Scott Barry Kaufman

I don't know if that word quite applies, but it almost instantly seduced me into loving the science of IQ intelligence.

And I forgot that I was supposed to be on this vendetta.

I mean, if you read this book, The Science of IQ by McIntosh, it's just...

So interesting to see all the little nuances of the field.

Things that just didn't dawn on me could be true.

I had all these ideologies and thoughts that there's no such thing as general intelligence or that IQ doesn't matter in life.

And then here I am reading in this textbook.

It generally didn't have to be this way, but it's very interesting.

curious that someone's score on a non-verbal IQ test could correlate so highly with someone's score on a verbal.

And then he would ask questions like, what is it about vocabulary that could be in common in terms of cognitive processes than rotating an image in the mind?

My curiosity just took over, you know, and I started actually doing really traditional, serious experimental research with him when I got there to Cambridge.

Something that I found fascinating, and I started to go to Nick McIntosh's lectures, he did present data showing the correlation between IQ and lots of outcomes in life.

And that was a time I did feel a little triggered based on my childhood.

And I found it very, very interesting and almost a moral quandary.

He presented like basically the same table I saw when I was 16 and said that in the library.

He presented that in his lecture at University of Cambridge showing the different IQ bands and what they tend to do in their life.

Like, oh my gosh, this did really this chart again.

I kind of like snapped back to my childhood.

And I was like, well, what do I do?

Because this is the science.