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9average life expectancy minus sixteen, divided by the average interval between enrolments.When any of those variables change, the number of members moves to its new plateau. Attentivereaders will have understood from the above that life expectancy is not going to increasedrastically in the century ahead of you. But then, attentive readers will long have seen throughthe myth of a steadily increasing life expectancy anyway.We also like to stress how true it is that there exist candidates who deserve membership morethan some of the members known to you. This is inherent to the tentative nature of constructingand norming tests for the very highest range of ability, and to the implausibly high requirementfor membership. High-scoring candidates are greatly helpful in establishing norms and validityin this range, but there will always be a point beyond which a test’s validity breaks down, orbeyond which the norms are not based on sufficient data (these are two different things), and it isthere where the Giga Society’s pass level is inevitably located. So this situation remains, eventhough high-range test validity and quality of norms increase considerably from your era to ours.This “noise” in our admission policy is accepted as an unavoidable consequence of theAdministrator’s spectacularly ambitious test project.What is never accepted, however, is fraud; any member found to have cheated one’s way into theGiga Society, for instance by submitting test answers provided by a third party rather than byactually solving the problems oneself, is kindly and humanely corrected in a way that precludesrepetition with absolute certainty and may just cause the odd utterance of ever so slightdiscomfort to emanate from the scallywag’s oral cavity. This absurdly mild sanction has beenimplemented several times over the century and a half or so of the Society’s history that we canoversee, and we mention this emphatically here by way of kind advice to any possible swindlersamong the esteemed readers of this publication. Should you find yourself in the awkwardposition of already being a fraudulent member, your only way to avoid being confronted with thegentle executioners of our so friendly corrective measures is to proactively resign yourmembership voluntarily before your fraud is officially discovered. Your signed letter ofresignation must contain a full confession of your fraud, including the names and addresses ofyour possible confederates, whose cases will be addressed forthwith. Not to worry, no innocentwill be harmed in the process. No innocent at all.Oh, and before we forget, it is important that you understand that anything expressed in theinterviews before you, no matter how insightful, is for the exclusive responsibility of theinterviewed and does not represent views, positions, or attitudes of the Giga Society as a whole.In fact, the Society holds no positions, and its members are independent individuals with mindsof their own. This individualism, and absence of any commonality other than a high IntelligenceQuantifier test score, is germane to groups selected solely by I.Q. Such groups are merecollections of individuals, and their members possess no sense of collectivism, or of belonging toa group altogether. They may indeed act against the interest of the group without hesitation whenit suits them; such is the nature of the highly intelligent, who will rather contradict and debatetheir peers than blindly unite with them. And perhaps, that is the best species of collaborationafter all. Or perhaps it is not; the question of individualism versus collectivism is no easy one.While the ever-doubting intellectual remains isolated in one’s ivory tower, the collectivistethnocentric xenophobic tribe stealthily takes control of the world, only occupied with the goodof the tribe, never worrying about right or wrong. Our task is to find a way of both being rightand having the last laugh. The circumstance that we write this insert in the first person pluralmay give a hint as to our success in that endeavour. But we digress.

10The present publication honours some of those who succeeded in qualifying for the Giga Societyduring its first twenty-four years, and gives them a stage on which to share with you a taste oftheir wisdom. We are hopeful that you will find their thoughts instructive, inspiring, or at leastentertaining. Later publications will feature additional members, including those who are still toqualify in your future. As a matter of fact, these to-be members could be any of you, dearreaders! Does not that excite you? Due to our unique vantage point, we could even tell youexactly whom of the readers it concerns; we will not, but we could. And to nourish yourimagination even more, we would like to suggest the possibility, incredible as it may seem, thatone of you will be among the authors of the present insert in the Administrator’s Foreword. Haveyou recognized your style of writing yet? Well have you?Now, the time has come to hand you back to the Administrator; as you may remember, weinterrupted the Giga Society founder mid-sentence right after the word “graves”; so here yougo:——for the temporary storage of corpses of deceased patients. As the reader will understand, theseexceptional conditions leave me little time to compose a Foreword, which will thus end upshorter than I would like, in order to allow me to focus on vital activities like washing my handsand coughing in my elbow, not to mention disinfecting my surfaces and the soles of my shoes.May you find something of interest or inspiration in the interviews that follow.Paul CooijmansMay 13, 2020

