Scott Barry Kaufman

Are you serious?

Nick couldn't have been more wonderful, more supportive, and he must have seen something in me.

He saw the person that I was in that moment.

I mean, he didn't know my background.

By the way, I kept all this a secret from him throughout all the times we worked together and everything.

You know, he didn't look at my IQ score when I was age 11.

And he accepted me to work with him.

And I did some pretty rigorous research with him in that six months as an undergrad that would then form the basis of my master's thesis with him.

He said, this is not an intelligence test that I'm creating.

This is a test that I've been given the task of differentiating those who would need more remediation and those who don't.

We say only about the child's current needs, not his future potential.

He said this.

Binet said this in the manual, in the testing, the Binet manual, the original manual.

He says things like that.

We do not even begin to purport what this person is capable of.

The great tragedy of that story is that they ended up never using his tests in France.

It completely betrayed the spirit, the philosophy, the principles upon which Binet originally wanted to create the test.

Completely betrayed him.

And on his deathbed, he wrote an essay saying, the Americans have betrayed me.

Terman was very, very interested in giftedness and really had this idea in his head that genius is only recruited from the line of high IQ.