Mensa welcomes two-year-old into its ranks, second toddler this year

[cbdo2007]

Mensa must be looking for young blood: The high-IQ society has for the second time this year welcomed a member who is just two years old.

The Victoria Times Colonist reports that Anthony Popa Urria is the youngest Canadian ever admitted into Mensa and has an estimated IQ of 154. The toddler can recite the alphabet backward and forward, count to 1,000 and name the planets in the solar system. He is, however, only the second two-year-old admitted to Mensa this year.

In March, Emmelyn Roettger was welcome into Mensa one month shy of her third birthday. She is the youngest U.S. member of the group. Amazingly, doctors at first thought Roettger suffered from autism, because she appeared to avoid eye contact with other individuals.

"It turned out that she just needed glasses!" her mother Michelle Horne, 41, told MSNBC. "It was so obvious that any delays she had were vision-related. From there on out, she just took off."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mensa-welcomes-two-old-ranks-second-toddler-013027542.html
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Hmmmm, my 23 month old can sing most of Somewhere Over The Rainbow and has been spelling her 5 letter name for 6 months....wonder if she's future Mensa material???

[Archae]

1. Is MENSA still full of wack jobs?

I read a couple MENSA magazines at our local library, it was full of articles about alien abductions, psychic detectives, and so on.
And none of the articles had any skeptical input.

The ads in the magazine were for "psychics," ghost chasers, free energy, etc.

[provis99]

2. MENSA is proof that IQ has nothing to do with intelligence.

[kestrel91316]

4. My biggest complaint way back when I was an actual member was that

the same few fat nebbish-y guys would come to all the gatherings and eat up all the snackies.

I also met "the one that got away" at a Mensa meeting - the handsome-enough-to-be-a-male-model one with the wealthy family and not a singe flaw that I ever found, except that he was allergic to my cats and expected me to get rid of them. Sigh.

But weep not for me. His family were of the charity league/Beverly Hills/polo pony set, and Republican 1%ers. They didn't much approve of little ol' me. It would have been a hellish life if I had taken the bait.

I don't do Mensa anymore.

[Uncle Joe]

3. I can't wait until a fetus joins for pre-publishing an essay on inner space.

Thanks for the thread, cbdo.