss Edson, I believe you can enter Mensa with your ingenuity, and I hope you can become one of them like us..."

Catherine murmured what was on the letter.

"Mensa...? Is it the Mensa Association?" Elsa seemed very clear.

"You know?" Catherine asked.

"It seems that someone told me about this before... well, it should have been not long before Kate came to England..."

What the hell……

Catherine was a little embarrassed, how did she feel... as if she had lost?

"Really?"

"I don't remember very much," Elsa shook her head. "But it's not wrong."

Although she said that, Elsa didn't join the other party, and she didn't even do the test.

"...Forget it."

Catherine shook her head.

Catherine really did not expect that the other party would want to let herself join the Mensa Association.

Mensa is the name of the world's top IQ club. It was established in Oxford, England in 1946. The founders were lawyer Roland Beryl and scientist and lawyer Lance Welin.

At that time, these two people who thought they were very clever had a whim and compiled some difficult questions to test their IQ, which was widely sought after. Excited, Beryl and Waring simply formed a club, calling on people with high IQ to join. They intend to build a club for the smart, and through challenging club activities, the participants’ high IQs will be recognized, affirmed and continuously improved, and they will share each other’s success.

The English name of Mensa is "mensa" which means round table in Latin. Mensa's idea from the round table is to hope that people can sit together on an equal footing. Of course, the premise is that they have similar IQs.

Only the top 2 IQ people in the world are eligible to enter the Mensa Association.

Inexplicably, a strange feeling appeared in Catherine's mind.

"Pretend to be the title of 13 gods"...

(Damn, why always think of these useless things...)

Catherine patted her head.

But speaking of it, this is indeed the second type of protagonists who say "I'm going to speak against the sky!" and "Don't bully the young man!"

The inexplicable sense of superiority in her heart made Catherine sweat profusely.

This... is yy...

But in fact Mensa is not that mysterious.

Mensa's main theme is to enjoy the intellectual "surfing". Perhaps these people are not amazing in appearance. Among them are business scholars and housewives and blue-collar workers. Because of a simple test, they gather together for tea, outings, and parties. These people have different interests and temperaments, but for one thing, these people generally have extraordinary IQs. They come together only because they are smart. The circle that brought them together is called "Mensah."

Of course, the "simple" of this test is relatively speaking.

If your IQ exceeds 148, it is of course easy, but for ordinary people, this is definitely not an easy thing.

Mensa Association, Mensa Society or Mensa Club, although in many cases, the positioning of people is not very clear, but there is no doubt that this is definitely a place with high IQ.

Of course, there will be various "Mensah tests" later, but in fact Mensa's test questions and the so-called "Mensah test" on the Internet are basically two things.

The Mensa test paper generally has 30 questions, and 23 questions are answered correctly, which is converted into an IQ of 148, which is the standard for joining the Mensa Club. The Mensa test generally asks questions from the aspects of attention, observation, logical thinking, imagination, and memory. The distribution of these 30 questions is roughly the same.

To say that the most famous person in Mensah is probably Oscar Rigre.

When Oscar was 4 months old, he picked clothes and put on himself. He started talking at 9 months and was able to recite the alphabet at one and a half years old. At the age of 2, he has mastered thousands of words.

His IQ exceeded 160, which was comparable to Einstein, so he was accepted as a member of Mensa when he was 2 years, 5 months and 11 days.

But that happened in the 21st century. Although Mensa is famous now, it is not as popular as the 21st century.

Speaking of which, the other party was much better than Catherine who was able to communicate proficiently when she was five years old.

No way, the language is flawed...

Well, Catherine seriously doubted whether this should belong to some kind of psychological problem. In her previous life, Catherine University had 8 Level 4 tests, all of which were wiped out. Fortunately, the school was finally reformed and the Level 4 certificate was not required, otherwise Catherine might not be able to graduate in her previous life. And every English class in her university is also an exam-make-up exam-retake-make-up exam, and then wait for graduation in the final year to clear the exam...

All in all, it was an unbearable past...

"Do you want to join?"

Catherine thought for a moment.

From my own experience, it seems that it would be easy to do such a test.

But only Catherine knew that she had achieved this kind of achievement because of her foresight.

But if you want to join Mensa...

Not to mention Catherine, even if you take the protagonists of the rebirth novels, they will probably be wiped out.

But on the other hand, Catherine felt that there should be no problem, because Catherine's thinking speed is very fast, and Catherine has a clear idea about this, and she thinks it should be almost the same.

Although in a blink of an eye, Mensa seemed to be useless except for his high IQ.

But from another perspective, this organization also has many functions.

The simplest point: contacts.

There are also various activities to connect feelings in Mensa.

And Mensa, as a high IQ criminal group...No, it is a high IQ organization. There must be many high IQ groups in it. Among them, there will be novelists like Asimov, and there are also various groups. Psychologists, professors, scientists, etc.

As a person with high IQ, their achievements are definitely not low...Of course, if emotional intelligence is not good, then I am afraid that in the end... But after excluding these accidents, these people are indeed worthy of Catherine's association. Object.

If you can have a good relationship with these people, it will be very good for yourself in every way...

But Catherine thought for a while, it seems that Elsa has already turned down a lot of invitations for herself every day...

"But a little test, it shouldn't matter..."

Catherine thought so.

Catherine's sense of Mensa's position is also better.

Mensa does not involve any political, religious or social affairs, but only focuses on pure IQ issues. The community includes people with different opinions from various cultural backgrounds from various countries. Anyone can support a certain point of view, but must not therefore affect the basic tenet of the community-to maintain a compatible and inclusive purely intellectual exchange forum.

When in China, Mensa did not allow the other party to participate in those who committed political crimes in China, such as the big Beijing bus in the snowy mountains...

The experts hired by Mensa will regularly sort out and screen the intellectual problems contributed by its members, or summarize their representative test questions, or authorize IQ research scholars who are familiar with Mensa's essence to write, so as to regularly publish books called Mensa brand. And related products. With Mensa's authoritative position in the field of IQ testing, these books are not only popular in Europe and the United States, but also used as a reference standard for IQ testing in Western countries, and have been adopted and promoted by many countries. The CIA, the Silicon Valley talent pool, the Royal Academy of Sciences, the Harvard Business School and other top Western institutions must take the Mensa series when recruiting talents.

Of course, these questions are all "outdated" because Mensa's own topics are the latest ones that have been edited and edited. To join Mensa, you must also have a lawyer or other approved by Mensa. Those test questions can only be done under human supervision, and there is basically no possibility of cheating, so the degree of authenticity is very high.

Thinking of these things about Mensa, Catherine decided to reply.

Anyway, even if you join Mensa, isn't it a matter of ten dollars?

The membership fee is not much~www.wuxiaspot.com~ And if I have this title in the future, is it even more impressive?

Except that she had not tested this kind of small probability event in the test, Catherine felt that it should not be very difficult for herself to join such an organization in medicine...

"Ok……"

Thinking of this, Catherine wrote back to the other party. Catherine first answered some of Asimov’s incomprehensible questions about her "Mass Effect", and then at the end, Catherine said that as long as she has time, she will definitely think. Take a little out of the way, and then let yourself go to the Mensa test.

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囧, I fell asleep yesterday.

Then the system crashes frequently, which is too embarrassing.

By the way, please remind classmate Chainess, don’t disclose your personal information casually, as are other book friends, what about the Internet...

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