Tallahassee Area Mensa
Welcome to the home page of Tallahassee Area Mensa!
Tallahassee Area Mensa a local chapter of the High IQ Society, American Mensa. The Tallahassee
area serves Florida from the Apalachicola River east through Taylor County including part of
Madison County and even a bit of Dixie County. Our area is also the only area in all of Florida,
Region 10 of American Mensa, to include a portion of Georgia. For a full view of the area we
cover, visit our map.
Interested in joining Mensa? The only qualification for membership is a score at or above the
98th percentile on an approved IQ test. There are two different ways you can join. One is by
submitting evidence of scores from any of a number of approved intelligence tests that you have
already taken, or you can take the Mensa Admission Test. For more information about qualifying
to join, visit the Join Mensa page.
LOCSEC NOTE
Debi's Dithering
Hi Everybody --
I’ve recently had some people ask me about the ‘elitist’ nature of Mensa as an
organization. The fact, for example, that IQ scores (or equivalent scores on other
standardized tests) are the only way to qualify, which pretty much rules out other
sorts of giftedness.
A true definition of giftedness, one that is universally accepted, has yet to be
found. IQ scores are an easy way, but it has been demonstrated time and time again
that there is not necessarily a correlation between IQ scores and ‘success,’ on any
number of possible interpretations of ‘success’ including income, happiness, civic
engagement, etc.
I’m curious about your thoughts on this -- how would YOU define giftedness? And if
you would define it more broadly than IQ score, how would you suggest that Mensa
address qualification based on your definition?
:-)
Debi
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