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Mensa International

Index Mensa International

Mensa is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. [1]

38 relations: Baby boomers, Barrister, Canada Day, Cattell Culture Fair III, Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, Dearborn, Michigan, East Valley Tribune, England, Generation X, Halloween, High IQ society, Independence Day (United States), Intellectual giftedness, Intelligence, Intelligence quotient, IQ Award, IQ classification, Lancelot Ware, Latin, Lincoln College, Oxford, Lincolnshire, List of Mensa Select recipients, List of Mensans, Literacy, London, Margot Seitelman, Mean, Mitcham, London, Orlando, Florida, Oxford, Percentile, Roland Berrill, Special Interest Group, Standard deviation, Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales, Table (furniture), Tampa Bay Times, United Kingdom.

Baby boomers

Baby Boomers (also known as Boomers) are the demographic cohort following the Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. There are varying timelines defining the start and the end of this cohort; demographers and researchers typically use birth years starting from the early- to mid-1940s and ending anywhere from 1960 to 1964.

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Barrister

A barrister (also known as barrister-at-law or bar-at-law) is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions.

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Canada Day

Canada Day (Fête du Canada) is the national day of Canada.

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Cattell Culture Fair III

The Culture Fair Intelligence Test (CFIT) was constructed by Raymond B. Cattell, PhD, DSc in an attempt to produce a measure of cognitive abilities that accurately estimated intelligence devoid of sociocultural and environmental influences.

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Caythorpe, Lincolnshire

Caythorpe is a large village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Dearborn, Michigan

Dearborn is a city in the State of Michigan.

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East Valley Tribune

The East Valley Tribune is a weekly newspaper concentrated on cities within the East Valley region of metropolitan Phoenix, including Mesa, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert and Queen Creek.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Generation X

Generation X, or Gen X, is the demographic cohort following the baby boomers and preceding the Millennials.

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Halloween

Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of All Hallows' Evening), also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.

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High IQ society

A high IQ society is an organization that limits its membership to people who have attained a specified score on an IQ test.

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Independence Day (United States)

Independence Day, also referred to as the Fourth of July or July Fourth, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

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Intellectual giftedness

Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average.

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Intelligence

Intelligence has been defined in many different ways to include the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, and problem solving.

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Intelligence quotient

An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from several standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence.

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IQ Award

The IQ Award is a prize donated by the high-IQ association Mensa to honor people and organisations who have done remarkable contributions to public welfare by an intelligent idea, scientific research about human intelligence or the positive image of intelligence in the public.

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IQ classification

IQ classification is the practice by IQ test publishers of labeling IQ score ranges with category names such as "superior" or "average".

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Lancelot Ware

Lancelot Lionel Ware OBE (5 June 191515 August 2000) was an English barrister and biochemist.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lincoln College, Oxford

Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, situated on Turl Street in central Oxford.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in east central England.

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List of Mensa Select recipients

Mensa Select is an annual award given by American Mensa since 1990 to five board games that are "original, challenging and well designed." The awards are presented at the annual Mensa Mind Games competition.

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List of Mensans

This list of Mensans contains notable members of Mensa International, the high IQ society, both current and past.

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Literacy

Literacy is traditionally meant as the ability to read and write.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Margot Seitelman

Margot Seitelman (23 February 1928 – 5 November 1989) was the long-serving first executive director of American Mensa, from 1961 (shortly after American Mensa's formation) until her death in 1989.

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Mean

In mathematics, mean has several different definitions depending on the context.

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Mitcham, London

Mitcham is a district in south west London, located within the London Borough of Merton.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Orange County.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Percentile

A percentile (or a centile) is a measure used in statistics indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall.

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Roland Berrill

Roland Fabien Berrill (1897–1962) was an Australian who was the co-founder (with the English barrister Lancelot Ware) of Mensa, the international society for intellectually gifted people.

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Special Interest Group

A Special Interest Group (SIG) is a community within a larger organization with a shared interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge, learning or technology where members cooperate to affect or to produce solutions within their particular field, and may communicate, meet, and organize conferences.

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Standard deviation

In statistics, the standard deviation (SD, also represented by the Greek letter sigma σ or the Latin letter s) is a measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values.

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Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales

The Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales (or more commonly the Stanford–Binet) is an individually administered intelligence test that was revised from the original Binet–Simon Scale by Lewis M. Terman, a psychologist at Stanford University.

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Table (furniture)

A table is an item of furniture with a flat top and one or more legs, used as a surface for working at, eating from or on which to place things.

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Tampa Bay Times

The Tampa Bay Times, previously named the St.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_International

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