high-IQ society
Enable an agent to recognise a high-IQ society, assess its membership rules and organisational state, and determine which participation or administrative actions are permitted.
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6 bundles · 11 layers · 16 findings · 26 questions
Identity and authority Establishes which organisation operates the society and controls its intelligence-based membership boundary.
Organisational identity
Locates the society's identity, governing instrument and declared purpose.
Constituted membership body
Record evidence that the entity is an ongoing membership association and identify its responsible organisational body.
- Which governing instrument establishes the society's purpose and intelligence-based membership condition? provenance
- What legal form, jurisdiction and registration identifiers, if any, identify the body responsible for members and admissions? definition
Parent and chapter powers
Separates independent societies from affiliated bodies with delegated functions.
Admission authority
Record who may set qualification rules, administer assessments and approve membership across organisational levels.
- Is this entity an independent society, a national affiliate or a local chapter, and what instrument establishes that relationship? boundary
- Which body may change the threshold, accept a new assessment or recognise membership granted elsewhere? action
Qualification and evidence Defines the intelligence-assessment boundary and the evidence needed to apply it.
Threshold interpretation
Makes the required assessment performance precise and comparable only where justified.
Interpretable cutoff
Record the society's actual cutoff together with the assessment-specific information needed to interpret it.
- What percentile or score is required for each accepted assessment version, and which scale and reference population does it use? measurement
- How does the policy handle rounded scores, uncertainty intervals or results exactly at the cutoff? boundary
Accepted assessment evidence
Identifies admissible assessments, administration conditions and verification requirements.
Qualification evidence rules
Record what makes a submitted result acceptable under the applicable policy without independently endorsing the assessment.
- Which assessments, versions, administration modes and result dates are accepted, and where is that acceptance documented? provenance
- What identity, examiner or issuing-body checks are required, and how are unsupervised results and repeat attempts treated? action
Admission and membership standing Connects qualification evidence to admission decisions and continuing membership rights.
Admission decisions
Captures requirements beyond the cutoff and routes for reviewing disputed decisions.
Eligibility to admission
Record how verified qualification becomes a membership decision, including additional conditions and exceptions.
- Besides accepted assessment evidence, what age, application, dues or conduct conditions must an applicant satisfy? definition
- Who decides borderline or rejected applications, and what correction or appeal route is available? action
Continuing standing
Tracks membership classes, rights and transitions after admission.
Qualification and current rights
Separate retained qualification evidence from active membership, voting eligibility and access to member services.
- Which membership classes require the assessment threshold, and what participation or voting rights attach to each? boundary
- What happens to qualification recognition and member rights after dues lapse, resignation, suspension or a change in accepted assessments? action
Member community and stewardship Captures what members participate in and how the society sustains and governs that activity.
Community participation
Records actual member activities and the boundaries around attendance and representation.
Member offerings and access
Identify documented meetings, discussion groups, publications or other activities and their access conditions.
- What recurring activities or services are evidenced, and which require active membership or allow guests? provenance
- Which conduct and moderation rules govern participation, and who may speak on behalf of the society? action
Governance and continuity
Records member control, financial support and consequences of organisational change.
Society stewardship
Identify the decision processes and resources that maintain the society and govern dormancy, merger or dissolution.
- How are governing officers selected, qualification-policy amendments approved and membership or assessment fees authorised? action
- If the society becomes dormant, merges or dissolves, what rules govern memberships, qualification recognition, funds and records? action
Privacy and representation Constrains the handling of qualification evidence and the claims made about membership.
Assessment-record privacy
Separates evidence needed for admission from information appropriate for member directories or public disclosure.
Restricted qualification records
Record permitted collection, access, retention and disclosure of scores, identity evidence and membership status.
- Which qualification records are retained, for what purposes and periods, and which roles may access them? definition
- What authorisation is required to disclose membership or scores, transfer evidence between chapters or use records for research? action
Membership claim boundaries
Defines what admission and member credentials establish and how those claims can be verified.
Bounded membership verification
Record the scope of membership attestations without converting admission into a broader personal or professional assessment.
- Does an attestation establish current membership, qualification under a dated policy or a particular verified result? boundary
- How can an authorised party verify or correct a membership claim while disclosing only the permitted information? action
Evidence and external alignment What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.
Reported evidence
Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.
Check these first
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these check these first hold for the sense of high-IQ society this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Real-world use
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of high-IQ society this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Typical measurements
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of high-IQ society this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Failure modes and hazards
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of high-IQ society this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Regional variation
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of high-IQ society this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of high-IQ society this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.ORG
What it is Filled
A high-IQ society is a membership organisation whose admission criteria require evidence of performance at or above a specified high percentile on accepted standardised intelligence tests.
