A Summary Table from the Fiji Study of IQ:¹

¹The date are summarized on page 161 of the original report, William Maxwell, Experiments on Improving the Mental Abilities in Children. Suva, Fiji: The School of Education, the University of the South Pacific. 1981. (The University of the South Pacific is the "national university" of the 12 smaller anglophone nations of the Pacific, including Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, etc.) The data were tabulated by Ramaiya Naidu following a review by three faculty members, including Dr. Robert A.C. Stewart, Ph.D., who was the most senior psychologist at the university at the time. There were 17 experiments chosen by the students. Two IQ tests were administered as pre-tests. A different investigator administered the post-tests without knowing which child was in which group. The original experiment was conducted in the September term of 1980. The experiment was repeated in 1981, 1982, and 1983, with the results being similar each year. The original study was reported in several refereed journals, including in The International Journal of Education and Development (U.K), January, 1982; and Educational Leadership, (U.S.) March, 1983;

²The Investigators were teachers of various South Pacific nations, with an average of 12 years teaching experience, returning to the University to earn the bachelor's degree. The course was "An Introduction to Educational Research."

³CHIPS (Child's Intellectual Progress Scale) is an IQ test in three forms developed by the author after the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the original Alfred Binet IQ test. CABS (Children's Adaptive Behavior Scale) is a standard IQ test for children developed by Professors Richmond and Kicklightner.

⁴The Space Wawo game is a astronomical version of Kalah with the counters being in six colors. A player wins a solar system when she makes an array that contains all six colors, representing a sun, a planet, a satellite, a comet, an asteroid, and a meteor.

⁵Inventive Quotient, I.Q. uses nine sets of abstract symbols, two sets of which were chosen by the Chinese 23 centuries ago for their playing cards, which is one of the world's oldest learning aids. Inventive Quotient, I.Q. was patented in Fiji.

⁶Some samples are too small to draw any inference regarding some of the specific variables in this study. The study was, however, large enough (n = 364) to strongly support a general proposition: Most treatments, particularly games and play, are highly effective for improving children's thinking skills, as measured by traditional IQ tests.:

This Summary was edited: August, 2004.

University of Advancing Technology Announces First US Appointment of
Professor of Thinking

Tempe, Ariz., July 21, 2004-The University of Advancing Technology (UAT) has appointed Professor William Maxwell, Ed.D, a Harvard University alumnus, as Professor of Thinking. This is the first appointment of such a title in the United States and the second on the world stage. The first recipient of the title was Rhodes Scholar Professor Edward de Bono, M.D., Ph.D. from Malta. Professor Bono holds terminal degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge universities and has written 65 books on thinking.

Professor Maxwell began his career in 1954 at Chonnam National University in Korea and has also held various professor and dean titles at the University of Wisconsin, North Carolina State University, California State University, Fresno to name just a few. He is also the founder of the International Conference on Thinking which began in 1982 at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. The conference has since been held at locations throughout the world. Professor Maxwell's book, 'Thinking: The Expanded Frontier: Proceedings of the International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Thinking', is on the recommended reading list on thinking at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

In his capacity at the University of Advancing Technology, Professor Maxwell will assist both students and faculty in all forms of thinking including inductive, deductive, lateral, divergent and creative. Thinking, as now understood, involves mastering more than logic. Thinking includes educating the emotions and preparing the next generation to assist the human species to continue to evolve in desirable directions, in all htmects of life and being. In bringing these advanced thinking principles to a university system, both students and faculty are better equipped to think creatively and become life-long learners.

The University of Advancing Technology is an ACICS accredited private college located in Tempe, Arizona. Founded in 1983, UAT is home to over 900 students coming from all 50 states and over 20 different countries who all share one thing in common- a deep passion for technology. The University is nationally recognized for its innovative "Year-Round Balance Learning" methodologies and degree curriculum. UAT offers Associate's, Bachelor's and Master's degrees in both arts and sciences focused in today's most advanced technologies.

"Veritas"

In the Mel Gibson film on "The Passion of Christ", the Latin word "Veritas" appears several times. Gibson seems to be signaling that most humans -- not merely Jews and Romans at the time of Jesus -- violently resist the "Truth" at almost every opportunity. Is Gibson theory supported by history?

Every throne in Europe snubbed Columbus, except one, that one occupied by a woman. Galileo was arrested and threatened with death when he offered a new theory of the structure of our solar system. When the American Declaration of Independence, announcing, "We hold these Truths to be self-evident . . .", was promulgated, almost half of the Colonies' affluent citizens fled to Canada or abroad. When the physician Semmelweis discovered that invisible organisms (bacteria) were responsible for nearly 40% of childbirth deaths at Vienna's General Hospital, he was certified insane by his peers. Darwin was attacked from virtually every pulpit in Europe. The founder of the modern Olympics, Baron de Coubertin, was barred from the second Olympiad in Paris and rendered bankrupt by his enemies. The Wright Brothers were refused financing in America and had to seek funding in Switzerland. One hundred of Germany's top physicists appeared at a public forum in Berlin to dismiss Einstein's Theory of Relativity as "Jewish Physics."

Perhaps one of the most painful and far-reaching illustrations of mankind's contempt for "The Truth," is what happened to Alfred Binet, the inventor of the first IQ test. Dr. Binet published his research studies and concluded that a child's intelligence is like a fertile field, if one cultivation method doesn't work, try another, he argued. Only Claude Levi-Strauss, the great French anthropologist, understand the implications of Binet's papers, that all humans are born geniuses. Less than two percent of American teachers have read Binet's pioneering work on intelligence. Thus, one of the cruelest punishments to the pioneer -- and to society -- is to ignore the ideas of the inspired "Truth Seeker."

In April, 2004, 100 years after the invention of the first IQ Test, a Harvard-educated professor and an Arizona State University mathematics graduate unveiled the world's first practical application of Alfred Binet's revolutionary theory. The unveiling took place at the annual Convention of the American Educational Research Association meeting in San Diego, April 13 - 15, for approximately 8,000 researchers and educators. Maxwell's and Sanford's application is a set of forty IQ-raising games, involving about five to ten minutes of mental exercises per day. Dr. William Maxwell, a Harvard educated professor and a resident of Phoenix, developed and patented the games in Fiji and Mr. Larry Sanford, a Poway, California resident, adapted those games for the computer. The application is called INVENTIVE QUOTIENT, I.Q. and promises to raise the IQ of a child by up to nineteen points, and also to train every child on how to invent and be creative within the child's "True Calling." Maxwell and Sanford are offering the first CD of the mental exercises for a mere $20 in harmony with Alfred Binet's humanitarian impulses. Proceeds from the sale of the CD will help fund a new kind of school, The Global Academy for International Athletics.