Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pacbell!att-ih!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!pur-ee!pc.ecn.purdue.edu!ga.ecn.purdue.edu!langg From: langg@ga.ecn.purdue.edu (George Lang) Newsgroups: sci.psychology Subject: Re: Society for extremely gifted people? Message-ID: <355@ga.ecn.purdue.edu> Date: 19 Mar 88 20:01:03 GMT References: <7550@apple.Apple.Com> Reply-To: langg@ga.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (George Lang) Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Lines: 65 In article clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)writes: >In article <7550@apple.Apple.Com>, Grady Ward writes: > >> 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. > >I've been waiting to see responses to this, and I'm shocked that there >haven't been any. > >The GRE and SAT exams are NOT intelligence tests. ETS, who likes to >make all kinds of outrageous claims, even admits to this. The GRE >and SAT exams are extremely couchable, and I feel that any reasonably >competent person who wants to could achieve the scores you require >me to be nothing more than a group of people banding together to ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >feed their egos and proclaim themselves intelligence superior on the > >-- > As an alternative, I should like to suggest, a different reason for people of a certain kind to "band together" or at least try to. Surely, you have tried to tell an excellent joke to a group of people who just looked at you with strange looks in their eyes. The fact that they did not understand it, does not change the fact that you feel somewhat idiotic. Example: A Turk walks on the road with a horse. Against him comes a Kurd. Tells him: -Where are you going with this jackass?- The Turk answers: -Foolish Kurd don't you see? This is a horse! The Kurd: -Not only see it I do, I also talk to it! Try to tell this to any heterogeneous gathering of people & will notice the different times it takes to the various individuals to laugh at the beginning and strained smiles late ones will display.... It is both natural and legitimate for people to look for their own kind, to find themselves not alone, not a pink elephant... >clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) GTL