Scott Barry Kaufman

That was the term they used.

You're backwards, if that's the case.

But you're gifted if your mental age far exceeds your chronological age.

McIntosh was a traditional British psychometrician.

I mean, that's as traditional IQ as you get on paper and pencil.

But his personality and his demeanor and everything about him just signaled a pure, pure love of science.

No agenda.

No agenda on Nick McIntosh's part.

He wrote a textbook, The Science of IQ.

which I remember reading and it almost instantly made me a, I won't say convert.

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?