Thanks for the odds corrections. I knew I got something wrong...
Two standard deviations is generally enough to get you into ‘gifted and talented’ programs, as they call them these days.
G&T stuff, yeah, but in the materials I’ve read 2sd is not enough to move you from ‘bright’ or ‘gifted and talented’ to ‘genius’ categories, which seems to usually be defined as >2.5-3sd, and using 3sd made the calculation easier.
Eh. MENSA requires upper 2% (which is ~2 standard deviations). Whether you label that ‘genius’ or ‘bright’ or something else doesn’t seem terribly important. 3.5 standard deviations is the 2.3 out of 10,000 level, which is about a hundred times more restrictive.
I’d call MENSA merely bright… You need something in between ‘normal’ and ‘genius’ and bright seems fine. Genius carries all the wrong connotations for something as common as MENSA-level; 2.3 out of 10k seems more reasonable.
Thanks for the odds corrections. I knew I got something wrong...
G&T stuff, yeah, but in the materials I’ve read 2sd is not enough to move you from ‘bright’ or ‘gifted and talented’ to ‘genius’ categories, which seems to usually be defined as >2.5-3sd, and using 3sd made the calculation easier.
Eh. MENSA requires upper 2% (which is ~2 standard deviations). Whether you label that ‘genius’ or ‘bright’ or something else doesn’t seem terribly important. 3.5 standard deviations is the 2.3 out of 10,000 level, which is about a hundred times more restrictive.
I’d call MENSA merely bright… You need something in between ‘normal’ and ‘genius’ and bright seems fine. Genius carries all the wrong connotations for something as common as MENSA-level; 2.3 out of 10k seems more reasonable.