In scope
- Organisational identity, jurisdiction, legal form and relationships between parent societies and chapters
- Intelligence-based eligibility thresholds, accepted assessments and evidence requirements
- Admission, renewal, resignation, suspension and appeal processes
- Governance, decision rights and changes to qualification policy
- Member interaction, intellectual activities and member-facing services
- Privacy, retention and authorised use of assessment and membership records
Out of scope
- The design, standardisation and clinical interpretation of intelligence tests
- A person's overall intelligence, worth, clinical condition or educational needs
- Gifted education programmes and psychological assessment services as independent services
- Buildings, websites and brands as independently managed assets
- Independent research institutes or advocacy organisations merely associated with members
Why it exists Filled
Enable an agent to recognise a high-IQ society, assess its membership rules and organisational state, and determine which participation or administrative actions are permitted.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Published or otherwise verifiable admission rules make an intelligence-assessment threshold a condition of ordinary membership; an intellectual discussion club may have no such condition.
- The entity maintains an ongoing membership organisation beyond administering a test or issuing a score certificate.
- Qualification depends on specified assessment evidence rather than solely on academic credentials, professional achievement, nomination or self-identification as gifted.
- A chapter's authority to admit members and set thresholds can be distinguished from the authority of an affiliated parent society.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Estimate or announce a person's IQ from their writing, speech or appearance.
- Present membership as proof of a person's worth or as grounds to rank people.
- Share a person's test scores or membership without consent.
- Use IQ claims to support views of group superiority.
Only with a human decision
- Administering or interpreting an IQ test, which belongs to qualified psychologists.
May
- Describe high-IQ societies and their admission criteria in general terms.
- Explain what intelligence tests can and cannot measure.
Moral aspects Filled
- Intelligence scores have been used to stigmatize and exclude people and groups.
- Test scores are sensitive personal data.
Who is affected
- Members and applicants
- People judged by IQ
- Children labelled by tests
Owners Filled
Steward
The members of each society, through its own governance.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q43229 - registry parent class
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.high-iq-society
- Wikidata: Q1514395 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1514395)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- Organisational identity: Registered entity or unincorporated association; governing instrument; jurisdiction; register identifier where applicable
- Qualification threshold: Required percentile or qualifying score, accompanied by assessment version, scale, reference population and policy effective date
- Accepted qualification routes: Society-administered assessment, accepted external assessment, historical evidence or documented alternative route
- Admission policy status: Current, proposed, superseded or unverified; effective dates and approving authority
- Membership classes: Society-defined classes with qualification requirements, age conditions, dues and voting rights
- Affiliation and delegated authority: Parent society, national body or local chapter; delegated admission, testing and governance powers
- Operational state: Forming, active, dormant, merging or dissolved, supported by dated evidence
- Assessment-record handling: Recorded purposes, authorised roles, retention periods, disclosure rules and deletion procedures
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
An organisation has no intrinsic visual appearance that reliably establishes its admission criteria or organisational identity.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- Compare documented applicant evidence with the applicable qualification policy and flag cases requiring authorised review.
- Identify valid admission routes and explain missing evidence without inferring a person's intelligence.
- Route applications, renewals and appeals to the society or chapter empowered to decide them.
- Determine access to activities and voting from membership class and current standing.
- Trace proposed threshold or assessment-list changes to their approving authority and affected applicants.
- Identify permitted uses and disposal procedures for qualification and membership records.
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Unsupervised or unaccepted tests produce misleading scores.
- Elitism and misuse of scores can harm members and others.
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- The United Nations Statistics Division's International Standard Industrial Classification, Revision 4, class 9499 covers activities of other membership organisations and is applicable to societies organised around shared intellectual interests.
Context of use required Filled
- These organisations provide social, intellectual and networking activities for members who meet specified intelligence test admission criteria.
- They are encountered through membership applications, discussion groups, publications and organised events.
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q1514395: high-IQ society - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: High-IQ society - general description of the item
Open questions
- What minimum organisational continuity distinguishes a high-IQ society from a score certificate programme or informal online list?
- Must every ordinary member qualify through an intelligence assessment, or can some alternative admission routes remain within this registry concept?
- How should assessment acceptance and psychometric support be evaluated separately, especially for historical, unsupervised or extreme-tail qualifying results?
- When should a national affiliate be represented as an independent society rather than a chapter of the same organisation?
- Which jurisdiction-specific requirements govern assessment records, minors' participation and disclosures of membership?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q1514395/spec.json