'the man from MENSA' - 1 of 600: Mensa research

ISBN-13: 9781535307260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 482 str.

Bernard J Mulholland

Opis

There is little known about this elite high-IQ society, MENSA, which boasts a membership tested to have an IQ among the highest two per cent of the population. This book is written by an insider who as a member of MENSA contributed extensively to this international high-IQ society over a span of almost thirty years. MENSA was originally conceived of as a third pillar intended to complement the Royal Society and the British Academy. When it was founded in Oxford during 1946 its original goal was to gather six hundred of the most intelligent people in Britain as scientifically measured through an IQ test who the government and its agencies could contact for advice on matters of government. It had two purposes: first, to conduct research in psychology and social science and, secondly, to provide contact between intelligent people everywhere in the world. The intention was for MENSA to conduct three strands of research: i.To test intelligence tests, and identify correlations with intelligence ii.Mensans as the subjects of research iii.The Mensan as an instrument of research, i.e. where they choose areas of research and write reports on them This book reveals some of the research conducted on or by Mensans over the intervening seventy years. Dr. Bernard Mulholland is a historian with a Ph.D. from Queen's University in Belfast. His thesis was published as a monograph: The Early Byzantine Christian Church (Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies, 9, Oxford, 2014).