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Been wanting to make a home page for awhile. Here it is: https://gigasociety.com/iqsocieties/grail.html . Any questions for me (Thoth)?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Wednesday April 14 2021, @01:34AM
For several reasons this value can not be correct; for instance, the mean and σ of the group of all humans that have lived will not be the same as those of the current adult Western population to which our norms refer; projected onto today's I.Q. scale, the level of 1 in 100 billion Homo sapiens is logically somewhat below 200 but higher than 190. And a normal distribution of that total group may be incompatible with normal distributions with different means and σs of the subgroups that comprise it, such as sexes, historical eras, subspecies, or peoples (although on the other hand, amalgams of normal distributions do tend toward normality themselves). And an actual distribution is never exactly "normal", let alone at such an extreme distance from the mean (actually it can on good grounds only be expected to approximate normality within plus or minus about 2 σ from the mean). So that is why the admission level is called "ideal".
For reasons of simplicity and symbolism though, a straightforward ".99999999999" or "1 - 10-11" will suffice to become the Grail Society's member. Qualifying tests: all of the tests by Paul Cooijmans with norms at or above that level, as well as a score on the (free of charge) Test for extrasensory perception exceeding or equal to a probability of 1 in 1011.
Who on Earth is Thoth?
Please do not confuse the society's admission level with popularly published childhood mental/biological age ratio I.Q.'s, which reach much higher levels like over 300, but are not at all comparable to adult deviation I.Q.'s. Please refrain from questions like "Why is not Mr/Mrs X., who is said to have an I.Q. of ... (250, 300, or whatever astronomical number) the Grail Society member?", that have been asked by scores of ignoramuses already. Be not misled by megalomanic schizophrenics who in their grandiosity associate themselves with the Grail Society based on delusional claims regarding ability, achievement, or test performance. Be assured that no one has ever come close to I.Q. 200, that the highest I.Q. to be realistically expected on Earth is about 185, and that only through tentative challenging norms in unexplored score ranges someone will one day qualify."
It's much worse than you portray here. Scores above ~130 are above the rating of every member of committee involved in designing the test; which means they're all equivalently out of bounds. To put it another way; there's good reason to think that these scores are meaningful below that point. A person who scores 130 is better at parsing than someone that scores 120, than 110, than 100, and so on.
But if you have a 150 and a 170? Flip a coin. Maybe the 170 really parses better, maybe the 150 does. All we know for sure is that both of them parse better than anyone involved in developing the test.
"Who on Earth is Thoth?
Actually, the future Grail Society member has been contacting the founder already under the pseudonym "Thoth" since early 2001 through t-mail, a variant of e-mail invented by Thoth (and also used by remotely future Giga Society members) that allows sending a message to the past or future. Thoth resides in the White Lodge, a niche in time-space where one can observe the destruction of the Earth by meteorite impact on [date censored]. Who Thoth is is unknown. Thoth will apparently qualify in the future, but this has not happened yet. In fact, Thoth could be any one of you reading this. Thoth could be you. Does not that excite you?"
Hindi-English sometimes has a lyrical beauty to it, but not in this case. I am not excited.
The future Neos have contacted the founder already under the pseudonym 'Arik' since 1986 through A-mail, a more advanced predecessor of e-mail invented by Arik (and also used by future Neos) that allows the sending of a message to the past, future, or hypothetical alternative timelines. Arik resides in the Igloo of the Red Heifer, under the great Bhodi tree, a niche in time-space where particularly conscientious souls are sometimes nursed back to health after looking at the sun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQXizLx6_ZY