What is top 2% IQ?

A score of 130 or higher signals a high IQ. Membership in Mensa, the High IQ society, includes people who score in the top 2 percent, which is usually 132 or higher.

Is Mensa free?

Mensa dues are $79/year, and we offer discounts for additional family members and multi-year memberships. You can learn more about our dues structure here.

Can you improve your IQ?

Although science is on the fence about whether you can raise your IQ or not, research does seem to suggest that it’s possible to raise your intelligence through certain brain-training activities. Training your memory, executive control, and visuospatial reasoning can help to boost your intelligence levels.

How can I know my IQ level?

A person’s IQ can be calculated by having the person take an intelligence test. The average IQ is 100 by definition. If you achieve a score higher than 100, you did better than the average person, and a lower score means you (somewhat) performed less.

What is the Poetic Genius Society?

The Poetic Genius Society is composed of intellectually gifted individuals with a passion for poetry. They are the creative artists of our time, whose literary output interprets the heritage of the past and the urgent now.

What is the Poetry Society?

The Poetry Society is a membership organisation, open to all, whose stated aim is “to promote the study, use and enjoyment of poetry”. The society was founded in London in February 1909 as the Poetry Recital Society, becoming the Poetry Society in 1912. Its first president was Lady Margaret Sackville.

What is a genius?

T.V.F. Brogan argues that “genius” is a middle term in the evolution of the idea of inspiration and poetic ability from a belief in an external source ( afflatus, or divine infection, and poetic phrenzy, or divine madness) and an internal source ( imagination and the subconscious ).

What is Romanticism’s definition of genius?

At the same time, Romanticism’s definition of genius as a person driven by a force beyond his or her control and as an ability that surpasses the natural and exceeds the human mind makes it virtually identical with the Classical notion of divine madness or frenzy.