Triple Nine Society

The Triple Nine Society was founded in 1978.[3] Executive Committee Officers serve for two-year terms, six by election (Regent, Ombudsman and four Members-at-Large) and three by Appointment with annual performance reviews (Financial Officer, Membership Officer and Vidya Editor). Voting for Officers occurs from February 1 through March 1 inclusive, in even-numbered years.

In 2015 TNS established a 501(c)(3) subsidiary charitable organization, the Triple Nine Society Foundation, to provide scholarships to intellectually gifted students pursuing higher education goals, to educate the public about the needs of very intellectually gifted people, and for other charitable work.

Triple Nine encourages members to freely express their views in keeping with the Society's commitment to friendship and intellectual growth. The preamble to the Triple Nine Society constitution reads as follows:

The Triple Nine Society is committed to friendship, communication, the adventure of intellectual exploration, and a greater realization of individual potentials. It neither sanctions the imposition of one person's philosophy on another nor subscribes to any particular philosophy for its members. It will strive to avoid the insularity of mere exclusiveness. The guiding principle of the Society is democratic and collegial rather than hierarchical. The Society will remain open to innovation and evolution.

TNS publishes a bimonthly journal, Vidya, which contains articles, poetry and other creative content contributed by members conversant with a variety of subjects, as well as Officers' Reports and other official business of the Society. TNS members communicate with one another online through email lists, a Facebook group, two Yahoo! Groups, a LinkedIn group and a scheduled weekly IRC chat; European members have established a group in XING and a French language members-only Yahoo! Group. In the autumn, TNS sponsors an annual meeting in the United States called the "ggg999" meeting,[6] the "ggg" referring to "Global General Gathering".[7] A European meeting ("egg999") is arranged in the spring. TNS also helps its members to organise their own, informal TNS gatherings by maintaining a members-only database and a Member Map.

To qualify for membership, an applicant must submit a qualifying score earned on any of the standardized tests recognized by the Society; these include IQ tests as well as various college admissions exams and military classification tests.

For IQ tests, a qualifying score corresponds to an IQ of at least 146 for tests with standard deviation of 15 (e.g., WAIS-III/IV/V, Stanford-Binet 5, Raven's APM), at least 149 for tests with a standard deviation of 16 (e.g., Stanford-Binet IV and CTMM), or at least 173 for tests with a standard deviation of 24 (e.g., Cattell III-B).[8] In comparison, Mensa International, a high IQ society with a member base in the tens-of-thousands, admits applicants who score at or above the 98th percentile, which corresponds with an IQ score of at least 130 (SD 15), 132 (SD 16), or 148 (SD 24).

TNS also qualifies applicants based on standardized test scores that have well-established psychometric correlations with IQ, including pre-2005 SAT (1450 or 1520 depending on year taken), pre–November 2001 GRE (1460 or 2180 depending on year taken), LSAT (46, 48, 173 or 730 depending on year taken), ACT (32 or 34 depending on year taken), and the Miller Analogies Test (472 scaled or 85 raw).[2]

• Robert Forster (1941–2019), actor in Jackie Brown and Breaking Bad.[9]
• Andrew York (b.1958), American classical guitarist and composer.[10]

• Sangosti, R. J. (June 21, 2005). "Smarter than 99.9% of the rest of us". The Denver Post. p. 1F.

• Official website