In 1921, 1528 gifted schoolchildren were selected from a population of about 250,000. These children were chosen by their teachers as having shown signs of giftedness, and were then further filtered by subsequent “tests”.
The progress of these children was tracked throughout their lifetimes and actually continued till 2005, and collectively, between them the gifted ones had published 2000+ scientific and technical papers, ,60 books and monographs, 230 patents, 33 novels, 375 short stories, and 265 articles.
Surprisingly two subsequent Nobel laureates failed to make the grade: William Shockley, the inventor of the transistor, and Luis Alvarez, for the liquid hydrogen bubble chamber.
What was this group popularly referred to as?
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The Termites
The Termites
the study was known as Terman study conducted by Dr. Lewis M. Terman and Dr. Catherine Miles Cox
mites. The study is detailed in Malcolm Gladwell's recent bestseller Outliers.
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