Paul Cooijmans

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.