Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:56:05 -0400
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Goldbach's Conjecture
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Steve Smith wrote:

> Ted White wrote:
> >
> > "Strong, Lee" wrote:
> >
> > >         Ghod, but I love the sensation of listening to people with triple
> > > digit I.Q.'s!
> >
> > Is there anyone among us whose IQ is not at least 100?   (I doubt it.)
>
> I have the impression that the average IQ at a WSFA meeting is higher
> than the average IQ at Mensa meetings.  WSFAns are a lot more fun, too.

I haven't been to a Mensa meeting since a party at Peter Sturgeon's (Theodore's
brother) in NYC in the early '60s.  Back then they accepted only the top one
percentile -- my first wife, Sylvia, qualified, but I -- in the top second
percentile -- did not.  I heard they later lowered their standards and I was
eligible, but I never bothered.

So are you saying that "the average IQ at a WSFA meeting" equates to all WSFAns
averaging in the top two percentiles of IQ?

--Ted White