Okay I found her, she was a professor at Hunter College in Education, Rena Subotnik. She created the Center for Gifted Education there but she is no longer there she is now the Director of Gifted Ed Policy at the APA (serious credentials!).However, I could still only find the study of the 1947 graduates and what they were doing. I couldn't find anything which compared the two incoming classes. Super frustrating as I have now read some of her stuff, very interesting and would like to see this. On the up side did read about the CGE at Hunter and they seem very connected to HCES so I am surprised that the parents are so frustrated. Do the elem kids have that much trouble when they get to HS?

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[/quote]This was shown in a study of adult graduates of New York City's Hunter College Elementary School, where an admission criterion was an IQ of at least 130 (achieved by a little over 1 per cent of the general population) and the mean IQ was 157 - "genius" territory by any scaling of IQ scores, and a level reached by perhaps 1 in 5000 people. Though the Hunter graduates were successful and reasonably content with their lives, they had not reached the heights of accomplishment, either individually or as a group, that their IQs might have suggested.

In the words of study leader Rena Subotnik, a research psychologist formerly at the City University of New York and now with the American Psychological Association: "There were no superstars, no Pulitzer Prize or MacArthur Award winners, and only one or two familiar names." The genius these elite students showed in their IQs remained on paper.[quote]

the article which that quote came from mentioned clustering and chunking as the key to achievement and that Subotnik's studies of Westinghouse and Julliard people focused on the connection with mentors who kept them on task, the Westinghouse people went to college and typically abandoned their focus. Really interesting stuff. (back to the original post finally!!) How to be a genius

But I just stopped looking to post because you know what else showed up in my google search: THIS THREAD!!!! That was very disconcerting. After the discussion about facebook and twitter I still did not realize that the individual threads would show up in a google search!!!

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