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"purpose": "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.", "definition": "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.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the society as a membership organisation whose admission criteria include evidence of performance above a specified threshold on accepted intelligence assessments, including its identity, qualification policy, governance, member activities and handling of admission evidence.", "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" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "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." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Organisational identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Registered entity or unincorporated association; governing instrument; jurisdiction; register identifier where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Identifies the body responsible for admissions, funds and member records." }, { "name": "Qualification threshold", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Required percentile or qualifying score, accompanied by assessment version, scale, reference population and policy effective date", "why_it_matters": "Makes the admission boundary interpretable without treating scores from different scales as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Accepted 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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." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe high-IQ societies and their admission criteria in general terms.", "Explain what intelligence tests can and cannot measure." ], "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." ], "requires_human": [ "Administering or interpreting an IQ test, which belongs to qualified psychologists." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Intelligence scores have been used to stigmatize and exclude people and groups.", "Test scores are sensitive personal data." ], "affected_parties": [ "Members and applicants", "People judged by IQ", "Children labelled by tests" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The members of each society, through its own governance.", "master_systems": [] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Unsupervised or unaccepted tests produce misleading scores.", "Elitism and misuse of scores can harm members and others." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "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." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "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." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "An organisation has no intrinsic visual appearance that reliably establishes its admission criteria or organisational identity." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q1514395: high-IQ society", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1514395", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: High-IQ society", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-IQ_society", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-authority", "name": "Identity and authority", "description": "Establishes which organisation operates the society and controls its intelligence-based membership boundary.", "rationale": "A society name or local chapter does not by itself establish legal responsibility or authority to admit members.", "layers": [ { "id": "organisational-identity", "name": "Organisational identity", "description": "Locates the society's identity, governing instrument and declared purpose.", "findings": [ { "id": "constituted-membership-body", "name": "Constituted membership body", "description": "Record evidence that the entity is an ongoing membership association and identify its responsible organisational body.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which governing instrument establishes the society's purpose and intelligence-based membership condition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "constituted-membership-body-q01" }, { "text": "What legal form, jurisdiction and registration identifiers, if any, identify the body responsible for members and admissions?", "kind": "definition", "id": "constituted-membership-body-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "parent-and-chapter-powers", "name": "Parent and chapter powers", "description": "Separates independent societies from affiliated bodies with delegated functions.", "findings": [ { "id": "admission-authority", "name": "Admission authority", "description": "Record who may set qualification rules, administer assessments and approve membership across organisational levels.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this entity an independent society, a national affiliate or a local chapter, and what instrument establishes that relationship?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "admission-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Which body may change the threshold, accept a new assessment or recognise membership granted elsewhere?", "kind": "action", "id": "admission-authority-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "qualification-and-evidence", "name": "Qualification and evidence", "description": "Defines the intelligence-assessment boundary and the evidence needed to apply it.", "rationale": "A numerical IQ claim alone cannot establish eligibility without its scale, assessment context and acceptance policy.", "layers": [ { "id": "threshold-interpretation", "name": "Threshold interpretation", "description": "Makes the required assessment performance precise and comparable only where justified.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretable-cutoff", "name": "Interpretable cutoff", "description": "Record the society's actual cutoff together with the assessment-specific information needed to interpret it.", "questions": [ { "text": "What percentile or score is required for each accepted assessment version, and which scale and reference population does it use?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-cutoff-q01" }, { "text": "How does the policy handle rounded scores, uncertainty intervals or results exactly at the cutoff?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "interpretable-cutoff-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accepted-assessment-evidence", "name": "Accepted assessment evidence", "description": "Identifies admissible assessments, administration conditions and verification requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-evidence-rules", "name": "Qualification evidence rules", "description": "Record what makes a submitted result acceptable under the applicable policy without independently endorsing the assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which assessments, versions, administration modes and result dates are accepted, and where is that acceptance documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualification-evidence-rules-q01" }, { "text": "What identity, examiner or issuing-body checks are required, and how are unsupervised results and repeat attempts treated?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualification-evidence-rules-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "admission-and-membership-standing", "name": "Admission and membership standing", "description": "Connects qualification evidence to admission decisions and continuing membership rights.", "rationale": "Meeting an assessment threshold and holding current membership are distinct states with different consequences.", "layers": [ { "id": "admission-decisions", "name": "Admission decisions", "description": "Captures requirements beyond the cutoff and routes 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member services.