Mensa, a worldwide high IQ society, announced Tuesday that they will stop admitting members based on IQ test performance and will instead require top Candy Crush performance for acceptance.
We realized that the IQ tests just don’t correlate as well to actual IQ as the ranking of candy crush levels on people’s phones,” said Fred Wilkins from Mensa headquarters. “Like what is more telling, completing a pattern in a test center? Or wiping out the whole candy crush board with two speckle candies that just “happen” to be next to each other?
Sonia Gomez, who was admitted to Mensa at nine years old, agrees with their decision. “I made it to level three hundred on Candy Crush and no one even gave me an award at school. Finally I feel like the grownups see what my mind is capable of.”
Some mensa members who tested to qualify are skeptical of the new policy. “Can’t you just buy gold bars to beat the levels?” said Lin Chung, who joined Mensa based on a perfect SAT score ten years ago. “I am not sure they can proctor the phone games as well as a standardized test.”
Mensa disagrees. “Deciding which bonus candies to use and budgeting for online gambling is surely as much an act of genius as any kind of medical research or literary achievement,” said Wilkins. “The top 2 percent of intellectuals will probably be winning the unicorn challenge if they really are serious about joining our organization.”
At mensa conferences, members used to try out new board games and work puzzles. “Now everyone is just on their phone,” said Gomez. “And who knows, maybe we are playing against each other with the different avatars.”
“Many folks have asked us if we also accept scores for Royal Match, Worldle, or Block Blast,” said another Mensa spokesperson. “All I can say so far is ‘of course not.’”
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