Stephen Dubner
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Sep
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write, the NFL teams aggregate pre-draft information, including qualitative observations, quite effectively, and their inability to consistently identify college quarterbacks who will excel in the professional ranks
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is a consequence of random variability in future performance due to factors which are unlikely to be observable.
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So talk to me about those unobservable factors, what they are and how you try to think about them.
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Well, don't you have to have three more to have a rush for?
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Talk to me for a bit about how cognitive abilities are measured.
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Football fans have heard for years about the Wunderlich, which I assume is either not used much or at all anymore.
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So just talk to me about that style of testing and
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Coming up after the break, the sports psychologist who is trying to build a better prediction engine.
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I'm Stephen Dubner.
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This is Freakonomics Radio.
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We will be right back.
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That is Scott Goldman, the founder of Athletic Intelligence Quotient, or AIQ.
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Before that, he was a practicing psychologist.
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At the University of Arizona, Goldman became one of the first sports psychologists embedded within a Division I program.
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His work there caught the attention of the NCAA, which in 2013 asked Goldman to join a new task force on mental health.
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By then, he had been thinking about the quarterback prediction dilemma for a while.
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One classic example came from the 1998 NFL draft.
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The Wunderlich test that was used for years by NFL teams was created in 1936 by a Northwestern University graduate student named Eldon Wunderlich.
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It was meant to help an employer assess the problem-solving and reasoning abilities of prospective employees.
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