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The '''Triple Nine Society''' ('''TNS''') is an international [[high-IQ society]] for adults whose score on a [[standardised test|standardized test]] demonstrates an IQ at or above the 99.9th [[percentile]] of the human population.<ref name = "SA">{{cite magazine |last=Groeger |first=Lena |date=January 2015 |title=When High IQs Hang Out |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-high-iqs-hang-out1/ |magazine=[[Scientific American]] |access-date=September 8, 2022}}</ref><ref name = "DP">{{cite news |last=Cox |first=Jack |date=June 20, 2005 |title=Smarter than 99.9% of the rest of us |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2005/06/20/smarter-than-99-9-of-the-rest-of-us/ |work=The Denver Post |access-date=September 8, 2022}}</ref><ref name = "DT">{{cite magazine |last=Collins |first=Terry |date=December 12, 2014 |title=Luke Millanta has become a member of the world's IQ elite after joining Mensa |url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/central-coast/luke-millanta-has-become-a-member-of-the-worlds-iq-elite-after-joining-mensa/news-story/bb853e151c45f1c87429dbf6cbc8e253 |magazine=[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)]] |access-date=September 8, 2022}}</ref> The society recognizes scores from over 20 intelligence and academic aptitude tests.<ref name = "TestScores">{{cite web |url= http://www.triplenine.org/HowtoJoin/TestScores.aspx |title= Test Scores|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year= 2017 |website= Triple Nine Society|access-date=September 8, 2022}}</ref>
The '''Triple Nine Society''' ('''TNS''') is an international [[high-IQ society]] for adults whose score on a [[standardised test|standardized test]] demonstrates an [[IQ]] at or above the 99.9th [[percentile]] of the human population.<ref name = "SA">{{cite magazine |last=Groeger |first=Lena |date=January 2015 |title=When High IQs Hang Out |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-high-iqs-hang-out1/ |magazine=[[Scientific American]] |access-date=September 8, 2022}}</ref><ref name = "DP">{{cite news |last=Cox |first=Jack |date=June 20, 2005 |title=Smarter than 99.9% of the rest of us |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2005/06/20/smarter-than-99-9-of-the-rest-of-us/ |work=The Denver Post |access-date=September 8, 2022}}</ref><ref name = "DT">{{cite magazine |last=Collins |first=Terry |date=December 12, 2014 |title=Luke Millanta has become a member of the world's IQ elite after joining Mensa |url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/central-coast/luke-millanta-has-become-a-member-of-the-worlds-iq-elite-after-joining-mensa/news-story/bb853e151c45f1c87429dbf6cbc8e253 |magazine=[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)]] |access-date=September 8, 2022}}</ref> The society recognizes scores from over 20 intelligence and academic aptitude tests.<ref name = "TestScores">{{cite web |url= http://www.triplenine.org/HowtoJoin/TestScores.aspx |title= Test Scores|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year= 2017 |website= Triple Nine Society|access-date=September 8, 2022}}</ref> TNS was founded in 1978. Since 2010, it has been a non-profit [[501(c)(7)|501(c)(7) organization]] incorporated in Virginia, USA.<ref>"[https://cis.scc.virginia.gov/EntitySearch/BusinessInformation?businessId=183173&source=FromEntityResult&isSeries%20=%20false Triple Nine Society]". ''Clerk's Information System''. Virginia State Corporation Commission. Retrieved July 7, 2024.</ref> It is the second-largest high-IQ society after [[Mensa International|Mensa]]. {{As of|2024|February|df=US}}, TNS reports a member base of over 1,900 adults in 50 countries.<ref name = "TNSWhatIs" />
TNS was founded in 1978 and, since 2010, is a non-profit [[501(c)(7)|501(c)(7) organization]] incorporated in Virginia, USA. It is the second-largest high-IQ society after Mensa. {{As of|2024|February|df=US}}, TNS reports a member base of over 1,900 adults in 50 countries.<ref name = "TNSWhatIs" />


==Organization==
==Organization==
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TNS publishes a bimonthly journal, ''Vidya'', which contains articles, poetry, puzzles, and other creative content contributed by members conversant with a variety of subjects, as well as officer reports and other official business of the Society.<ref name = "Vidya">{{cite web |url=https://www.triplenine.org/Vidya.aspx |title=Vidya |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= 2024|website=Triple Nine Society |access-date=February 18, 2024}}</ref>
TNS publishes a bimonthly journal, ''Vidya'', which contains articles, poetry, puzzles, and other creative content contributed by members conversant with a variety of subjects, as well as officer reports and other official business of the Society.<ref name = "Vidya">{{cite web |url=https://www.triplenine.org/Vidya.aspx |title=Vidya |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= 2024|website=Triple Nine Society |access-date=February 18, 2024}}</ref>


