Mensa Switzerland The High IQ Society

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There is a strange disconnect between the scientific consensus and the public mind on intelligence testing. Just mention IQ testing in polite company, and you'll sternly be informed that IQ tests don't measure anything "real," and only reflect how good you are at doing IQ tests; that they ignore important traits like "emotional intelligence" and "multiple intelligences"; and that those who are interested in IQ testing must be elitists, or maybe something more sinister.

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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by American psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein (who died before the book was released) and American political scientist Charles Murray. Herrnstein and Murray's central argument is that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and is a better predictor of many personal dynamics, including financial income, job performance, birth out of wedlock, and involvement in crime than are an individual's parental socioeconomic status, or education level. They also argue that those with high intelligence, the "cognitive elite", are becoming separated from those of average and below-average intelligence.

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Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über das Phänomen Hochbegabung. Es klärt auf über den Tatbestand und gibt einen Einblick in das Seelenleben, die Erfolge und Misserfolge hochbegabter Erwachsener. Der Leser lernt die speziellen Schwierigkeiten Hochbegabter – teilweise in Form von Berichten Betroffener – kennen und bekommt schließlich Unterstützung, wenn es darum geht sich einen kompetenten Coach zu suchen. Außerdem enthält dieses Buch eine Menge Anregungen (als hoch-begabter Erwachsener) sich selbst zu helfen, seine Ressourcen möglichst umfassend zu nutzen und so auf eine zufriedenstellende Lebensführung zuzusteuern.

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Beschreibung

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Victor Serebriakoff was International Chairman of Mensa for more than 20 years. In his book, he tells the history of Mensa from 1946 to 1985.