That is really interesting. I didn't realize that they hd elininated the old one. My first lot of I Q tests run by the South Afrucan government using conventional words, spatial diagrams, logic, etc, put me at 165.

In my mid 40s, after doing the same tests as Mensa for a doctor, I was turned down for a job because I had the highest creativity score they had seen in their 30 year existence. I was furious.

The owner of the company then sent mr to another doctor who gave me a non-cultural IQ test. I was given 5 hours to do it. She also told me that if I needed more time I could have it.

The test comprised simple pictures with simple problems (and a few other stuff). I completed it in 90 minutes, got everything right, and the doctor doing it told me I was off-the-graph. She said the people who could do that were very, very clever.

Who knows?

Now, in my old age, I think that the earlier Mensa tests had a lot to do with one's level of eduucation as well. It also has a lot to do with one's unnderstanding of language...