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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]
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 ...
Many high IQ societies, such as Mensa and Intertel, can map their entrance requirements to early AGCT scores. [5] [6] The AGCT was of interest to researchers because of the breadth of the test taker sample (1.75 million men took the original test).
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 ]
The Miller Analogies Test (MAT) was a standardized test used both for graduate school admissions in the United States and entrance to high I.Q. societies.Created and published by Harcourt Assessment (now a division of Pearson Education), the MAT consisted of 120 questions in 60 minutes (an earlier iteration was 100 questions in 50 minutes).
Vic Mensa is ready to reveal some big news — he’s a dad! The “U Mad” rapper and actor, 31, and his girlfriend, Melanie, privately welcomed their first child, son Mansa Musa Mensa, last year.
The Triple Nine Society (TNS) is an international high-IQ society for adults whose score on a standardized test demonstrates an IQ at or above the 99.9th percentile of the human population.
Intertel was founded in 1966 by Ralph Haines, following the example of Mensa founders Roland Berrill and Lancelot Ware, who wanted to create an association adapted to the gifted needs without any specific restriction of admission (with the exception of a minimum IQ). Intertel thus became the second oldest organization of this kind, Mensa being ...