TNS members mostly communicate online on the [[Discourse (software)|official TNS Discourse]] forum, official [[Facebook group|TNS Facebook group]], and a variety of unofficial venues ranging from [[Discord]] to [[Telegram (software)|Telegram]] and special groups like TNS Youth and TNS LGBTQ+.
TNS members mostly communicate online on the official TNS [[Discourse (software)|Discourse]] forum, official TNS [[Facebook]] group, and a variety of unofficial venues ranging from [[Discord]] to [[Telegram (software)|Telegram]] and special groups like TNS Youth and TNS LGBTQ+.


Every autumn, the society organizes an annual meeting in the United States called ''ggg999'',<ref name = "GGG999">{{cite web |url=https://ggg999.org/ |title=ggg999 – The annual gathering of the Triple Nine Society |website=Triple Nine Society |access-date=February 18, 2024}}</ref> with "ggg" referring to "Global General Gathering". A European gathering, ''egg999'', usually takes place in late spring.
Every autumn, the society organizes an annual meeting in the United States called ''ggg999'',<ref name = "GGG999">{{cite web |url=https://ggg999.org/ |title=ggg999 – The annual gathering of the Triple Nine Society |website=Triple Nine Society |access-date=February 18, 2024}}</ref> with "ggg" referring to "Global General Gathering". A privately organized European gathering, ''egg'', usually takes place in late spring.


