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- From: clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
- Subject: Re: Triple Nine Society
- Message-ID: <Dec.23.08.53.25.1992.753@remus.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 13:53:26 GMT
- References: <Dec.22.07.47.25.1992.5832@romulus.rutgers.edu> <1h8uu7INNdl8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- In article <1h8uu7INNdl8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, Dan Diaz writes:
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- > So they have a nice journal, but is there any other reason to join? Why
- > does anyone have a need for high IQ societies other than Mensa?
-
- No more than anyone "needs" to go bowling, I imagine. As far as I'm
- concerned, an interesting journal is reason enough to join. I've always
- had an interest in intelligence and psychometrics, and the Triple Nine
- journal _Vidya_ seems to carry quite a few articles along these lines.
-
- > Is there something I am missing? Is it perhaps that some people need
- > an extra ego boost by joining 999 or 9999 or whatever? I cant imagine
- > that the AG's of such societies are very large. Oy vey.
-
- Any of my friends would tell you I certainly don't need an ego boost!
- The Triple Nine society has more members then the National Puzzler's
- League, yet the NPL has a nice gathering every year, so it certainly
- shouldn't be beyond the TNS to have one.
- --
- Chris Long, 265 Old York Rd., Bridgewater, NJ 08807-2618
-
- "S.B., with an I.Q. of 161, failed to complete his course of study,
- running away instead with his professor's wife."
- H. J. Eysenck, _Know Your Own I.Q._
-