Mensa International

Mensa is an organization for people with high IQs. Its solejedyny, wyłączny requirementwymaganie for entry is that potential members must score within the top 2% in any approvedzatwierdzony, zaaprobowany standardizedstandardowy, ujednolicony intelligence or knowledge masterybiegłość, mistrzostwo test.

Background information
Roland Berrill, an Australian barristeradwokat, obrońca, and Dr. Lancelot Ware, an English scientist and lawyer, founded Mensa in England in 1946. They had the idea of forming a society for brightbystry, inteligentny people, the only qualificationograniczenie, warunek for membership of which was a high IQ. The original aims were, as they are today, to create a non-political society free from all racial or religious distinctionsdistinction: różnica. The society welcomes all people, regardless of background, whose IQs meet the criteriaspełniać kryteria, with the objectivecel, zadanie of members enjoying each other's company and participating in a wide range of social and cultural activities. Mensa accepts individuals who score in the 98th percentileprocent on standardizedstandardowy, ujednolicony IQ tests such as the Stanford-Binet. Certain tests that were once accepted for admissionwstęp, przyjęcie into Mensa, such as the SAT and the GRE, are no longer accepted, either because they no longer are considered intelligence tests or because they no longer measure scores up to the 98th percentileprocent. Mensa administersto administer: podawać, stosować its own tests for those who do not already have qualifyingto qualify: kwalifikować, zaliczyć, uzyskać scores from other tests.

Mensa International has over 100,000 members, with over 50,000 in the United States alonetylko, jedynie. In addition to encouraging social interaction among its members, the organization is also involved with programs for giftedutalentowany children, literacyumiejętność pisania i czytania, and scholarshipsscholarship: stypendium. The name comes from mensa, the Latin word for "table," and indicatesto indicate: pokazywać, wskazywać, sygnalizować that it is a round-table society of equalsequal: równy. The name was once planned to be Mens, Latin for "mind," but this was potentially confusing. Mensa's name may also seem ironic to Colombians and Mexicans, in whose dialect menso (feminine: mensa) means "stupid". Mensa is however also very close to the Spanish word for "table", mesa, and most Spanish speakers do not see anything wrong with the name.

Mensa's goalsgoal: cel
Mensa has three statedpodany do wiadomośći, ogłoszony, określony purposes: to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity; to encourage research in the nature, characteristics, and uses of intelligence; and to promote stimulatingto stimulate: pobudzać intellectual and social opportunities for its members.

Mensa has published a number of books, including Poetry Mensa (in 1966), an anthology of poems by Mensans all over the world, and not all of them in English. Mensa also edits and publishes its own Mensa Research Journal, in which both Mensans and Non-Mensans are published on various topics surrounding the concept and measure of intelligence.

Organizational Structure
Mensa International consists of over 40 National Groups. Individuals who live in countries with a National Group join that National Group, while others join Mensa International directly. The two largest National Groups are American Mensa, with about 50,000 members, and British Mensa, with about 25,000 members. The larger National Groups are further subdividedto subdivide: dzielić na coraz mniejsze części into local groups. For example, American Mensa has over 135 local groups, with the largest having over 2,000 members and the smallest fewer than 100. Additionally, members may form Special Interest Groups (SIGs) at both the national and local levels; these SIGs represents a wide variety of interests, both commonplacepospolity, powszechny and obscuremało znany.

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