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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Our Adventures in Science guest today is Dr. Elizabeth Drews,
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Associate Professor of Education at Michigan State University.
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Dr. Drews, one of the problems in our civilization is to pick the people
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that can give the largest amount of contribution to our communities.
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That is, let them do the things they're best fitted to do.
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Now we have among our children a large number of people
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that are really well suited to do very interesting and important work.
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I think, perhaps, what do you call them, gifted children?
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{SPEAKER name="Elizabeth Drews"}
Well that's what we call them sometimes
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or very superior, talented, all these words are acceptable I guess.
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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Well now, Dr. Drews, is the IQ still in good repute?
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Can you put it in terms of IQ,
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are you particularly interested in youngsters with IQ of more, what, 125?
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{SPEAKER name="Elizabeth Drews"}
Well, going back to your other question about the IQ being in good repute,
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I think you'd have to say what IQ, because some are better than others,
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it depends on if you have an individual test, or a group test,
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whether it's carefully administered or carelessly,
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So, but if in general I suppose you could say if we want to pick out our superior group
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we'd be picking out people, oh, the top 5 percent,
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or perhaps if we're talking about the most gifted,
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although I was at Connotes Conference, the National Education Association in Washington,
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and there we were talking about a group called the Academically Talented,
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and we'd call them the top 15-20%, and I imagine they go down to about 120 IQ,
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whereas your top 5% would be your 130 IQ and above. Is that the sort of thing that--
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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Yes, precisely, now, we've been very in science service, with which I am connected Dr. Drews
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we've been very much interested in this talented group,
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'cause we operate the science talent search
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and for 17 years we've picked 300 of the top youngsters
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from the senior classes of the high schools as those who are most likely to go ahead
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and become the creative scientists of the future,
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we've had a good deal of success, but here in Michigan here,
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you've been doing a somewhat similar thing,
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you, I'd think you've been looking into the school records
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and you found some very gifted youngsters
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and you've been following them along, won't you tell us about it?

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