Editorial by the Editor-in-Chief
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): USIA Research Journal (United Sigma Intelligence Association/USIA, formerly United Sigma Korea/USK, founded by HanKyung Lee, M.D. in 2007 as United Sigma Korea, published then removed without request after resignation)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2020/02
Dear Reader(s),
Thank you for taking the time to read this inaugural issue of the USIA Research Journal, this amounts to the clerical letter:
The United Sigma Intelligence Association (USIA), formerly United Sigma Korea (USK), exists to gather exclusively gifted people with high levels of intelligence and/or education in order to provide an intellectual space to encourage the sharing and exploring of ideas while contributing to the fields of intelligence research, artificial and human. The USIA contains the first and the oldest 3 sigma, 4 sigma, and 5 sigma high intelligence societies in South Korea, founded by HanKyung Lee, MD on January 22, 2008, July 3, 2007, and July 25, 2012, respectively. With an international scope, the USIA is an umbrella association containing the Three Sigma Associate Society (TSA), the Four Sigma Associate Society (FSA), and the Extreme Sigma Associate Society (ESA), or 3 sigma, 4 sigma, and 5 sigma intelligence societies, respectively. The USIA is forming a network of respected real-world intellectuals based on high intelligence (estimated by a psychologist PhD or Psychiatrist MD) or equivalent educational/intellectual performance. It is integrating with world-class academics, outstanding scholars, and real-world intellectuals. It is encouraging high-level intellectuals through either top-level academic performance or real-world intellectual achievement. It is interviewing members and introduces members’ works, and publishing as seen with the USIA Research Journal. Our current organizational structure exists as follows:
1) Founder
2) President/Executive Director
3) Executive Vice-President
4) Senior Vice-President
5) Senior Director/Editor-in-Chief
6) Senior Neuropsychologist/Senior Editor
7) Honorary/Advisory Board Members
8) ESA Fellows/Special Members
9) FSA Members/Special Members
10) TSA Members/Special Members.
Duly note, all USIA fellows remain in the ESA Fellow categorization, and vice versa, to avoid confusion. The USIA Research Journal results from communication, collaboration, and ongoing positive developments between Mr. Kim and I since 2019. It started from a message to me. Mr. Kim had an idea. He wanted to collaborate. Over time, this became working together on English-based letters and then reaching out to interested people, and, eventually, a working relationship as part of the USIA Executive Board as a Senior Director, a USIA Fellow, and the Editor-in-Chief of the USIA Research Journal. Things developed fast for us. I remain humbled and honored for this opportunity provided, fundamentally, by Dr. Lee and then Mr. Kim, as I exist, more or less, on the far periphery or orbit of the societies, the tests, and the larger community discussions here. The exchange between Mr. Kim and I will continue onwards, as seems typical by this time, in mutual learning, respect, and information exchange in the production of aspects of USIA and the production of the USIA Research Journal. Following these developments towards a non-peer-reviewed journal — important to note, and the inclusion of the Honorary/Advisory Board members, Mr. Kim decided to partner the USIA with the Mega Foundation and Mega International with the newest representation of the President and Executive Director of the Mega Foundation, respectively, on the Executive Board of the USIA in the middle of January, 2020. The Mega Foundation is a 501c(3) tax-exempt non-profit corporation established in 1999 to create and implement programs that aid in the development of severely gifted individuals and their ideas. USIA is the first organization devoted to high intelligence the Mega Foundation has made a partnership, since its inception in 1999. The formal partnership between USIA and the Mega Foundation and Mega International began in 2020. The submissions for the inaugural issue amount to Honorary/Advisory Board members or other fellows at this time. Some others include individuals with formal academic credentials and connections to post-secondary institutions while not operating as fellows or members of USIA, e.g., Yonsei University in South Korea as a professor.
I do not mean these as personal, associational, organizational, or societal critiques, or of those involved in the experimental and/or high range intelligence testing or communities, but as friendly, gentle, and transparent general points with varying validity on tests at these ranges — important for the general public too. As this amounts to an association (USIA), and the journal of an association (the USIA Research Journal), devoted to high ability representation and intellectual productions, on issues of intelligence testing, high range intelligence testing should be taken with honest skepticism grounded in the limited empirical development of the field at present, even in spite of honest and sincere efforts. If a higher general intelligence score, then the greater the variability in, and margin of error in, the general intelligence scores because of the greater rarity in the population. That is to say, human general intelligence amounts to an approximated human trait with greater variation in the findings with the rarer the ability one may hope to discover in a person or group of people within the human species. Whether TSA, FSA, or ESA, respectively, the same principles apply with greater variation as one moves from TSA to FSA to ESA levels of approximated general intelligence. The further principle of greater skepticism applies when one uses non-mainstream/alternative intelligence tests, especially non mainstream/alternative intelligence tests above 4-sigma, in contrast to mainstream intelligence testing up to and including 4-sigma (e.g., TSA and FSA). The USIA only accepts mainstream intelligence tests and test scores for admissions, or, at a minimum, the most valid and substantiated general intelligence tests. Intelligence tests above 4-sigma, alternative/non mainstream, have been compromised in the past, taken several times with only the higher scores claimed rather than the lower score or the average of the scores taken, taken in different circumstances under real names and pseudonyms, tend to exist with low sample sizes, may only test specific mental skills within the remit of general intelligence, may be unsupervised, may be mail-home, may be online, may mark a time of low confidence when testing, can be bound to the English language alone, may contain educational biases, may contain cultural biases, and may not correlate strongly, even sufficiently, with mainstream intelligence tests. The trust in them can exist, but should, probably, be moderated with several potential issues in different alternative tests. Even in mainstream intelligence tests, high heritability appears to exist in familial and twin studies for intelligence while comprehensive and robust genetic markers remain unseen or marginally observed at this time. Many facets of intelligence appear open questions with others as more closed questions than open now. Nonetheless, general intelligence does considerably correlate with educational achievement and success in some distinct variables of life.
Finally, I express appreciation and gratitude to the Founder of the USIA, formerly USK, Dr. HanKyung Lee, MD for founding USK in the 2000s and continuing into the 2010s, and the current President/Executive Director Mr. YoungHoon Kim for leadership of USIA in the latter portions of the 2010s and into the 2020s, the Executive Board including the Senior Editor and Executive Director of the Mega Foundation Dr. Gina Langan (and special thanks to Michal Szczęsny and the CTMU Media Workshop crew for proofreading Mr. Langan’s submission alongside Dr. Langan’s editorial work on metaphysics — full credit on Mr. Langan’s materials to Dr. Langan and them), Honorary/Advisory Board, and, most of all, the membership and the readership as none of this makes sense without you.
Through the creation of USIA Research Journal, the evolution of USK into USIA, and planned developments for USIA between Mr. Kim and I, we evolved something special, potentially unique. I hope this serves the community well and honors the trust given to us.
Your Stray Canadian,
Mr. Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Senior Director/Editor-in-Chief, USIA
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