5,000 Genius Kids Were Studied For 45 Years

5,000 Genius Kids Were Studied For 45 Years.

The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) was founded by Julian C. Stanley, on 1 September 1971, at Johns Hopkins University. Camilla P. Benbow and David Lubinski co-direct SMPY at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. They planned to complete a 50-year longitudinal study of five cohorts, consisting of over 5,000 intellectually talented individuals, identified over a 25-year period (1972-1997). The aim of this research is to develop a better understanding of the unique needs of intellectually precocious youth and the determinants of the contrasting developmental trajectories they display over the lifespan. The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth is a bit of a misnomer, however, because verbally precocious youth have been included for longitudinal tracking, and participants are now all adults. Nevertheless, SMPY has been chosen to be retained to maintain consistency. Four of SMPY’s five cohorts were identified by talent searches by age 13. These cohorts vary in ability level ranging from the top 3% to the top .01% in quantitative or verbal reasoning ability. A fifth cohort of 714 participants, identified as first- or second-year graduate students attending top U.S. math/science programmes in 1992, complements the first four cohorts of talent search participants by, among other things, affording an opportunity to assess the generalisability of the talent search model for identifying scientific potential. This article is just one of many over the years as results became available following the study. Credit: Vanderbilt University’s Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth.

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