11Introduction by Scott Douglas JacobsenThe Giga Society Conversations results from several years of intermittent work resulting in abook project approved for compilation by the founder and administrator of the Giga Society,Paul Cooijmans, who takes the work of the high-range testing world in two respects: realism andlevity. On the former, Cooijmans presents careful observation and thought, and calculations, on awide variety of different subject matter and tests relevant to the high-range testing world,including the strong positives and strong negatives emergent in much of the high-range testingcommunity. On the latter, this becomes possible in the light of the former because the twists,turns, and inversions on reality make the humour a distinguishing characteristic of Cooijmans inmuch of the high-range world – let alone longevity. As another one of the Dutch diaspora, Iappreciate the realism and the humour of us, “We, the Dutch.”In fact, years ago in an interview, Cooijmans, on sense of humour, noted:Humour is an extremely powerful and robust test of intelligence and associative horizon,of which it is a combination. One can cheat when taking an I.Q. test, but one can notfeign a sense of humour. When I once announced that candidates not satisfied with theirscore could buy additional I.Q. points from me, quite a few indignant reactions followed,most notably from at least two (2) admissions officers of I.Q. societies, who therewithinvoluntarily exposed their low level of comprehension. When chumps like that are incharge of a society’s admission policy, that explains the ineffectiveness thereof, explainsthe acceptance of many tests lacking any validity in the relevant I.Q. range, and explainsthe large numbers of clearly unqualified members in such societies.This summarizes, punctuates as a coda, much of the sensibility of Cooijmans. In that, someonewith the requisite knowledge and sense of the subtler aspects of the high-range world withvalidity and invalidity of efforts of the testing at the highest ranges of general intelligence, theneed to deal with problem personalities with humour, and comprehension of the issuesunderneath the failures and limitations of several societies within the high-range world.If in the search phase of a safe first-pass test of the high-IQ world, then the five main vettedsocieties in the Wikipedia listings include, in order of cognitive rarity, Mensa International,Intertel, Triple Nine Society, Prometheus Society, and the Mega Society. In a wider searchrange, the World Intelligence Network provides an advertisement map of a “complete referencelist of all active (84) High IQ societies.” In short, even if on two metrics, a total of 5 out of 84with several more defunct, in a paralytic state, or extant as an amorphous, vague, society-likeentity without formal status, stature, or standing. Every prospective test-taker, communitysearcher, or society member looking to expand networks, may utilize such networks to enter intomore of the community of the high-IQ or the high-range high-IQ world. Moving farther out intothe levels of cognitive rarity for entrance into the society or the claims of the society, the greatervariance in the reliability of the claims because of the larger margins of error. Also, as onemoves out of the safer range of the search, the more ‘issues’ one will encounter based on wellarticulated and presented historical records, ongoing cases, and warnings in other, moreappropriate fora.If looking for the most accurate and professional assessments of cognitive function and generalintelligence, then one should take a proctored (conducted by qualified professional) mainstreamintelligence test in the form of an up-to-date Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) or

