post-1994 SAT, in the case of Mensa and Intertel) are not accepted for admission. Tests deemed to insufficiently correlate with intelligence (e.g. High-IQ societies typically accept a variety of IQ tests for membership eligibility these include WAIS, Stanford-Binet, and Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices, amongst many others deemed to sufficiently measure or correlate with intelligence. The largest and oldest such society is Mensa International, which was founded by Roland Berrill and Lancelot Ware in 1946.
These may also be referred to as genius societies. Organization for people with a high IQ scoreĪ high-IQ society is an organization that limits its membership to people who have attained a specified score on an IQ test, usually in the top two percent of the population (98th percentile) or above.
