Editing Mensa International (section)

==History==
Australian [[Roland Berrill]] and [[Lancelot Ware]], a British scientist and lawyer, founded Mensa at [[Lincoln College, Oxford|Lincoln College]], in [[Oxford]], England in 1946, with the intention of forming a society for the most intelligent, with the only qualification being a high IQ.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mensa International |title=A Brief History of Mensa's International Structure |url=https://www.mensa.org/mensa/history  |access-date=2023-02-22 |website=www.mensa.org}}</ref>

The society was ostensibly to be non-political in its aims and free from all other social distinctions, such as race and religion.<ref name=AboutMensa/> However, Berrill and Ware were both disappointed with the resulting society. Berrill had intended Mensa as "an aristocracy of the intellect" and was unhappy that the majority of members came from working or lower-class homes,<ref name="VictorSerebriakoff">{{cite book | title=Mensa - The Society for the Highly Intelligent | author=Victor Serebriakoff | publisher=Stein and Day | year=1986 | isbn=978-0-8128-3091-0 }}</ref> while Ware said: "I do get disappointed that so many members spend so much time solving puzzles."<ref name="tammet">{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3fkLVpsb1wC&pg=PA40| first1=Daniel| last1=Tammet| title=Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind| page=40| publisher=Simon and Schuster| date=2009| isbn=978-1416570134| access-date=4 September 2017| archive-date=29 December 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229031820/https://books.google.com/books?id=E3fkLVpsb1wC&pg=PA40| url-status=live}}</ref>

American Mensa was the second major branch of Mensa thanks to the efforts of [[Margot Seitelman]].<ref>{{cite book | title=Mensa - The Society for the Highly Intelligent | page=73 | author=Victor Serebriakoff | publisher=Stein and Day | year=1986 | isbn=978-0-8128-3091-0 }}</ref>