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Cover of Joel Shurkin’s 1992 Terman’s Kids, wherein he ironically reports on how, in all of Lewis Terman’s gifted study, in Terman's decade of testing kids, in and around California, with his IQ tests, so to presumably identify “giftedness” and supposedly “future geniuses”, that the only two notable geniuses that resulted, in actuality, from the effort, were two that didn’t make the identifying cut of IQ of 135 or above (see: IQ scale), namely: transistor inventor William Shockley and asteroid impact extinction theorist Luis Alvarez, both Nobel Laureates in physics. In genius studies, Terman gifted study refers to a 1916 to 1928 IQ testing study, conducted by Lewis Terman, wherein 1,000s of children in and around Palo Alto, California, were tested to isolate those scoring an IQ of 135 or above on Terman's newly developed Stanford-Binet intelligence test; some 1,528 "genius" range approaching children were identified, and thereafter studied for patterns and traits, and followed thereaf

Cover of Joel Shurkin’s 1992 Terman’s Kids, wherein he ironically reports on how, in all of Lewis Terman’s gifted study, in Terman's decade of testing kids, in and around California, with his IQ tests, so to presumably identify “giftedness” and supposedly “future geniuses”, that the only two notable geniuses that resulted, in actuality, from the effort, were two that didn’t make the identifying cut of IQ of 135 or above (see: IQ scale), namely: transistor inventor William Shockley and asteroid impact extinction theorist Luis Alvarez, both Nobel Laureates in physics. In genius studies, Terman g

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