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Noesis The Journal of the Poetic Society (Issue #16, July 1987) Editorial Ronald K. Hoeflin P. O. Box 7430 New York, NY 10116 New Admission Cut-off, Several members have expressed the view that it would be a good idea to reduce the Society's admission cut-off from a raw score of 43 to one of 42 on the Mega Test, since Omni magazine (April 1985) specified 42 as the cut-oft for the Mega Society. It soon became apparent that 42 was too low a cut-off for that society. I founded the Titan Society for those who had scored 43 or better on the Mega Test, thinking that this was about the one-in-100,000 level. My fourth norming of the Mega Test, published in issue #14 of this journal, puts the cut off for the Mega Society, the one-in-a-million level, at a raw score of 45, while 43 appears now to correspond to the one-in- 300,000 level. I see no harm, therefore, in reducing our cut-off to 42, which appears to be about the one-in-225,000 level. The following nine persons are therefore eligible to join this group. I include hers one person who recently scored 46 on the Mega Test plus eight who scored 42. Two or three of our current thirteen members actually scored 42 on their first attempts at the Mega Teat, incidentally. Those who wish to join should send as $5 to cover dues for the remainder of 1987. Rush Elkins Gary H. Memovioh Joshua Taylor 3302 Hastings Road 962 Weddell Dr., Apt. 11 Mirador Huntsville, AL 35801 Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Irvine, CA 92715 C. M. Langan Daniel L. Pratt Keith Andrew Tuson P. 0. Box 131 204 Mustang Court S.D. #4, Box 2070 Speonk, NY 11972 Gambrills, ND 21054 Manchester, NH 0310M Marvin Lee Christine B. Splan Uri Wilensky 241 B. 32 Ave. 2934 Victoria 9 Bowdoin St. Vancouver, B.C. Springfield, IL 62704 Arlington, MA 02174 Canada VBV 212 Renaming This Journal and Society: The poll results reported in issue #11, page 4, indicated that members preferred to call this society the Noetic Society rather than the Titan Society or any of a odds range of other suggested names. / have finally decided to go along With that preference, and I will accordingly now be calling this journal Nogais rather then Insight. According to the definition given in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary) "noetic" means "of, rela- ting to, or baserroi the intellect," which seems reasonably appro- The Editor (January 1961) priate for this group. About the Editor Ronald K. Hoeflin As for changing the name of this journal, / chose the appellation P. O. Box 7430 "noeste" because it is the noun form of "noetic." I also found that New York, FY 10116 "Insight" has already been employed as the name of at least two other publications. In New York Newsday, June 23, 1987, Part II, Page 3. in I was born February 23, 1944, in Richmond Heights, Missouri, • lengthy review of Allan Bloom's bestseller, The Closing of the Ameri- just outside the city limits of St. Louis. My father was an electri- can Mind, one paragraph reads as follows: cal engineer whose parents emigrated to the U.S.A. in the 1890's, his father coming from the Baden region of Germany and his mother from "In part, the book has been particularly well received in con- the Zurich region of Switzerland. My mother was an opera singer (in servative intellectual circles. The editors of Insight Magazine such roles as Tosca and Aids) whose ancestors originated from England, put Bloom on the cover and called the book 'certainly the most Scotland, and possibly Ireland, too. At least one of her ancestors important book we have read this year. The reviewer in The New arrived in this country in the 1740's. She grew up in Georgia, the Criterion called it 'an extraordinarily accurate diagnosis of daughter of an itinerant Methodist preacher. the current state of American civilisation.'" My parents were divorced when I was five. At eight / had an eye And in the New York Post June 30, 1987, page 46, in an article on how operation for detached retina. My visual acuity is now 10/60 in the to choose a mutual fund, two of the paragraphs read as follows: better eye with glasses. I read using bifocals plus a small magnifier. "Right now, hese not recommending Magellan to the 25,000 sub- I have attended seven colleges and universities: Caltech, Shimer scribers of his monthly Insight magazine. College, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of "'Of the 800,000 shareholders, 100,000 have no business in Magel- Minnesota in Minneapolis, Indiana University in Bloomington, the Uni- lan,' said Hobren, a former