The Mega Society is a High IQ society that restricts membership to people providing test evidence of an unusually high IQ. According to the Society's constitution, entrance is open to "people who have scored at the one-in-a-million level on a test of general intelligence which is credibly claimed by its authors to be able to discriminate at that level"^[1]. There is currently no reputable psychometric evidence that IQ can be accurately measured at this level ^[2] and consequently any group defining itself on this qualification standard is in serious doubt. This topic is discussed in the society's newsletter, Noesis. A high IQ society is an organisation that limits membership to people who are within a certain high percentile of IQ test results, theoretically representing the most intelligent people in the world. ... IQ redirects here; for other uses of that term, see IQ (disambiguation). ...

Philosopher Ronald K. Hoeflin established the Mega Society, and some other societies such as the Prometheus Society, with the publication of his Mega Test in Omni, April 1982. The Mega Test consists of a series of puzzles with no time limit; instead of measuring a mixture of speed and complexity of thought, as is the standard metric of IQ, the Mega Test (and others) measures just complexity; a non-standard approach. Ronald K. Hoeflin is a psychometrician, creator of the Mega and Titan tests, and founder of the Top One Percent Society, the One-in-a-Thousand Society, the Prometheus Society, and the Mega Society. ... A high IQ society is an organisation that limits membership to people who are within a certain high percentile of IQ test results, theoretically representing the most intelligent people in the world. ... The Prometheus Society is a high-IQ society comparable to Mensa International. ... Omni was a magazine that contained articles on science fact and short works of science fiction. ...

Notable people who have taken the Mega Test, meeting the Mega Society entrance requirements, include author and columnist Marilyn vos Savant, Chris Langan and former US State Governor and White House Chief of Staff, John H. Sununu. Marilyn Vos Savant (born August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright who rose to fame through her listing in the Guinness Book of World Records under Highest IQ. Since 1986 she has written Ask Marilyn, a Sunday column in Parade magazine in which she answers... It has been suggested that Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe be merged into this article or section. ... See also New Hampshire Province of New Hampshire List of Colonial Governors of New Hampshire I am a doodlebug Categories: Lists of United States governors | Governors of New Hampshire ... It has been suggested that Assistant to the President of the United States be merged into this article or section. ... Governor John H. Sununu John Henry Sununu, PhD (born July 2, 1939) is a former Governor of New Hampshire (1983-89) and former White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. ...

References

1. ^ http://www.megasociety.org/constitution.html
2. ^ Standardized IQ tests, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and Stanford-Binet, have a ceiling of 160.

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or WAIS is a general test of intelligence (IQ), published in February 1955 as a revision of the Wechsler-Bellevue test (1939), standardised for use with adults over the age of 16. ... The modern field of intelligence testing began with the Stanford-Binet IQ test. ...

External links

• Mega Society homepage
• Mega Society history

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