Prometheus Society
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| founding | 1982 |
| founder | Ronald Kent Hoeflin |
| motto | ignis aurum probat (fire tests the gold) |
| main emphasis | Giftedness (IQ 160+) |
| Action space | Global |
| people | Wallace Rhodes |
| Members | 100 (active) |
| Website | prometheussociety.org |
The Prometheus Society is a High IQ society for intellectually extremely gifted.
Conditions of joining
Entry is open to people who have an IQ with a theoretical rarity of more than 1: 30,000. They are more intelligent than 99.997% of people and have an intelligence quotient of 160 (standard deviation: 15). For comparison: Mensa International , the world's largest association for gifted students, accepts (with 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 six hundred times more selective than the cafeteria.
founding
The Prometheus Society was founded in 1982, originally as the Xenophon Society, by Ronald K. Hoeflin, a philosopher who was awarded the Rockefeller Prize and author of several IQ tests, who used the association as a socialization tool, but above all as a norm group for other IQ tests in difficult measurable range beyond an IQ of 145.
Members
The association currently has around 100 active members, including internationally known personalities such as the atheist Dan Barker , board members of international companies from the high-tech, biotechnology and advertising business, military advisors, math and physics professors and NASA employees. Many of the members have now organized themselves on social networks such as Facebook , LinkedIn and XING via the Internet .
Grady Towers, a security guard himself, wrote an essay known among the gifted called The Outsiders on the subject. The article, which can also be viewed on the association's website, describes the life of William James Sidis , a child prodigy of the early 20th century, and uses this example and the data from the Terman study to show that giftedness is not an exclusively positive characteristic is a complex trait that can also lead to negative developments, especially in social life.
Admission criterion and accepted tests
The Prometheus Society accepts a number of standardized and commonly accepted intelligence tests , including several versions of the American Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test (WAIS-R, WAIS-III), the Cattell Culture Fair III, and the Miller Analogies Test . In addition to these tests, the results of some older school performance tests ( SAT , GRE ) are accepted, as these tests showed results comparable to IQ tests at the corresponding times.
Publications and media presence
The club has achieved a certain prominence in recent years through media reports. It was mentioned in several books on giftedness and giftedness, a book on war veterans, and as an example of brand recognition in a book on marketing, and was used by the New York Times as a clue in their crossword puzzle. For the members themselves, the association publishes a magazine called Gift of Fire .
Individual evidence
- ^ Prometheus Society: Officers and Staff. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Wounded Warriors by Mike Sager
- ^ Spent by Geoffrey Miller
- ^ The New York Times Crosswords