12Stanford-Binet (SB) intelligence test for the highest sigma(s) and the most comprehensiveassessments of general intelligence known to date, while the Raven’s Advanced ProgressiveMatrices (RAPM) may provide a culture-fair IQ test of general intelligence with a limitation inthe extent of the sigma(s) compared to the WAIS or the SB brands of mainstream generalintelligence tests, i.e., WAIS-III/IV/V, Stanford-Binet 5, or the RAPM. The first attempt is themost accurate. If wanting something more for amusement, challenge, fun, intrigue, orspeculation, then the alternative intelligence tests can count for something with wide variabilityin quality and seriousness of effort in the construction of the alternative intelligence test.Although, as I have noted in many interviews, recently, “High range testing (HRT) should betaken with honest skepticism grounded in the limited empirical development of the field atpresent, even in spite of honest and sincere efforts. If a higher general intelligence score, then thegreater the variability in, and margin of error in, the general intelligence scores because of thegreater rarity in the population.” Only believe, or take the most seriously, an IQ score based onthe first attempt under the real name, not a pseudonym, on alternative tests or mainstream testswith greater reliability and validity considered between the IQ score range of 40 and 160, on anS.D. of 15, and lesser reliability and validity with IQ scores lower than 40 and higher than 160,on an S.D. of 15, where the higher standards would include a mainstream test proctored by aqualified professional. Also, life advice: don’t make it your life - have a life, you can use theabove recipe if you want greater odds of a real assessment and democratic community.The Giga Society Conversations presents about half of the membership of the Giga Society withone opening interview with Cooijmans. The interviews ordered alphabetically by first name afterthe presentation of the interview with Cooijmans: Andreas Gunnarsson, Evangelos Katsioulis,Matthew Scillitani, Rick Rosner, and Thomas Wolf. If on an S.D. of 15, 16, or 24, then the GigaSociety as a theoretical 6-sigma society implies IQs of 190, 196, or 244, respectively. All mean 6sigmas above the norm with different standard deviations (S.D.) for the translation as the sigmaand, thus, differential IQs stipulated, though each with the same cognitive rarity, whether ‘IQ190, 196, or 244’ if applying S.D. 15, 16, or 24. Most of the interviews cover the content of theindividual history of the members of the Giga Society. Other portions cover some of the ideas orgeneral views of the individuals. A minority of the interviews enter into more depth about thenuances of the ideas of the interviewee.The Giga Society can provide a space for some of the most challenging alternative high-rangetests available to date to individuals with an interest in taking part in the intellectual challenge ofnumerical, spatial, and verbal tests. If more test takers take part in longstanding efforts andcontribute to databases of high-range test scores, then this will increase the reliability andvalidity, over the long term, of the high-range testing field, which seems nearer to its infancythan its maturity – let alone full maturity. All of the content of the book would not exist withoutCooijmans or the high-range communities insofar as these exist in pockets and to variousdegrees. Due credit and gratitude to the efforts of Cooijmans, the participants for the interviews,and the patience of every one involved for this project, this took about five years to compile andorganize in total. Happy reading.Scott Douglas JacobsenJuly 12, 2020

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15Paul Cooijmans: Independent Psychometitor;Administrator, The Giga Society; Administrator, TheGlia Society (Part One)July 1, 2015AbstractInterview with Paul Cooijmans. Independent psychometitor and administrator of The GliaSociety and The Giga Society. He discusses: main personal work, information from personalwebsites, three main websites, and presentation of personal information, publications, andsocieties, numerous, diverse interests centered in high-range intelligence and itsmeasurement, and family background with respect to geography, culture, and language;the influence of these on development; and additional influences and pivotal moments inmajor cross-sections of early life including kindergarten, elementary school, junior highschool, high school, and undergraduate studies (college/university).1. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Your main collections of personal work and information comefrom personal websites. Of those with an interest in this, the three main websites provideplenty of collected works on subject matter of interest to you. You have presentation ofpersonal information, publications, and societies elsewhere. One can find numerous,diverse interests centered in high-range intelligence and its measurement. To begin thisconversation, in terms of geography, culture, and language, where does your familybackground reside?Paul Cooijmans: My family is from the south of the Netherlands, from the eastern part of theprovince of Noord-Brabant, and of a Roman Catholic non-intellectual working class background.My first language is the local dialect as spoken in the village of Lieshout. I learnt StandardNetherlandic later, in primary school. People in this region are anecdotally said to beBurgundians, meaning they are keen on the good life, food, wine, beer, and feasting, but it

No official catalogue record for this book, as an independent endeavour. Names: Jacobsen, Scott Douglas, authors Title: The Giga Society Conversations / Scott Douglas Jacobsen Description: British Columbia: In-Sight Publishing, 2020. . ii. An Interview with Matthew Scillitani on Society,