marketing executive at Fidelity." versity of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and the New School for Social Research here in New York City. I have two bachelors degrees (from Shiner and Minnesota), two masters degrees (from Indiana and the New School), and one doctorate (from the New School), the latter degree Letter to the Editor being in the field of philosophy, completed in May of this year (1987). Anthony J. Brunt I have been a member of all six high-/Q societies listed in the P. O. Box 867418 Encyclopedia of Associations: Mensa, Intertel, the International Society Plano, TX 75086 for Philosophical Enquiry, the Triple Nine Society, the Prometheus Soci- ety, and the Mega Society—but I currently belong to only three of I began reading your dissertation, and noticed that some of the theses Mensa, Triple Nine, and Prometheus. I am the founder of Pro- pages were photocopied correctly. Would you be so kind as to send me the following three pages: 15, 16, and 219? metheus and of the bootie Society (formerly called the Titan Society). I consider myself the founder of the Mega Society, although some argue In the meantime, I'm still trying to adjust to my new circum- that Chris Harding has at least equal claim th that status. / am also stances which resulted from a divorce and job termination. In a year a Co-founder of the Triple Nine Society. Thus, I have been at least or so, I hope to have my personal life in order, and then I can take partly responsible for the establishment of four of the seven currently a more active role in the Titan Society. active high-IQ societies. My chief hobbies are editing journals for the Triple Nine and Editor's comment: / promised once to the members, I believe, to Noetic societies and designing and scoring IQ tests for admission to offer an abstract of my dissertation in this journal, but I never got these various societies. I was a professional librarian for fifteen around to it, so I offer it below. The dissertation is better than years, but ten of these were part-time. I currently support the abstract, I think. Any member who wants a copy of the disserta- myself chiefly by editing the Triple Nine journal, from which I can make about tion should send me $20 for printing and postage. $175 per month. I also made about $30,000 from the appearance of my When I started to type the foregoing note from Kr. Bruni, I had Mega Test in the April 1985 issue of Omni magazine. The Mega Test is forgotten his mention of a divorce, which perhapo it might not be en- accepted as an admissions test by all high-/Q societies except Mensa tirely proper for me to report to the membership. But speaking for and Intertel. My other interests include classical music and sci-fi. myself, I'd rather have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, I am currently preparing a new IQ test for possible publication as the saying goes. I'm 41 years old and have never been married, in Omni, and / hope to use that occasion, if it occurs, to launch my whereas one of our members, Marilyn vos Savant, is launching her third own independent high-IQ journal, to be titled either In-Genius or, The ship of matrimony on August 23, which makes me feel somewhat retarded Generalist, in order to free myself from dependence on the whims of the in my own social development. Triple Nine Society's Executive Committee or any other employer. Ramanujan wasn't born a hundred Such mathematics has helped drive years later," he said. "We're trying one of the major new conceptions-of Dissertation Abstract to do problems in several variables theoretical physics, superst ring now — the problems are harder, and theory, as the physicist Freeman Ronald K. Hoeflin it would be marvelous to have some- Dyson told a Ramanujan conference P. 0. Box 7430 body with his intuition to help get last month. "As pure mathematics, II New York, NY 10116 started." is as beautiful as any of the other Not that his intuition was infallible. flowers that grew from seeds that ri- Title: The Roo t -Me tachor Theory: A Critical Appraisal of Stephen a. Ramanujan made some errors, once pened in Ramanujan's garden," he Pepper's Theory of Metaphysics Through an Analysis of Its Interpreta- said. claiming to have found a formula for acs •f the Concepts of Truth, Beauty and Goodness. the approximate number of primes Another identity was used last year less than any given number. No such to enable a computer to calculate mil- An attempt is made to show how several major theories of truth, beauty, formula exists.

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