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{SPEAKER name="Elizabeth Drews"}
What we've done is somewhat the same, not on as large a scale or perhaps been able to draw our lines quite so finely as you have,
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but about four years ago we went through 3,000 records
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and picked out the top one hundred and fifty children that we could find at that time and we've been following them for four years.
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One interesting thing, especially in relation to the boys, has been their movement towards choice of careers in science.
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At the present time, about half of this group are boys, the girls are just as smart as the boys by the way [[laughter]],
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but about the half of the group, the boys [[uhm]] are very much interested in science.
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In fact, last spring when we surveyed them, three-fours of these boys
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were saying that they wanted to become either scientists or engineers and the choices were sort of [[uhm]],
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sometimes both were being chosen and they weren't absolutely sure, but this was quite a number more than had chosen this as a career eight years ago.
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But the survey was before Sputnik.
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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
How many of the--What are the ages of these--?
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{SPEAKER name="Elizabeth Drews"}
Well at present, they're moving into the senior year in high school or are graduating right now,
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so that-- they are people ready to go to college. And another thing that interested us--
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so many people have been saying, "Well, lots of our bright children don't go to college or don't want to go to college.
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They aren't interested." But we didn't have a single boy in this group who didn't plan to go to college.
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And I think maybe only one or two girls out of the 150,
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and two-thirds of the boys were planning for graduate work.
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Now, this doesn't mean that they will all get there, because many of them come from very ordinary homes [[uhm]].
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Three-fours of their fathers are laborers, either skilled or unskilled, or lower level white collar jobs,
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so I don't know whether they'll get to college. They just want to go, that's all.
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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Well Dr. Drews, today I think that our civilization is set up actually so that these very bright children,
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these people that have very high motivation, will have a chance get to college.
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Our experience has been that--