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From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: RACE and IQ
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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 01:53:45 GMT
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In article <zlsiida.209.2EAE2FAB@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>,
Dave Budd <zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> wrote:
>In article <387k9g$9hl@newsbf01.news.aol.com> epfaith@aol.com (EPFaith) writes:
>>A lot of people would.  One in 500 people have an IQ of 140 or better,
>
>Which scale?  On the Cattell scale the minimum for Mensa is, I think, 145, 
>and that takes the upper 2% of the population.  Your 1 in 500 is only 0.2%
>Maybe I'm wrong about the 145 and it's 140, and you accidentally moved the 
>decimal point?

The Mensa requirement (98th percentile) is satisfied by a score of 132 on
CTMM, CTCS, Stanford Binet, or Otis-Lennon; 131 on Otis-Gamma; and 130 on
Wechsler.  If the Cattell scale equivalent is 145 then it is rather out of sync.
An IQ of 140 is considered genius, and if you have been to any Mensa functions
you know that you don't have to be a genius to join.
-- 
<J Q B>
