Triple Nine Society (Virtual Branch)
This is the official website for the Triple Nine Society, a high-IQ group open to anyone scoring at or above the 99.9th percentile on specified (standardized) tests of general intelligence. This site was last modified 25 October 2000. The Message Board is moderated -- about 1x/week.
Political Survey of the
Super-IQ Group Favors Less Government |
Read the results of this recent study
The text-art box and the TNS Survey site were designed and provided courtesy member Jon Miles.
| Member Samizdata: write your own short-short story online; Other member pubs | Qualifying for Membership: Accepted Test Scores |
| Membership Details and Contact Information | TNS site-related email: Helpful Comments Welcomed |
| TNS Official Correspondence Archive ExCom Memos, Officer reports, etc., as submitted (note that this is old and TNS-only correspondence) | Triple Nine Society Message Board - moderated |
| TNS Constitution (as published in 9/98 Vidya) | (New) Latest Vidya online (members only; non-members, see samples below) |
The guiding principle of The Triple Nine Society is democratic and collegial rather than
hierarchical. All members have equal rights to vote, hold office, and participate in the affairs of the
Society. We remain open to innovation and evolution.
The members of our Society come from a broad spectrum of employment (including unemployment
and retirement) and varied educational backgrounds, representing more than twenty countries. The
only known common thread is that they have tested at or above the 99.9th percentile on at least
one of several standard intelligence tests. Beyond that there are no restrictions to membership.
Our journal, Vidya (click for sample covers, or use samizdata table below for sample journals), serves as a medium for communicating ideas and soliciting them. It presents a
variety of articles designed to inform, amuse, and stir responses from members. You can email the Vidya Editor if you like. Non-members are welcome to subscribe, and correspondence
among members is encouraged. Opportunities for social contact include the annual meeting and
local meetings in some areas.
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Samizdata: Articles by and for TNS MembersOpinions expressed by our members are not the opinions of the Triple Nine Society as a whole, and in some cases they are not even consistently the opinions of the authors. We like to try on opinions to see how they wear. Attempts will be made to verify the wilder claims in articles presented as fact, but remember, folks, you're on the web -- don't be too credulous (for a brief history of the Universe, click on AE). |
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| Inevitabilities: Observations About Life by John Cooper | Excerpts from a recent issue of Vidya, the newsletter of TNS (more coming, but see Sample Issue below) |
| Dust Devils: Short Stories in 75 Words by Steve Seifert. Compose your own online... | A Critique of the Concept of Free Will |
| There was going to be a "nukes" essay here. The author scarpered. Instead, Take a virtual tour of an abandoned missile silo :-) | Living Intentionally: Intentional Communities and other philosophical alternatives |
| Hot News in Cool Stars (report on the search for extrasolar planets, July 1997) | Official TNS Correspondence Site: This is a compilation of official TNS business, mostly email, some transcribed hardcopy...members only |
| Triple Nine Society Message Board - moderated. | A Sample of Vidya (Sept 1998) |
Chats
The TNS Chat Room has been disbanded in favor of the email list and the IRC chats -- to set up an appointment to chat with other members on the IRC site on a non-Tuesday night, try sending email to tns-chat@egroups.com. Darryl Miyaguchi's Web Chat Page also lists a few different kinds of chats he's set up for HIQ discussion, including realtime net-phone. Kevin Langdon also sponsors a TNS-related mIRC channel (#triplenine on DALNet), but it is not an official TNS activity, so don't get upset with us about anything that goes on in there -- that's Kevin's turf. The mIRC S/W offers more sophisticated chat functions (private chat capabilities, actions, punctuation, etc.) than did the old HTML Chat Room. Click here to download mIRC, which is free (on a trial basis -- shareware). Note: Ad-allergics beware -- the message board is a free sponsored site.
| Other High-IQ Societies on the web. | HIQ Tests on the Web |
| Formerly http://www.brain.com/bboard/thread/iq/ -- The (original) Brain Board Continued is Bill McGaugh's continued online unmoderated message board about intelligence and related topics | National Association for Gifted Children - the site's relatively new, the association isn't. |
| Gifted Issues and Gifted Children - a HUGE repository of information and links, but somewhat dated (they try, but the web blooms daily). | Psychometrics -- have any links you'd like to see? |
| Marilyn is Wrong website: for the non-fans of Vos Savant (suggested by a member) | A Pretty Good description of a Tesseract (by way of trivia, or maybe quadrivia...) |
| Darryl Miyaguchi's excellent HIQ site | Another Brainboard |
| Bill McGaugh's EloIQ Proposal | The Self-Referential Aptitude Test from someone who's tired of IQ tests... see final analogy question! |
| American College Testing Program (ACT) | 32 |
| Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT, prior to April, 1995), combined verbal and quantitative | 1450 |
| Scholastic Aptitude Test I (SAT I,after April, 1995), combined verbal and math | 1520 |
| Graduate Record Exam (GRE), combined verbal and quantitative | 1460 |
| Graduate Record Exam (GRE), analytical | 760 |
| Miller Analogies Test (MAT) | 85 raw |
| Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale | 149 |
| Wechsler Intelligence Scales (any form) | 146 |
| Raven Advanced Progressive Matrices, Set II | 31 raw |
| Cattell Intelligence Test Scale IIIB | 173 (old norming) |
| Mensa Admissions Tests | IQ 149 |
| Cattell Culture Fair, Scale III (Form A and B) | 149 |
| Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT) | 149 SAI |
| Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT) | 149 |
Send a photocopy of your test score report to the Membership Officer for evaluation (address below). Only one qualifying score is needed for membership. The Membership Officer's determination is based on your score and the validity of the documentation.
Yearly dues for members or nonmembers are $25 ($30 for memberships requiring overseas mailing of Vidya from the US), which includes the Society's journal, Vidya. You will begin receiving the journal within two months following the submission of your dues payment.
For further information, please write (include a self-addressed stamped envelope or international reply coupon for overseas mail) or send email to TNSmembership@post.com:
Regarding Tests not included in the above list, contact the TNS Psychometrician:
Regarding Renewals, please send renewal dues only to:
For information/comments about the website, send email to TNS webmaster
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