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From: grady@Apple.COM (Grady Ward)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Society for extremely gifted people
Message-ID: <7550@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 4 Mar 88 00:39:23 GMT
Reply-To: grady@apple.UUCP (Grady Ward)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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Keywords: IQ Intelligence Society

For a free copy of the Cincinnatus Journal, a quarterly 

publication containing articles of interest to extremely gifted 

people, please write:



The Cincinnatus Society

380 N. Bayview Ave.

Sunnyvale, CA  94086



Membership in the Cincinnatus Society is limited to persons 

scoring above the level of one-tenth of one percent on standard 

tests of general aptitude.  For example, a combined score of 

1500 (Verbal + Quantitative) on the Graduate Records 

Examination, or 1525 on the S.A.T. is deemed adequate evidence.  

For aptitude tests with about a 15 point standard deviation, 

this level of performance is around the 150 I.Q. 

level.  According to a late edition of the Encyclopedia 

Britannica, more than 40% of persons with an I.Q. of 140 or 

greater are not promoted during at least one of their four high 

school years.  This catastrophe has not attracted much 

attention because it represents a loss of opportunity rather 

than destruction of existing, tangible work.  But, looking 

around us, we seem to need as many Einstein's, Voltaire's, and 

Madame Curie's, as we can muster, maybe to even just survive as 

a culture, but unquestionably to survive as a culture worth 

perpetuating.  To this end, the Cincinnatus Society strives to 

be nurturing, not to be elitist, and to serve the members' need 

to communicate with one another, especially among those who are 

isolated geographically or socially.  We have members in 

England, Australia, Spain, and Sweden, as well as most of the 

United States.  We have octogenarians as well as teen-agers, 

retired physicians and working attorneys and scientists.  If you 

want to be among people who are not afraid to be passionately 

intellectual and vitally curious--about everything--please 

write for your copy of our Journal.