==Qualifying test scores==
==Qualifying test scores==
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==Notable members==
==Notable members==
* [[Robert Forster]] (1941–2019) — actor in ''[[Jackie Brown]]'' and ''[[Breaking Bad]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/10/robert-forster-obituary-el-camino-film-1202758555|title=Robert Forster Dies|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|first=Bruce|last=Haring|date=12 October 2019|access-date=February 18, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Robert Forster]] (1941–2019) — actor in ''[[Jackie Brown]]'' and ''[[Breaking Bad]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/10/robert-forster-obituary-el-camino-film-1202758555|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191012032252/https://deadline.com/2019/10/robert-forster-obituary-el-camino-film-1202758555/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 12, 2019|title=Robert Forster Dies|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|first=Bruce|last=Haring|date=12 October 2019|access-date=February 18, 2024}}</ref>
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* [[Ronald K. Hoeflin]] (b. February 23, 1944) — American librarian, philosopher and amateur psychometrician
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* [[Mike Keefe]] (born November 6 1946, in Santa Rosa, California) — American editorial cartoonist best known for his work at ''The Denver Post'', for which he drew cartoons from 1975 to 2011; won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning<ref name=WashingtonPost>{{cite news|last=Cavna|first=Michael|title=THE PULITZERS: Denver’s Mike Keefe wins for Editorial Cartooning|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/the-pulitzers-denvers-mike-keefe-wins-for-editorial-cartooning/2011/04/18/AFPvUg0D_blog.html|publisher=The Washington Post Company|access-date=February 2, 2013|date=April 18, 2011}}</ref>
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* [[Andrew Koenig (programmer)]] (born June 1952) — former AT&T and Bell Labs researcher and programmer,<ref>Nair, R B (2013) 'ANDREW R KOENIG | LBS kuttipedia'. https://lbsitbytes2010.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/andrew-r-koenig/</ref> his name is associated with argument-dependent name lookup, also known as "Koenig lookup"<ref name="adl">{{cite web|url=http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill02.htm|title=What's In a Class?&nbsp;— The Interface Principle|last=Sutter|first=Herb|author-link=Herb Sutter|date=March 1998|publisher=C++ Report|access-date=21 February 2010}}</ref>
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* [[Henry Milligan|Henry "Hammerin' Hank" Milligan]] (b.1958) — American retired professional boxer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://iq-tests.org/famous-mensa-members.html |title=11 Famous Mensa Members |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=iq-tests.org |access-date=February 18, 2024 |quote=Better known as Hammerin' Hank, Henry Milligan was a professional boxer.…You'd never suspect that he was a member of both Mensa and the Triple Nine Society.}}</ref>
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* [[Jack Schaeffer]] (born March 19, 1946, Los Angeles, California) — American musician, recording artist, record producer and arranger
* [[Andrew York (guitarist)|Andrew York]] (b.1958) — American classical guitarist and composer<ref>{{cite magazine |last=York |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew York (guitarist) |date=December 2016 |title=Bowling Balls and Binary Switches |url=http://www.triplenine.org/portals/0/PublicDocs/Vidya/vidya_342-343_AY_reprint.pdf |magazine=Vidya |publisher=Triple Nine Society |access-date=February 18, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Andrew York (guitarist)|Andrew York]] (b.1958) — American classical guitarist and composer<ref>{{cite magazine |last=York |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew York (guitarist) |date=December 2016 |title=Bowling Balls and Binary Switches |url=http://www.triplenine.org/portals/0/PublicDocs/Vidya/vidya_342-343_AY_reprint.pdf |magazine=Vidya |publisher=Triple Nine Society |access-date=February 18, 2024}}</ref>
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* [[Henry Milligan|Henry "Hammerin' Hank" Milligan]] (b.1958) — American retired professional boxer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://iq-tests.org/famous-mensa-members.html |title=11 Famous Mensa Members |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=iq-tests.org |access-date=February 18, 2024 |quote=Better known as Hammerin' Hank, Henry Milligan was a professional boxer.…You'd never suspect that he was a member of both Mensa and the Triple Nine Society.}}</ref>
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* [[Jack Schaeffer]] (born March 19, 1946, Los Angeles, California) —American musician, recording artist, record producer and arranger
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* [[Mike Keefe]] (born November 6 1946, in Santa Rosa, California) — American editorial cartoonist best known for his work at ''The Denver Post'', for which he drew cartoons from 1975 to 2011; won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning<ref name=WashingtonPost>{{cite news|last=Cavna|first=Michael|title=THE PULITZERS: Denver’s Mike Keefe wins for Editorial Cartooning|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/the-pulitzers-denvers-mike-keefe-wins-for-editorial-cartooning/2011/04/18/AFPvUg0D_blog.html|publisher=The Washington Post Company|access-date=February 2, 2013|date=April 18, 2011}}</ref>
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* [[Andrew Koenig]] (born June 1952) — former AT&T and Bell Labs researcher and programmer<ref>Nair, R B (2013) 'ANDREW R KOENIG | LBS kuttipedia'. https://lbsitbytes2010.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/andrew-r-koenig/</ref> He is the author of C Traps and Pitfalls and co-author (with Barbara Moo) of Accelerated C++ and Ruminations on C++, and his name is associated with argument-dependent name lookup, also known as "Koenig lookup".<ref name="adl">{{cite web|url=http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill02.htm|title=What's In a Class?&nbsp;— The Interface Principle|last=Sutter|first=Herb|author-link=Herb Sutter|date=March 1998|publisher=C++ Report|access-date=21 February 2010}}</ref>
* Andrew Straw (b.1969) — American civil rights attorney with disabilities who advocates through litigation and political activism
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* [[Ronald K. Hoeflin]] (b. February 23, 1944) — American philosopher whose main area of research is human intelligence
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==See also==
==See also==
*[[Mensa International|Mensa]], high-IQ society
*[[Mensa International|Mensa]], high-IQ society above the 98th percentile
*[[Intertel]], high-IQ society
*[[Intertel]], high-IQ society above the 99th pecentile


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 08:23, 2 December 2024

For the television series, see Triple Nine (TV series).
Triple Nine Society
Formation1978
TypeHigh IQ society
27-5473103[1]
Membership≈ 1,900[2]
Official language
English
Regent
Steve Condie
Websitetriplenine.org

The Triple Nine Society (TNS) is an international high-IQ society for adults whose score on a standardized test demonstrates an IQ at or above the 99.9th percentile of the human population.[3][4][5] The society recognizes scores from over 20 intelligence and academic aptitude tests.[6] TNS was founded in 1978. Since 2010, it has been a non-profit 501(c)(7) organization incorporated in Virginia, USA.[7] It is the second-largest high-IQ society after Mensa. As of February 2024, TNS reports a member base of over 1,900 adults in 50 countries.[2]

Organization

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TNS is a deliberately non-hierarchical society in which the membership is both the main source of authority and the main driver of activity. It is served by an Executive Committee of nine officers; six are elected for two-year terms, and three are appointed.[8]

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 and for other charitable work.[9]

Communication

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TNS publishes a bimonthly journal, Vidya, which contains articles, poetry, puzzles, and other creative content contributed by members conversant with a variety of subjects, as well as officer reports and other official business of the Society.[10]

TNS members mostly communicate online on the official TNS Discourse forum, official TNS Facebook group, and a variety of unofficial venues ranging from Discord to Telegram and special groups like TNS Youth and TNS LGBTQ+.

