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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 organization 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 [86] Alexander Shulgin – medicinal chemist, biochemist, and rediscoverer of MDMA (ecstasy) [87] Clive Sinclair – inventor of the Sinclair Executive pocket calculator, founder of Sinclair Research, member of British Mensa, and chairman from 1980 to 1997 [88]
Those are listed below by selectivity percentile (assuming the now-standard definition of IQ as a standard score with a median of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 IQ points). Since the 1960s, Mensa has experienced increasing competition in attracting high-IQ individuals, as various new groups have emerged with even stricter and more exclusive ...
Eleven-year-old Yusuf Shah is being hailed as a genius after he made the highest possible score, 162, on a Mensa intelligence test. 11-year-old British boy beats Einstein and Hawking on Mensa IQ ...
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The high IQ societies Intertel and the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE) accept the RAPM as a qualification for admission, [14] [15] and so does the International High IQ Society. [16] The Triple Nine Society used to accept the Advanced Progressive Matrices as one of their admission tests. They still accept a raw score of ...
The test is utilised by several Mensa chapters in Europe, including Mensa Norway and Mensa Sweden, as well as by Mensa South Africa for their admissions processes. To qualify for Mensa, it is not necessary to complete both forms of the test. Each form independently provides an IQ percentile based on the raw score achieved by the test taker.
Kashe Quest (born in June 22, 2018) is an American child genius who is the youngest member of American Mensa, having joined at 2 years old. [1]Quest was born in Los Angeles County, California, to an Indian American mother, Sukhjit Athwal, who is a child development expert from Northern California, [2] [3] and an African American father, Devon, a law clerk.