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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]
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 ...
The Wechsler tests can also be used to identify intellectual giftedness, and are commonly accepted as qualifying evidence for high-IQ societies, such as Mensa, Intertel and the Triple Nine Society. [15] [16] [17]
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 ]
IQ tests provide accurate measurements of a real human ability that is relevant in many aspects of life. Intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, is highly (about 80%) heritable and parents with low IQs are much more likely to have children with low IQs
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 ...
In Denmark, the educational system has historically used a number of different systems of grading student performances, several of which are described below. The current grading system is the 7-trins-skala (7-step-scale) which replaced the 13-skala in 2006.
Photograph from the 1988 Mensa IBD meeting that took place in Athens with Victor Serebriakoff, Mrs and Mr Nikos Anagnostatos Vice-president of Mensa Greece on the left edge of the photograph, Amy Shaughnessy Chairman of American Mensa, Theodoros Natsinas Chairman of Mensa Greece and Kiki Florou Secretary General of Mensa Greece, on the right ...