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Picking a great NFL quarterback seems like it shouldn’t be that difficult. Teams have college stats, game tape, the scouting combine, cognitive tests, and armies of experts. And yet quarterback evaluation remains “one of the most studied and still most uncertain problems in all of professional sport.” Sports psychologist @ScottGoldmanPhD set out to better understand one piece of the puzzle: the role intelligence plays in athletic performance. His Athletic Intelligence Quotient, or AIQ, grew out of 15 years studying cognitive challenges in the military, among first responders, and in sports. Today, AIQ is used by @NFL teams and other professional sports organizations to understand how athletes process information. But how would a non-athlete do on the same test?