What is Mensa? Learn about the Mensa . organization

Mensa is a community of people with the highest IQs in the world. So what exactly is Mensa, what is the purpose of this organization and who can be a member of this organization. Please read the article below to get the answer.

What is Mensa?

Mensa is a non-profit organization for people with the highest IQs in the world with its main sponsor, Mensa International, and its registered office in Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, England. Members of this organization are those whose results obtained from an IQ test or through some other valid intelligence test result are 98% or higher.

The official Mensa community consists of many different national groups.

What does Mensa mean? The purpose of Mensa đích

In Latin, the word mensa means table. This organization took the name Mensa to show that this is a round table society where everyone is equal, regardless of race, color, national origin, age, politics, education. is the original and current purpose of this organization.

The three main purposes of Mensa are:

1. Identify and foster the smartest people for the benefit of humanity.
2. Encourage research into the nature, characteristics, and uses of human intelligence.
3. Provide a social and intellectually stimulating environment for members of the organization.

History and purpose of Mensa

Mensa was founded by Roland Berrill, an Australian lawyer, and Dr. Lancelot Ware, a British scientist and lawyer, in 1946 in Oxford, England. Their purpose is to form a community for people with outstanding intelligence with high IQs, among 2% of the world's population.

Organization structure

Mensa International currently has approximately 134,000 members from 51 Mensa national groups and more than 100 countries. In which, the US is the largest member of the Mensa nation with more than 57,000 members, followed by the UK (more than 21,000 members) and Germany (more than 13,000 members).

Mensa members range in age from 2 to over 100, but most are in the 20-60 range.

Mensa members with similar interests or interests can also form their own groups called SIGs (Special Interest Groups (SIGs).

Requirements to become a member

Applicants must pass at least 98% of IQ tests or other recognized intelligence tests to become a Mensa member.

The minimum acceptable score for the IQ test is 13, Stanford-Binet is 132, while for Cattell is 148.

The youngest person to ever join British Mensa was Elise Tan-Roberts, who was two years and four months old when she joined Mensa in 2009.

Recently, Kashe Quest, a 2-year-old girl from California (USA) with an IQ of 146, has just become the youngest person of the Mensa organization. This is also the youngest member of the community of people with the highest IQ in this world.

Jessica Tanner

Update 29 May 2021