High IQ societies such as MENSA don't pay much attention to date. For instance MENSA's cutoff is 1250 on math+verbal prior to May, 1994, and 1875 on math+verbal+analytical after that date. However I know that there have been shifts in how the test is scaled. For instance Ultranet's admission criteria is 1610 on math+verbal in the GRE. But when I took it, both sections were out of 800 so a combined score of 1610 was impossible. I believe that the top possible score changed in 1981, but I'm not sure of that.

If you're really fascinated with what high IQ societies you might be able to join, see [link|http://www.polymath-systems.com/intel/hiqsocs/hiqsocs2.html|http://www.polymath-...ocs/hiqsocs2.html] and then [link|http://www.polymath-systems.com/intel/hiqsocs/hiqsocs1.html|http://www.polymath-...ocs/hiqsocs1.html] for more on said societies. My GREs qualify me for all of the 1/1000 level societies, and nothing higher.

I've never been a member of any high IQ society. The toy model that I talked about at [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=185893|http://z.iwethey.org...?contentid=185893] is pretty much how I feel about IQ tests. I know that I'm intelligent. I don't believe that my abilities are anything like what an IQ score would say. And I don't particularly value people's abilities (mine included) to do well on stupid puzzles.

Cheers,
Ben