Prometheus Society
Dan Barker, Ronald K. Hoeflin, Marilyn vos Savant
The Prometheus Society is a gifted Association for intellectually gifted high.
Conditions of accession
The membership is open to people who can demonstrate an IQ with a theoretical rarity of more than 1:30,000. These are smarter than 99.997 % of people and have an IQ of 160: before (standard deviation 15). For comparison, Mensa International, the world's largest gifted club, takes (in this standard deviation) people with an IQ over 130. This corresponds to the 98th percentile and a theoretical rarity of 1:50. The Prometheus Society is now six hundred times more selective than Mensa.
Foundation
Established was the Prometheus Society in 1982, originally as Xenophon Society, by Ronald K. Hoeflin, one with the Rockefeller Prize winning philosopher and author of several IQ tests, which as a socialization tool, but especially as a norm group for more IQ tests in the club hard measurable range was conceived beyond an IQ of 145.
Members
The club currently has around 100 active members, including internationally renowned figures such as the atheist Dan Barker, directors of international companies from the high-tech, biotech and advertising business, military advisers, mathematics and physics professors and NASA employees. Many of the members have now organized over the Internet on social networks like Facebook, linkedin and XING.
Grady Towers, even security guard, wrote a well-known among gifted essay called The Outsiders on this topic. The article, which may also be viewed on the website of the Association, describes the life of William James Sidis, a prodigy of the early 20th century and displays this example, as well as using data from the Terman study that giftedness not only positive characteristic is but a complex trait that can also lead to negative developments, particularly in the social life.
Admission criteria and accepted tests
The Prometheus Society accepts a number of standardized and commonly accepted intelligence tests, including several versions of the American Wechsler intelligence tests for adults ( WAIS -R, WAIS -III), the Cattell Culture Fair III and the Miller Analogies Test. In addition to these tests, results of some older school achievement tests (SAT, GRE ) are accepted, as these tests vorwiesen comparable results to the appropriate times with IQ tests.
Publications and media coverage
The club has come in recent years through media reports about a certain celebrity. He was mentioned in several books for high and very high talent, a book about war veterans as well as a possible role for brand recognition in a book on marketing and used by the New York Times as a reference in their crossword puzzle. For the members themselves, the association publishes a magazine called Gift of Fire.