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Hey, can you freepmail me on any info you have on the neuro thing? You have Freepmail.

My SAT's got me into Mensa, which I joined as a joke--just to show my friends the card, some 20 years ago. The night before, my buddies and I smoked dope and drank until 3 am.

(stopped that long ago, after I saw what it did to people long term)

For those that don't know, IQ is a Bell curve, with the average defined as 100. 132 (depending on the test) is roughly 3 standard deviations, which means (as I recall) 97.3%(?) of people fall below it. It is the cutoff for Mensa. Really high IQ's are very difficult to measure. 200 is over 9 standard deviations. Without my stats book & tables, I am not sure, but 6 standard deviations (six sigma) is, I believe, 3 in a million. 9 has to be close to 1 in a billion.

(Also, FYI, the SAT used to be acceptable as an IQ indicator, but a few years ago, when the average fell well below 1000, they made the test easier, so that everyone scored an average of 100 points higher. Today's 1200 SAT score would have been 1100 a few years ago)

BTW, yes my verbal was lower than my math--lol! Partially dyslexic, slightly autistic, beer swizzling, gun-owning, dog loving, union hating, free-market capitalist.

With a Mensa cut off of only 132 I could have gotten in but what's the point? I had my BS by 19 but now have no desire to use my degrees. I hadn't had time to experience life enough to make such major decisions and 12 yo Sho certainly hasn't. Sure, he may ace written tests but how does a kid explain to a husband his wife is dying from breast cancer? What parent would allow a teen to remove a brain tumor on their child? Give the kid a skateboard and let him take a few basics but wait on med school until he's older.