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I had posted some questions about linear,non-linear etc. I said I was going to do some research. I got an email today from the IQ society/World Intelligence network.

Anyway, there are some interesting postings from the adult PG world.

link:

http://www.iqsociety.org/boards

There is a lot there, but I found it interesting to read some comments about gifted education.

I hope someone finds it useful.

Ren

I checked it out briefly, but will read more when I have more time.
Very interesting, thanks for posting the link.

Ren,

Will check it out seriously later but thanks for the concept of (yeah( adults.

A

There was one post that talked about longterm outcomes. I remember a study on Hunter students, wondering if they would find a bunch of "Bill Gates", they didn't but they did find successful, contented people.

And the comment I found sort of addressed the Bill Gates factor. I saw a documentary on the founding of Microsoft a few years ago. Bill Gates talked about how he and Paul Allen were high school buddies who were really into computers and got into some mainframe that IBM made. It was some new thing and they were in contact with IBM and really got into it and IBM started referring clients to them for consulting. By 11th grade they were the leading consultants for that mainframe. It was just a hobby but the motivation thing was there to dig, dig, dig.

The post I saw talked that if PG kids do not find something that motivates them, they fall off performance and many just coast into oblivion unless they find somethiing to dig their teeth into. I paraphrase, but it was interesting to see from the other side.

Ren