Paul Cooijmans
Paul Cooijmans Quick Facts
Main Areas: High-range I.Q. testing, writing, composing, guitar playingBest Sellers: Test For Genius, The Nemesis Test
Career Focus: The study of high intelligence and its measurability
Affiliation: I.Q. Tests for the High Range, The Glia Society, The Giga Society
Paul Cooijmans (1965) has been designing and administering difficult intelligence tests in the context of high-I.Q. societies since 1995, and has founded and led several of such societies. In addition, he has written many articles and has also been a composer and musician as well as an award-winning writer of short stories.
An autodidact in statistics and psychology, his tests have been taken by over 2000 candidates around the world. His main goals are to find out to what extent it is possible to measure intelligence beyond the ceilings of most regular tests, and to study high intelligence in general. Other aspects of psychology having his interest are creativity, genius, and Asperger's disorder. As a hobby he rides a recumbent.
An aspect of high-I.Q. societies that has Cooijmans' particular attention is their functioning as communication fora and social networks. A problem observed by him is the low proportion of females in communities with high IQ pass levels. The various societies he founded, and their admission procedures and internal rules, reflect a searching for optimal formats to enable individuals to get in contact with suitable others.
- The Giga Society - The world's most exclusive high-I.Q. society.
- The Glia Society - Nerve-centred in Europe
- Childhood scores, or any type of age-based IQ scores, are no usable indicators of adult intelligence.
- Less than one percent of the adult population is capable of strict reasoning.
- Purely spatial tests are not very good measures of general intelligence.
- Creativity is a synergy of conscientiousness, intelligence and associative horizon, and as such a concept one level above intelligence.
- Creativity is the outward projection of awareness.
Paul Cooijmans
De Wolwever 39
5737 AD Lieshout
The Netherlands
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