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which membership classes require the assessment threshold, and what participation or voting rights attach to each?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualification-and-current-rights-q01" }, { "text": "What happens to qualification recognition and member rights after dues lapse, resignation, suspension or a change in accepted assessments?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualification-and-current-rights-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "member-community-and-stewardship", "name": "Member community and stewardship", "description": "Captures what members participate in and how the society sustains and governs that activity.", "rationale": "The model must distinguish a functioning society from a qualification label and expose who controls its continuing operation.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-participation", "name": "Community participation", "description": "Records actual member activities and the boundaries around attendance and representation.", "findings": [ { "id": "member-offerings-and-access", "name": "Member offerings and access", "description": "Identify documented meetings, discussion groups, publications or other activities and their access conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What recurring activities or services are evidenced, and which require active membership or allow guests?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "member-offerings-and-access-q01" }, { "text": "Which conduct and moderation rules govern participation, and who may speak on behalf of the society?", "kind": "action", "id": "member-offerings-and-access-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-continuity", "name": "Governance and continuity", "description": "Records member control, financial support and consequences of organisational change.", "findings": [ { "id": "society-stewardship", "name": "Society stewardship", "description": "Identify the decision processes and resources that maintain the society and govern dormancy, merger or dissolution.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are governing officers selected, qualification-policy amendments approved and membership or assessment fees authorised?", "kind": "action", "id": "society-stewardship-q01" }, { "text": "If the society becomes dormant, merges or dissolves, what rules govern memberships, qualification recognition, funds and records?", "kind": "action", "id": "society-stewardship-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "privacy-and-representation", "name": "Privacy and representation", "description": "Constrains the handling of qualification evidence and the claims made about membership.", "rationale": "Admission involves personal assessment information, while public membership claims may imply more than the society actually verifies.", "layers": [ { "id": "assessment-record-privacy", "name": "Assessment-record privacy", "description": "Separates evidence needed for admission from information appropriate for member directories or public disclosure.", "findings": [ { "id": "restricted-qualification-records", "name": "Restricted qualification records", "description": "Record permitted collection, access, retention and disclosure of scores, identity evidence and membership status.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which qualification records are retained, for what purposes and periods, and which roles may access them?", "kind": "definition", "id": "restricted-qualification-records-q01" }, { "text": "What authorisation is required to disclose membership or scores, transfer evidence between chapters or use records for research?", "kind": "action", "id": "restricted-qualification-records-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership-claim-boundaries", "name": "Membership claim boundaries", "description": "Defines what admission and member credentials establish and how those claims can be verified.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-membership-verification", "name": "Bounded membership verification", "description": "Record the scope of membership attestations without converting admission into a broader personal or professional assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does an attestation establish current membership, qualification under a dated policy or a particular verified result?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-membership-verification-q01" }, { "text": "How can an authorised party verify or correct a membership claim while disclosing only the permitted information?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-membership-verification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This is recalled knowledge, not source-verified research.", "Check each society's current accepted tests, thresholds, age requirements and evidence rules before describing its admissions process.", "No universal identifier scheme, legal form or admission standard is asserted for this category." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of high-IQ society this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Providing social contact among people who meet the organisation's cognitive-test admission criteria.", "Organising lectures, discussions, gatherings and special-interest groups.", "Publishing member journals or newsletters.", "Some societies support intelligence research, education or scholarships." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of high-IQ society this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Admission threshold relative to a test's normative population", "typical_range": "Society-specific; examples include the 98th percentile for Mensa and the 99.9th percentile for the Triple Nine Society.", "unit": "percentile" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of high-IQ society this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating membership or an admission score as proof of expertise, sound judgement or personal worth.", "Comparing IQ scores without accounting for different scales, normative populations and test editions.", "Using inadequately validated tests or unreliable estimates at the extreme upper end of a score distribution.", "Unequal access to testing and differences in language, culture or disability accommodation affecting admission opportunities.", "Disclosure or misuse of applicants' cognitive-test records." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of high-IQ society this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Legal form, registration requirements and governance obligations depend on jurisdiction.", "Accepted tests and testing arrangements may differ between national organisations.", "International societies may operate through national organisations and local groups." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of high-IQ society this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Intellectual society", "difference": "Participation centres on intellectual interests or activities without necessarily requiring a qualifying intelligence-test score." }, { "name": "Learned society", "difference": "Membership centres on a scholarly discipline or professional achievement rather than a general intelligence-test threshold." }, { "name": "Gifted education programme", "difference": "Provides educational assessment or instruction rather than primarily constituting a membership organisation." }, { "name": "Mensa", "difference": "A particular high-IQ society, whereas high-IQ society names the broader organisational category." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "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?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "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?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }