On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, at around 22:44:51 local time, Larry Vaughan
<ljvaughan@pldi.net> wrote:
>Whats the score to rate a menza membership? I just scored 138 on the
>damn tickle test and when I tried to print it I got a microsoft failure
>and a popup to report the failure. I clicked no. The first time I did
>the tickle test, I know I aced it, But I didn't want to give my info
>out. This time I gave all my info then had a damn microsoft
>failure.Damn it.
Dear Larry,
It's been over twenty years since I took the test, but back then, you
had to score 148 on the invigilated test to be invited to join. Prior
to taking an invigilated test, you could take a "home test". The
tendency was for the home test to come up with a score about ten marks
lower than the real thing, and a score of 138 would have led to you
being invited to take the invigilated test. Note that there are two
completely different tests used to measure IQ, that give completely
different scores. One is called the Cattell test (and is the one that
used to be used by Mensa, and may still be); I can't recall the name of
the other (it might have been "Progressive Matrices" or something like
that), but it scores much lower for the same IQ. If memory serves, 130
on this other test equates to 148 on the Mensa test. I don't know the
"tickle test", but assuming it is one of these two, it would appear that
you are on track for Mensa membership.
You might be interested to know that a score of 140 on an invigilated
Cattell test is officially known as "Genius Level". :-)
In addition to Mensa, which welcomes anyone in the top 2% of IQ, there
used to be a couple of other High IQ societies. Again, the names
escape me, but one was restricted to the top 1% of IQ and one was for
the top 0.1% of IQ. I think both societies eventually failed, due to
lack of members! You need a score of 155 to get into the top 1%. I
think the score for the top 0.1% was somewhere in the 170s. A friend
of mine sat the test when she was at school, and managed to score what
was then a record-breaking 223 (out of 200 - the scores are weighted by
age for under-18s).
ATB
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