New Prometheus Society Membership Cards

Our Membership Officer, Alfred Simpson, is currently working on new membership cards. Current Members will be eligible to receive the cards. If you're a lapsed Member, now's the time to get back to active status!

Accepted Prometheus Society Admissions Tests

UPDATE: This information is outdated. Only the MAT is accepted as of 2014.

Since there have been some recent inquiries, here is a list you may use to determine if you might qualify for membership in Prometheus:

MAT 98 
Cattell Culture Fair III (A+B) 88 
WAIS-R 160 
Mega* 36 *(taken on or before April 24, 1999)
Titan* 36 *(taken on or before April 24, 1999)
LAIT* 164 *(scored before December 31, 1993)
"old" SAT* 1560 *(taken before April 1, 1995)
"old" GRE* 1610 *(taken before October 1, 1981)
Mega27* 21 *(taken before November 17, 1999)

*For these tests, new scores are no longer being accepted.

NOTES: The Prometheus Society officers have voted that Mega27 score sheets dated after 11/27/99 will not be accepted for admission to the Prometheus Society. This measure is being taken in response to compromises of the Mega27 test. Score reports for other tests may be deemed inadmissible if it is determined that such tests have been subject to compromise.

Requests to Join Prometheus Society Facebook Group

REMINDER: 

You will NOT be admitted to the Prometheus Society Facebook group if you are not a Prometheus Society member or subscriber. In this respect, we are not like the dozens of high-IQ groups on Facebook who admit individuals without regard to their qualifications for the society the group represents. 

If you do qualify and would like to be added, please send a message to the Admin when you submit your request. If you are a current member of the group, please do NOT invite non-qualified individuals to join the group. Such individuals will not be admitted.

Prometheus Society Member Marc Sparagen on Jeopardy

Prometheus Society member Marc Spraragen appears television on Monday, February 26, 2007. He'll be fielding Alex's questions (or answers) on "Jeopardy" (check your local television listings for times). Tune in and cheer Marc on!

A new discussion list

One of our members just set up a new discussion list on Yahoo!Groups. It's called the Fire List Harmony Seekers. The group's description on its home page is: "Description
This group is an experimental group with the objective of achieving peace and harmony in the fire_list." So far, after several hours, the group has three members and two posts. Members of the Prometheus Society and the Fire List may join the group here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fire_list_harmony_seekers/

We'll have more news and info on this group as things develop.

It is not enough to have a good mind

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

--Rene Descartes

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Prometheus Society Founder Ronald Hoeflin, PhD Featured in Boing-Boing

Seen on the Web: High-IQ societies in the Village Voice from Boing-Boing. The ever-watchful eye of one of our most active members caught this gem and posted a link to it on the Fire List. It talks about Rachel Aviv's recent article in the Village Voice in which she profiled my friend--and yours--Prometheus Society founder Dr. Ronald Hoeflin. Of course, the Prometheus Society is also mentioned. This, said I, deserves a linkback. And so it has come to pass.

Boing-Boing has an excerpt from the Village Voice article. Here is an excerpt from that excerpt:

Hoeflin is fascinated by the idea of a "maximum human potential." Every afternoon, he goes to Wendy's in Hell's Kitchen and reads for several hours with a magnifying glass—he's legally blind—as preparation for his three-volume treatise, The Encyclopedia of Categories: A Theory of Categories and Unifying Paradigm for Philosophy With Over 1,000 Examples. He is kind, awkward, and modest, and tends to explain things with charts. When talking about his childhood, he goes to his bookshelf unprompted and offers the results of a personality test. "I should probably just show this to you," he says. "As you can see, I have this extreme sensitivity factor. So some things are really hard."

To read more of the Boing-Boing excerpt (and to see Boing-Boing for Boing-Boing's sake), follow this link: Boing-Boing goes the Prometheus Society. To go directly to GO, forfeiting a possible $400 prize until the next time around, and take a peek at the Village Voice article, click here: Education Supplement Fall 2006: The Intelligencer - Inside the hypercompetitive world of high-IQ societies.

Happy hyercompetitive reading. And congratulations to Ron.