If you love mental testing
and if you’ve always wanted to learn more about your intelligence – what it is,
how you can improve it – then you’ll feel right at home here.
My interest in intelligence
testing started many years ago, when I was about 15. One day my father brought
back a puzzle book which contained a short IQ test designed by Mensa, the high
IQ association. It was my very first contact with an intelligence test. The
effect it had on me was sudden and electrifying: taking this test was a true
awakening, the beginning of a life-long romance with intelligence measurement
and improvement which is still alive and strong today.
The purpose of this website
is therefore to share with you my passion. There is still so much to explore
and learn about intelligence that I find it hard not to be curious and
enthusiastic!!! I hope you can feel the same (most of you I am sure probably
do).
My full name is Philippe
RUIZ, PhD, but most people call me Phil. I am currently based in Lille, a city
in the North of France (very close to England).
If you haven’t guessed it
already, I am a psychometrician,
i.e. someone who is skilled in the administration and interpretation of
objective psychological tests, someone who devises, constructs, and
standardizes psychometric tests. I am thus a scientist able to measure people's
mental capacities and thought processes (i.e. how a mind functions and how it
compares to others).
I was once an associate
researcher at the SCALAB (formerly URECA), the prestigious cognitive science laboratory
of the University of Lille. I have published many papers in French and a few in
English.
You can find the links to my
two most important English articles right below. The journals in which I was
published (Intelligence and Behavioral Research Methods) are considered
to be among the best (if not the best) in the field of intelligence and
psychometrics:
Building and solving
odd-one-out classification problems: A systematic approach. Intelligence, 39(5), 342-350
Measuring fluid intelligence
on a ratio scale: Evidence from nonverbal classification problems and
information entropy. Behavior Research Methods,
41(2), 439-445
I am currently an
independent consultant (working for my own company) doing research in the
following areas:
1- How to measure mental
improvement accurately.
2- How to target core brain
systems and obtain high-impact neuroplasticity changes.
3- How to boost intelligence
and scholastic achievement and how to create predictive models to find out.
4- How to maximize cognitive
development and get the best out of everybody’s thinking potential.
If you wish to evaluate or improve
your own intelligence, you may contact me (Phil – the author) by clicking on
the profile link (above right) or by typing in the following email address:
