What Would Buz Say? -- "Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 2, line 75"

In 2016, my first year as Editor-In-Chief, Intelligence received 228 new manuscripts. By year-end, final decisions had been made on 172 (the others were under revision or review). Of these 172, 44 were accepted after peer... [ view full abstract ]

In 2016, my first year as Editor-In-Chief, Intelligence received 228 new manuscripts. By year-end, final decisions had been made on 172 (the others were under revision or review). Of these 172, 44 were accepted after peer review (26%), 69 were rejected after peer review (40%), and I desk-rejected 53 (31%); 3% were withdrawn. Many of the manuscripts – even rejected ones -- were in areas such as the importance to understanding individual differences in intelligence of understanding how people use cognitive skills in everyday life that Buz pioneered. I will summarize a few of these papers, attempting to evaluate them and what they say about the current state of progress in his areas of interest as he would have done. He was a masterful reviewer, often livening the task with his ever-ready sense of humor, as illustrated by this terse pre-internet response to an author who challenged one of his reviews: “Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 2, line 75 (FTLN2135).” [If you want to understand, look it up, as he made the author do, which at the time required a trip to the library; today with the internet, use this link: http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/Ado.html].