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Mensa International is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. [3] [4] [5] It is a non-profit organisation open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. [6]
Victor Serebriakoff – author and former international president of Mensa [88] Alexander Shulgin – medicinal chemist , biochemist, and rediscoverer of MDMA (ecstasy) [ 89 ] Clive Sinclair – inventor of the Sinclair Executive pocket calculator, founder of Sinclair Research , member of British Mensa, and chairman from 1980 to 1997 [ 90 ]
Tests deemed to insufficiently correlate with intelligence (e.g. post-1994 SAT, in the case of Mensa and Intertel) are not accepted for admission. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] As IQ significantly above 146 SD15 (approximately three-sigma) cannot be reliably measured with accuracy due to sub-test limitations and insufficient norming, IQ societies with ...
Isla McNabb became Mensa's youngest female member last year at just 2 years old. Her parents recently explained why they got her tested for the group.
She's already a member of Mensa -- the genius society –- and currently stands as the youngest person in the Arizona Mensa chapter. Tests show her I.Q. is above 160, whereas the average person's ...
Mensa was founded by Berrill and Lancelot Ware at Lincoln College, Oxford, England on 1 October 1946.They originally called it the "High IQ Club". Lance Ware had the initial idea for the society, but Berrill founded Mensa in the usual sense: he supplied the start-up cash, wrote some initial idiosyncratic pamphlets and became Mensa's first Secretary.
The category contains notable people who are, or who have been, members of Mensa International, the high IQ society. Subcategories. This category has only the ...
Mensa (name), a name and list of people with the given name or surname; Mensa (constellation), a constellation in the southern sky; Mensa (ecclesiastical), a portion of church property that is appropriated to defray the expenses of either the prelate or the community that serves the church; Mensa (geology), an extraterrestrial area of raised land