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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Among the ones we've picked in the Science Talent Search, all of those practically that have a--
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that want to go to college and are fit for it do get scholarships and I think that'll be true with your group as well.

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{SPEAKER name="Elizabeth Drews"}
Well we hope so [[laughs]], because they certainly are people who could make very good use of them. Very few of them ever have below a B minus grade,
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occasionally we get that low-- our low achievers, but that isn't a very low achievement.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Well I wanted to ask you and [[uhm]]-- and I have ideas on this too, Dr. Drews,
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but I'd like to know what your opinion is. Are these eggheads-- will you call-- are they called eggheads by their associates in school?

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{SPEAKER name="Elizabeth Drews"}
Well, you know, I-I think there's a lot more acceptance of the intellectual
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and the egghead in our society, than perhaps some of the popular magazines have led us to believe.
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I have a feeling that some of the boys in our group are the outstanding football players,
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they're our class presidents. These children hold on an average two offices per child
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and we were looking at them and then comparing them with an average group with average ability,
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and these children who were only average held perhaps a half an office per child if that is possible [[laughs]].
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But this is the kind of thing that-- they do more of everything,
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they're better students, but they're also good athletes, they hold more offices, they read more books.
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They evidently have longer days than the rest of us [[laughs]]. Maybe they've found the secret of not sleeping or something.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Well that's true, these youngsters don't sleep. They work all hours, they get so enthusiastic then[[?]] they have fun you know?
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Science is synonymous with them for fun.
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{SPEAKER name="Elizabeth Drews"}
Yes, I think there are probably some rather subtle differences between the ones that want to be scientists
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and the ones maybe who are [[uhm]] moving into the social science or public relation areas.
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This is one thing that we're hoping to study more thoroughly, but you may remember this article that Turman wrote a couple of years ago on "Are Scientists Different?"
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And perhaps they do have more fun in this quiet way, in the experimental way,
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than some of the others who are more active people that are out in social gatherings all the time. And I know it's dangerous to generalize
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that all of our children are holding offices, because I suppose some of our top scientists are not holding offices, maybe they're quiet.
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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Well your-your findings certainly parallel as I remembered the experience that we've had in charting up what these Science Talent Search winners do.
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What the top-- the finalists and the
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Transcription Notes:
Should egghead in the way they are using it be in quotes?