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'{{About||the television series|Triple Nine (TV series)}} {{Infobox organization |name = Triple Nine Society |image = Triple Nine Society (emblem).svg |caption = |formation = 1978 |type = [[High IQ society]] |membership = 1,900+ |language = English |leader_title = Regent/Chairman |leader_name = Eric Zimmermann |website = {{URL|www.triplenine.org}} }} The '''Triple Nine Society''' ('''TNS''') is an international [[high IQ society]] for adults whose score on a [[standardised test]] demonstrates an [[IQ]] at or above the 99.9th [[percentile]] of the [[human population]]. The Society recognizes scores from over 20 different tests of adult intelligence.<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 |publisher= Triple Nine Society|access-date= November 13, 2017}}</ref> The Triple Nine Society is a non-profit, [[501(c)(7)|501(c)(7) organization]] incorporated in [[Virginia]], USA. The organization was founded in 1978.<ref name = "About TNS"/> {{As of| October 2018}}, TNS reports a member base of over 1,900 adults residing in 50 countries.<ref name="About TNS">{{cite web|url=http://www.triplenine.org/WhatisTNS.aspx|title=What Is TNS?|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|first=|date=|website=triplenine.org|publisher=Triple Nine Society|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=October 14, 2018}}</ref> The Society's constitution encourages friendship, communication, and intellectual exploration.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.triplenine.org/Portals/0/PublicDocs/Constitution-of-the-Triple-Nine-Society.pdf |title=Constitution of the Triple Nine Society |website=triplenine.org |publisher=Triple Nine Society |page=1 |access-date=July 10, 2017}}</ref> TNS members communicate online, at gatherings, and through ''Vidya'', the Society's bimonthly journal. ==History== The Triple Nine Society was founded in 1978 on [[democracy|democratic]] principles. 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. ==Communication== Officially, 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: {{quote|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.}} However, in practice members have complained that TNS members are assigned a "social score" based on one's political stances and expressing one's opinions too strongly. This social score determines one's placement and status within the group, similar to China's "social score" policy. 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]] [[mailing list|lists]], a [[Facebook]] [[Facebook groups|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,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.triplenine.org/WhyJoin/ggg999-TheNorthAmericanMeeting.aspx |title=ggg999 - The North American Meeting |website=triplenine.org |publisher=Triple Nine Society |access-date=July 10, 2017}}</ref> the "ggg" referring to "Global General Gathering."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.triplenine.org/Portals/0/Docs/Vidya/pdf/Vidya258-259.pdf |title=Vidya 258 |website=triplenine.org |publisher=Triple Nine Society |access-date=March 31, 2019}}</ref> 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. ==Qualifying test scores== To qualify for membership, an applicant must submit a qualifying score earned on any of the [[standardised test]]s recognised by the Society; these include [[IQ test]]s 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).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hunt |first=Earl |title=Human Intelligence |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-521-70781-7 |oclc=900268273 |year=2011 |page=8}}</ref> 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 test|SAT]] (1450 or 1520 depending on year taken), pre–November 2001 [[GRE test|GRE]] (1460 or 2180 depending on year taken), [[LSAT]] (46, 48, 173 or 730 depending on year taken), [[ACT test|ACT]] (32 or 34 depending on year taken), and the [[Miller Analogies Test]] (472 scaled or 85 raw), .<ref name = "TestScores"/> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Further reading== * {{cite news |title=Smarter than 99.9% of the rest of us |last=Sangosti |first=R. J. |date=June 21, 2005 |url=http://ed.schreiber.org/tns/Post/ |newspaper=[[The Denver Post]] |page=1F}} ==External links== * {{Official website}} {{High IQ}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Triple Nine Society}} [[Category:Organizations established in 1978]] [[Category:High IQ societies]] [[Category:Organizations based in the United States by membership]]'