Formation | 1 October 1946[1] |
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Legal status | Limited non-profit organisation |
Purpose | High-IQ society |
Headquarters | Slate Barn, Church Lane, Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom |
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Membership | ~150,000[2] |
International Chairperson | Therese Moody-Bloom |
Website | www |
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] 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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