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Serbia has Over 5,000 Mensa Candidates
Belgrade | 28 July 2009 |
Belgrade
“Serbia’s number of highly intelligent people can be compared to France or Great Britain,” he said.
The largest and oldest high IQ society, founded in 1946 in Oxford, UK, Mensa International has more than 110,000 members in 50 nations.
Munizaba said that Mensa’s only requirement for membership is that one score at or above the 98th percentile on certain standardised IQ tests, such as the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales.
According to Munizaba, Mensa Serbia currently has around 950 members, who pay an annual membership fee of €19.
Members are mostly university-educated and students, but many also lack a formal education, he said, underlining that literacy and educational levels are not related to intelligence.
There are more men than women in Mensa as men are more willing to take the associated tests, he related.
