{"database": "surfing", "table": "posts", "rows": [["254322", "8877", "Rich Toby Pavel", 72, "Bruce Fowler", "Jul 17, 2022", "2022-07-17T12:44:08-0400", "\"The icing on the cake was that he revealed to me that Rich was also a MENSA member. I remember saying something to the effect that for a genius he sure acts like a dumb ass.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n......do you really wanna go there with this kind of Tom Foolery?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe fact is there are a scant 56k Mensa members in the United States (about 110K worldwide) representing the upper 2% of IQ having an accepted score on the Stanford-Binet of 132.  The Cattell is 148 and it is 130 on the Wechsler test.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMost IQ tests are designed to yield a mean score of 100 with a std. deviation of 15.  The 98th percentile score is under these conditions is 131, assuming a normal distribution.   The average IQ in USA is 98. The easiest way to determine if someone is a Mensa member is ask them to show you their card.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHowever, IF I show you my Mensa card, then I have to kill you.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMany people wonder who is Mensa when it comes to celebrities & public figures.  Bill Clinton, Sharon Stone, Geena Davis...... of these three, Geena is the only card holding member.  One of the highst IQ celebrities on the planet is......... Kate Beckinsale. At a younger age, she tested around 152 or 156. At one point in time she stated in an interview that her intelligence had a negative impact on her career until she finally got some breaks in epic films like \"Pearl Harbor\" and then the \"Underworld\"  & \"Van Helsing\" series.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt is plausible that Pavel may be in the uppper 15% of Americans in IQ, however the supposition that high IQ equates to \"\"Genius\" is somewhat fleeting.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn recent times, we've seen how Americans have embraced an utter disdain for logic or fact checking preferring to rally around emotional rhetoric oddly reminiscent to Hitler's rise to power, Putin's current \"special military operation\" or Trump's attempted coup of January 6th.  Many Americans appear to be mimicking or doing a damn good impersonation of lemmings racing toward the cliff.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI have witnessed Toby (on Vimeo) purporting to be highly intelligent while combining words that might appear to be part of a highl brow monologue or solilooquy, yet I would have a difficult time interpretting what he said due to the appreciable degree of misuse of the Queen's English...... and that's not simply because he is a Colonist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI have to admit, I don't speak Jabberwocky.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt the end of the day, most importantly, and pertinent to this forum, do the boards work......... I watched a video of Shane Dorian absolutely ripping on one of his \"Speed Dialers\". The visual served as irrefutable evidence, that this uber gifted surfer was truly set free on a sled that was clearly working, and working quite well.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe big question seems to be whether you can get one, or not, and if you are willing to go thru an inordinate amount of effort to acquire one.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAND DON'T FORGET THE BOTTOM LINE WHEN IT COMES TO THE GREAT \"MAGIC SURFBOARD\" DEBATE:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nONE MAN'S MAGIC IS ANOTHER MAN'S POISON.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n...... the rest is just details."]], "columns": ["post_id", "thread_id", "thread_title", "post_number", "author_username", "post_date", "post_date_iso", "post_body"], "primary_keys": ["post_id"], "primary_key_values": ["254322"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1900299996341346, "license": "Public Domain"}