{"id":462869,"date":"2010-03-23T14:30:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T18:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=107645"},"modified":"2010-03-23T14:30:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T18:30:27","slug":"geniuses-love-lolcats-and-cake-wrecks-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/462869","title":{"rendered":"Geniuses Love LOLcats and Cake Wrecks Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You’ve probably heard of Mensa International, that special society designed for extra-smart people (the name means “table,”<\/a> in case you were wondering), defined as the top 2 percent of the population as ranked by one of a number of standardized IQ tests. So what do super-geniuses think are the top sites on the web? The U.S. division of the society did a little survey, and has come up with a list<\/a>, one that contains some fairly low-brow humor sites, including I Can Has Cheezburger<\/a> (home to many an LOLcat photo) and Cake Wrecks<\/a>. Even more surprising, one of the top sites under the Science and Technology category is the Popular Science web site<\/a> — a rather prosaic choice for such an exclusive group (the only other top site is Gizmodo). Shouldn’t there be at least one site devoted to astrophysics or quantum mechanics?<\/p>\n

Also on the list are Drudge Report (under the “news and politics” heading) as well as Boing Boing and PBS. And apparently even geniuses need help understanding simple things: another site to make the Mensa Top 50 list was How Stuff Works<\/a>. But if these selections suggest that Mensa is just too low-brow for you, there are several other organizations that try to be even more exclusive in appealing to the ultra-smart, including the Triple Nine Society<\/a> and The Genius Society<\/a>, both of which claim that they’re restricted to people who score in the 99.9 percentile on one of a number of standardized IQ tests (Mensa is accepts anyone who scores in the 98th percentile). Although I’m willing to bet that most of them probably like I Can Has Cheezburger too.<\/p>\n

Post and thumbnail photo courtesy<\/a> of Flickr user PaDumBumPsh<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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