At the end of the weekend they rate each game, and five winners are chosen to receive the Mensa Select seal. At the event Mensans spend an entire weekend playing an assortment of games for instance, 65 were available in 2012. Sometimes World Gatherings are held, such as in 2006 to celebrate 60 years of Mensa - an estimated 2,500 members from over 30 countries attended.Īmerican Mensa also holds a Mind Games event every year. For instance, the American and Canadian AGs are usually held during the American Independence Day (July 4th) or Canada Day (July 1st) holiday weekends respectively. Some Mensans make it a point to go to as many RG's as possible - there's usually one going on every weekend, somewhere, in the United States at least.Ī country will have an Annual Gathering (AG) once a year. An RG usually includes low room rates for the group, a hospitality suite with food and socialization, a games room and a number of seminars on a range of subjects. Many local groups' largest events of the year are Regional Gatherings (RG), which usually attract members from nearby areas and often last a weekend at a hotel. Each local group is loosely led by a Local Secretary ("LocSec") who is voted on. Most groups are centered around cities, making it harder for Mensans who are out in the country to attend regularly. Some groups have more events than others. The events are posted in a monthly newsletter. The events differ according to whatever a local group does, often having meetings at restaurants, or games nights, or parties at people's homes. note To do so would seem to imply the larger organization's official endorsement of that special interest/opinion A SIG must be approved by the national organization to become official, and cannot use the words "Mensa" or "Mensan" in its name. Inside of Mensa are multiple Member-operated Special Interest Groups (SIGs), of varying activity levels on subjects which range from religion to politics to movies to ESP to medical conditions to food. Individual Mensans can and do have opinions about religion, politics, etc - but the organization as a whole does not. Mensa does not have an established platform or set of values. Some find it very helpful in understanding their own intelligence to have the chance to be around others who they already know are intelligent. While of course there are some who join to prove something to themselves, the majority join to meet people and make friends. note Because it's not like it's very polite to go asking random people on the street their IQ. (And continuing on down the definitions, they are definitely not a 10-point typesetting commonly found on typewriters.) It's important to remember that Mensa's requirements are not intended to exclude, but to find and bring together highly intelligent individuals. Yes, the most intelligent are absolutely "elite" in having the highest IQs, but many in that group would not characterize themselves as "the best" or "superior to others" in most other respects. note It doesn't help that "elite" is a rather broadly defined word.
Some people refer to Mensa as an "elite" organization in a pejorative sense.
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Whether or not this is true, it was reported on QI, which would be the first TV series to join Mensa if TV series could join. note Legend has it that the name was originally Mens, meaning "mind" in Latin the story goes that this was scrapped after it was realised that this made the society's publication look like "Men's", especially when in all-caps, which in mid-20th century Britain would be interpreted to mean "Sodomites'". “ Mensa” means “table” in Latin, and the logo is the world on a table, demonstrating the coming together of equals – like the Knights of the Round Table note Only less like regal knights and more like a bunch of people eating snacks and trading really bad puns while playing Trivial Pursuit. Mensa is formally composed of national groups and the umbrella organization Mensa International, which is based in England.
It is a non-profit organization started in 1946, and open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. Mensa is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. From Mensa International's website "About Mensa"
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