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Mensa International
Formation
1 October 1946; 77 years ago (1946-10-01)[1]
Legal status
Limited non-profit organisation
Purpose
High-IQ society
Headquarters
Slate Barn, Church Lane, Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
Location
Worldwide
Membership
~150,000[2]
International Chairperson
Björn Liljeqvist
Website
www.mensa.org
Mensa 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] Mensa formally comprises national groups and the umbrella organisation Mensa International, with a registered office in Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, England,[7] which is separate from the British Mensa office in Wolverhampton.[8]
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^Sharma, Mukul (30 January 2007). "IQ tests are about innate intelligence". The Times of India. India. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2007.
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