Background
Hoeflin was born on February 23, 1944, to William Eugene Hoeflin (July 1, 1902 — 1993) and Mary Elizabeth Dell Hoeflin (born May 15, 1913 in Ocklocknee, Georgia), who married in 1938.
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Hoeflin was born on February 23, 1944, to William Eugene Hoeflin (July 1, 1902 — 1993) and Mary Elizabeth Dell Hoeflin (born May 15, 1913 in Ocklocknee, Georgia), who married in 1938.
Student, California Institute Technology, 1962-1963; student, University California, Berkeley, 1966-1967; student, University North Carolina, 1970-1971; Bachelor, University of Minnesota, 1968; Bachelor, Shimer College, 1974; Master of Library Science, Indiana U., 1970; Master of Arts, New School Social Research, 1979; Doctor of Philosophy, New School Social Research, 1987.
Hoeflin claims an intelligence quotient of 164, admitting his scores have ranged from 125 to 175, depending upon the cognitive abilities tapped into. Hoeflin grew up in Street Louis, Missouri. As a young child he memorized pi to 200 places.
He is currently writing a three-volume treatise entitled "The Encyclopedia of Categories: A Theory of Categories and Unifying Paradigm for Philosophy".
Two volumes have already been published. Foreign over sixty years psychologists such as Leta Stetter Hollingworth, author of the book Children Above 180 intelligence quotient, have suggested that people with extremely high IQs are radically different from the general population.
Identifying such people would require intelligence quotient tests with reliability not currently available for extreme ranges of intelligence quotient. Hoeflin attempted, along with Kevin Langdon, to develop an intelligence quotient test that could measure adult IQs greater than three standard deviations from the population median, or intelligence quotient 145 (sd 15). Hoeflin"s Mega Test was an untimed and unsupervised intelligence quotient test consisting of 48 questions, half verbal and half mathematical.
lieutenant was published in Omni magazine in April 1985 and the results were used to norm the test.
Hoeflin renormed the test six times, using equipercentile equating with SAT and other scores, and some extrapolation at the highest level The highest scorers on the Mega Test had their names printed in the Guinness Book of World Records and were also profiled (along with Hoeflin) by Esquire under the title The Smartest Manitoba in America. The Guinness book of World Records has since retired the category of "highest intelligence quotient" after concluding that intelligence quotient tests are not consistent enough to designate a single world record holder.
One such scorer, Marilyn vos Savant, was also profiled in New York magazine.
This article also discusses Hoeflin and the Mega Society (the author of the Esquire article, Mike Sager, later used it as part of a book) The Mega Test has been criticized by professional reviewers of psychological tests. In 1990, Hoeflin created the Titan Test, also published in Omni.
Believing that people at the highest intelligence quotient levels would be able easily to communicate with each other and have much in common, Hoeflin founded several societies for those with the highest scores. All are active today.
These societies are (along with year founded, percentile, and minimum intelligence quotient (sd 16)):.
Member American Philosophical Association (Fifth Annual Rockefeller prize 1988), Mensa, Mega Society (founder 1982), Prometheus Society (founder 1982).
Married Sophia Kandelaki, July 17, 2009.