Cerebrals Society

Infobox Organization
name = Cerebrals Society

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motto = All men by nature desire to know
formation = 1999
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type = High IQ Society
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membership = 252 (July 2008)
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leader_title = Founder
leader_name = Xavier Jouve, Ph.D.
key_people = Fivos Drymiotis, Stevan Damjanovic
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website = [http://www.cerebrals.org www.cerebrals.org]

Cerebrals Society is an international non-profit organization for people whose cognitive abilities have been assessed at or above 141 (SD15), i.e. the percentile rank of 99.7 [cite web
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title = Raiford, S.E., Weiss, L.G., Rolfhus E. & Coalson D. (2005). General Ability Index. (WISC–IV Technical Report No. 4).
accessdate = 2008-10-10] on standardized, professional psychometric scales. This means that membership is opened for the top 0.3% of people along the Wechsler's IQ spectrum.

History

Cerebrals was founded in December 1999 by Xavier Jouve after being identified as intellectually gifted. Over time the society has evolved into a growing organization which keeps providing its members with intellectual peerage and a chance to meet across distances thus reducing the sense of isolation (not at all physical) often present in varying degrees in highly gifted people. [Gross, M.U.M. (1993). Exceptionally gifted children. New York: Routledge.] [Kline, B.E. & Meckstroth, E.A. (1985). Understanding and encouraging the exceptionally gifted, Roeper Review, 8, 24-30.] [Lovecky, D.V. (1992a). The exceptionally gifted child. Understanding Our Gifted, 4 (4), 3-4.] [Lovecky, D.V. (1992b), The exceptionally gifted child (part II). Understanding Our Gifted, 4(5), 3.] [Lovecky, D.V. (1992c). Exploring social and emotional aspects of giftedness. Roeper Review, 15, 18-25. ] [Piechowski, M.M. (1991). Emotional development and emotional giftedness. In N. Colangelo & G.A. Davis (Eds.), Handbook of gifted education (pp. 285-306). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.]

Admission

Admission usually follows a psychometric examination of someone who was individually administered a battery of standardized intelligence tests by a local psychologist. In this way, prospective members are just asked for their cognitive ability report including standardized scores: among other tests are accepted the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale [Wechsler, D. (1997). Manual for the Wechsler Adults Intelligence Scale (3rd Ed.). San Antonio, TX: The Psychological Corporation.] , Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children [Wechsler, D. (1991). Manual for the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (3rd Ed.). San Antonio, TX: The Psychological Corporation.] , Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale [Becker, K. A. (2003). History of the Stanford-Binet intelligence scales: Content and psychometrics. (Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition Assessment Service Bulletin No. 1). Itasca, IL: Riverside Publishing.] , Slosson Intelligence Test [Slosson, R. L. (1998). Slosson Intelligence Test Revised (SIT-R) For Children and Adults. Technical Manual. Calibrated Norms Tables. New York: Slosson Educational Publications, Inc.] . [cite web
url = http://www.cerebrals.org/index.php?go=admission
title = Cerebrals Admission Table] Although the percentile rank to join the society is very high and restrictive, Cerebrals website offers public forums that are opened to everyone. [cite web
url = http://www.cerebrals.com/board/
title = Cerebrals Public Discussion Board]

In the Media

Cerebrals Society is featured on the Beautiful Mind movie website [cite web
url = http://www.abeautifulmind.com/
title = A Beautiful Mind
accessdate = 2007-09-09
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year = 2001] in the Formulas>Genius Resources section.

Events

Cerebrals Society organized international intellectual contests by the past. The most important one involved the Non-Verbal Cognitive Performance Examination - Revised (N-VCPE-R) prepared by Xavier Jouve. This questionnaire was later remaned to EPC (Epreuve de Performance Cognitive), revised, standardized, taken by about 1,000 persons and published. [Jouve, X. (2005). Epreuve de Performance Cognitive (EPC-L), Forme Longue. Paris: Les Editions du Centre de Psychologie Appliquée.] Items were selected using Item Response Theory [Hambleton, R.K., Swaminathan, H., Jane Rogers, H. (1991). Fundamentals of Item Response Theory. Newbury Park, CA.: Sage Publications, Inc.] models and Multidimensional scaling [ Tournois, J., Dickes, P. (1993). Pratique de l’échelonnement multidimensionnel: De l’observation à l’interprétation. Bruxelles: De Broeck Université.] [ Takane, Y., Young, F.W., De Leeuw, J. (1977). Nonmetric individual differencies multidimensional scaling: an alternative least squares method with optimal scaling features. Psychometrika, 42, 7-67.] analyses.During the contest, hundred of poeple tried, and the winner was a Greek Medical Doctor named Evangelos Katsioulis [cite web
url = http://www.cerebrals.org/members.php?id=40
title = Dr. Evangelos Katsioulis] , a Mega Society member, already tested on top of the Cattell Culture Fair III [Cattell, R. B., Krug, S. E., & Barton, K. (1973). Technical Supplement for the Culture Fair Intelligence Tests. Scales 2 and 3. Champaign, IL: Institute for Personality and Ability Testing.] and over the standardization ceiling of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, who reached a raw score of 49 out of 54. Second place was taken by Jan Willem Versluis with a very similar score of 48 out ot 54. [cite web
url = http://www.cerebrals.org/index.php?go=nvcper
title = N-VCPE-R Contest Results] As shown in the age-adjusted T-score norm tables provided with the test manual, these scores fall within the range of 4 to 5 standard deviations above the general population mean.

Structure

Members

The number of members has been growing steadily over the last eight years of existence. Membership is free, voluntary and for life. Statistics show that the mean IQ of members has fluctuated between 147 sd16 and 152 sd16. [Damjanovic, S. (2002) Cerebrals Society Statistics. Cerebrals Society Bulletin, 6, 2.] Membership is international with approximately half of the members coming from the European continent and the other half from countries worldwide.

Officers

Cerebrals Society has six officers elected annually by the general membership. Heading the society are two Co-Presidents, assisted by a Vice-President, Psychometrician, Publisher and Web Officer.

ee also

* Epimetheus Society
* High IQ society
* International Society for Philosophical Enquiry
* Mensa International
* Prometheus Society
* Triple Nine Society

References

External links

* [http://www.cerebrals.org/ Cerebrals Society homepage]