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Mega Society

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Mega Society
Formation1982
FounderRonald K. Hoeflin
TypeHigh IQ society
Membership
36[1]
Official language
English
Administrator
Brian Wiksell
Websitewww.megasociety.org

The Mega Society is a high IQ society.[2] It was founded in 1982 by Ronald K. Hoeflin to facilitate psychometric research.[3][better source needed]

History

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The Mega Society was founded in 1982 by Ronald K. Hoeflin. The society's journal has been published since January 1982, and was originally called the Circle. It changed its name to Noesis in July 1987 and is currently, the journal is published on an irregular basis.[4]

In the 1989 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records claimed that the Hoeflin Research Group was the most elite ultra High IQ Society with percentiles of 99.9999 or one in a million required for admission.[5]

Criticism

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The Mega test is described as a "nonstandardized test" by a psychologist who wrote a 2012 book on the history of IQ testing.[6] In addition, there is controversy about whether these tests have been properly validated.[7]

The standard scores on most currently normed IQ tests fall in a range whereby a score of 160 corresponds to a rarity of about 1 person in 31,560. Leaving aside error of measurement common to all IQ tests, this falls short of the Mega Society's 1 in a million requirement.[8] IQ scores above this level have been criticized as being dubious as there are insufficient normative cases upon which to base a statistically justified rank-ordering.[9][10]

References

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  1. ^ Mega Society. "The Mega Society". Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  2. ^ Ellen Graham (1992-04-09). "For Minds of Mega, The Mensa Test Is a Real No-Brainer -- Rival IQ Societies Bicker Over Scores and Styles; Cindy Brady's Velocity". The Wall Street Journal.
    Dean Keith Simonton (2012-11-01). "The Science of Genius". Scientific American. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
    Mega Society (August 2005). "Constitution of the Mega Society". Retrieved 2006-07-25.
    G. Miller (May 1, 2012). "Get smart". Scientific American. Retrieved 2024-10-06.
    Anderson, Jack (November 28, 1988). "Is 176 IQ Enough in White House?". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 7, 2024.
    Joshua Harris (1997-05-14). "Let's See, Complain Is to Club As Order Takeout Is to Diner". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2024-10-06.
    Lena Groeger (2012-11-01). "When High IQs Hang Out". Scientific American. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  3. ^ Lemley, Brad (March 17, 1985). "The Mind of Genius". Washington Post Magazine. pp. 14, 23.
    vos Savant, Marilyn Mach (1985). Omni I.Q. Quiz Contest. McGraw-Hill. pp. 31–36. ISBN 0-07-039377-X.
    Aviv, Rachel (August 2, 2006). "The Intelligencer". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 2007-02-11. Retrieved 2006-09-23.
    Fella, Answer (March 1, 2006). "World's Smartest Fella". Esquire. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
    Derfner, Larry (August 8, 2003). "It smarts!". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2006-10-29.
  4. ^ "The Mega Society". Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  5. ^ McWhirter, Norris; McFarlan, Donald (1988). The Guinness book of records : 1989. Internet Archive. Enfield, Middlesex : Guinness Pub. ISBN 978-0-85112-878-8.
  6. ^ Castles, Elaine E. (6 June 2012). Inventing Intelligence. ABC-CLIO. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-4408-0338-3. Retrieved 31 August 2013. And what is that makes Marilyn vos Savant so uniquely qualified to answer such questions? There is only one reason: she is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the highest IQ ever recorded. Never mind that this record is based on a nonstandardized test put out by an obscure group known as Mega, supposedly the world's most selective organization of geniuses. Ignore the fact that test scores at the extreme ends of any distribution are notoriously unreliable.
  7. ^ Roger D. Carlson (1991). Daniel J. Keyser; Richard C. Sweetland (eds.). Test Critiques (Volume VIII ed.). PRO-ED. pp. 431–435. ISBN 0-89079-254-2.

    From the article: "Although the approach that Hoeflin takes is interesting, inventive, intellectually stimulating, and internally consistent, it violates many good psychometric principles by overinterpreting the weak data of a self-selected sample."
  8. ^ Hunt, Earl (2011). Human Intelligence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-521-70781-7.
  9. ^ Perleth, Christoph; Schatz, Tanja; Mönks, Franz J. (2000). "Early Identification of High Ability". In Heller, Kurt A.; Mönks, Franz J.; Sternberg, Robert J.; et al. (eds.). International Handbook of Giftedness and Talent (2nd ed.). Amsterdam: Pergamon. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-08-043796-5. norm tables that provide you with such extreme values are constructed on the basis of random extrapolation and smoothing but not on the basis of empirical data of representative samples.
  10. ^ Urbina, Susana (2011). "Chapter 2: Tests of Intelligence". In Sternberg, Robert J.; Kaufman, Scott Barry (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 20–38. ISBN 9780521739115. [Curve-fitting] is just one of the reasons to be suspicious of reported IQ scores much higher than 160
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