Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!att-ih!pacbell!ptsfa!ames!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!otter!gjh From: gjh@otter.hple.hp.com (Graham Higgins) Newsgroups: sci.psychology Subject: Re: Society for extremely gifted people Message-ID: <3660001@otter.hple.hp.com> Date: 7 Mar 88 11:52:11 GMT References: <7550@apple.Apple.Com> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 23 Some time ago the pseudo-science magazine "Omni" published a 4-sigma I.Q. test designed by one of the leading lights of Mensa. The "4-sigma" tag to the test reflected the designer's belief that successful attempts at the test could only be made by people whose I.Q. was at least 4 standard deviation intervals above the mean - I cannot be bothered to work out right now what that is supposed to map out to (160/170+, I think). Some of the rationale behind the test was included with the questions. The *reported fact* (please note the hearsay nature of this source) which gave me most cause for thought was that the test designer had created the test to aid him in his finding "a woman that he didn't have to talk down to." (well, that's what the gist of it was). It looks like there's intelligence and "intelligence". Cheers, Graham Higgins ============== ------------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Higgins @ HP Labs | Phone: (0272) 799910 x 24060 Information Systems Centre | gray@hplb.lp.hp.co.uk Bristol | gray%hplb.uucp@ukc.ac.uk U.K. | gjh%otter@hplabs