Every autumn, the society organizes an annual meeting in the United States called ggg999,[11] with "ggg" referring to "Global General Gathering". A privately organized European gathering, egg, usually takes place in late spring.

Qualifying test scores

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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 admission 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, Stanford–Binet 5), 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).[12]

TNS also accepts standardized test scores that have a well-established psychometric correlation with IQ, including SAT, GRE, LSAT, ACT, and the Miller Analogies Test.[6] Required score will differ depending on the year those tests were taken.

Notable members

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  • Robert Forster (1941–2019) — actor in Jackie Brown and Breaking Bad[13]
  • Ronald K. Hoeflin (b. February 23, 1944) — American librarian, philosopher and amateur psychometrician
  • Mike Keefe (born November 6 1946, in Santa Rosa, California) — American editorial cartoonist best known for his work at The Denver Post, for which he drew cartoons from 1975 to 2011; won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning[14]
  • Andrew Koenig (programmer) (born June 1952) — former AT&T and Bell Labs researcher and programmer,[15] his name is associated with argument-dependent name lookup, also known as "Koenig lookup"[16]
  • Henry "Hammerin' Hank" Milligan (b.1958) — American retired professional boxer[17]
  • Jack Schaeffer (born March 19, 1946, Los Angeles, California) — American musician, recording artist, record producer and arranger
  • Andrew York (b.1958) — American classical guitarist and composer[18]

See also

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  • Mensa, high-IQ society above the 98th percentile
  • Intertel, high-IQ society above the 99th pecentile

References

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  1. ^ "Triple Nine Society". Tax Exempt Organization Search. Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved July 7, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "What is TNS?". Triple Nine Society. 2023. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  3. ^ Groeger, Lena (January 2015). "When High IQs Hang Out". Scientific American. Retrieved September 8, 2022.
  4. ^ Cox, Jack (June 20, 2005). "Smarter than 99.9% of the rest of us". The Denver Post. Retrieved September 8, 2022.
  5. ^ Collins, Terry (December 12, 2014). "Luke Millanta has become a member of the world's IQ elite after joining Mensa". The Daily Telegraph (Sydney). Retrieved September 8, 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Test Scores". Triple Nine Society. 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2022.
  7. ^ "Triple Nine Society". Clerk's Information System. Virginia State Corporation Commission. Retrieved July 7, 2024.
  8. ^ "Constitution of the Triple Nine Society". Triple Nine Society. February 18, 2024. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  9. ^ "Triple Nine Society Foundation". Triple Nine Society. February 18, 2024. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  10. ^ "Vidya". Triple Nine Society. 2024. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  11. ^ "ggg999 – The annual gathering of the Triple Nine Society". Triple Nine Society. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  12. ^ Hunt, Earl (2011). Human Intelligence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-521-70781-7. OCLC 900268273.
  13. ^ Haring, Bruce (12 October 2019). "Robert Forster Dies". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on October 12, 2019. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  14. ^ Cavna, Michael (April 18, 2011). "THE PULITZERS: Denver's Mike Keefe wins for Editorial Cartooning". The Washington Post Company. Retrieved February 2, 2013.
  15. ^ Nair, R B (2013) 'ANDREW R KOENIG | LBS kuttipedia'. https://lbsitbytes2010.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/andrew-r-koenig/
  16. ^ Sutter, Herb (March 1998). "What's In a Class? — The Interface Principle". C++ Report. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
  17. ^ "11 Famous Mensa Members". iq-tests.org. n.d. Retrieved February 18, 2024. Better known as Hammerin' Hank, Henry Milligan was a professional boxer.…You'd never suspect that he was a member of both Mensa and the Triple Nine Society.
  18. ^ York, Andrew (December 2016). "Bowling Balls and Binary Switches" (PDF). Vidya. Triple Nine Society. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
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