From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Matigan's Conjecture
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 08:18:10 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	When discussing IQ tests and measures, it is desirable to mention
what scale or test you are referring to since various tests define human
normal differently.  I was rather impressed by one (non-WSFAn) fellow's 165
score until he mentioned that 120 was human normal on that scale.

-----Original Message-----
From: Candy Madigan [mailto:candymadigan at mindspring.com]
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 7:30 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Goldbach's Conjecture

At 09:53 AM 06/20/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Ted White wrote:
>
> > So are you saying that "the average IQ at a WSFA meeting" equates to
> all WSFAns
> > averaging in the top two percentiles of IQ?
>
>I find that the average WSFAn is quicker on the uptake, and has a far
>wider range of knowlege and interest than the average Mensan.
>
>As to test scores, who knows?

The DC area Mensans are just plain boring.  Very few of them know anything
about anything.  They've taken a test and have been told they are smart and
clever, but they aren't.

I'm not *exactly* sure what my IQ is, because I wasn't tested as a child,
but I do know that it's at least 2 standard deviations above the norm.  I
do know what my daughter's IQ is (and please don't share this with her,
because she does not have a "need to know").  Her aggregate IQ is 140.  The
reason it is so low is that her "processing speed" is 86.  *Everything*
else is well above 140 with verbal being 157.  Admittedly, it is possible
for a parent to have offspring that are sports, but...  That's not normally
the case.

No, I don't know my IQ, but she got it from somewhere and looking at the
rest of my family, I'm pretty sure that at least some of it came from me.

Candy