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What happens to gifted children
Intelligence strongly correlates with positive educational and career outcomes, but it is not everything.
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A person’s intelligence is embedded in and interacting with all that person’s other qualities, says the writer.
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David Brooks
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What happens to the extremely intelligent? Do they go from success to success, powered by their natural brilliance? Or do they struggle in a world where they don’t fit in?
There are two ways to answer these questions. The first is the social science answer. Social science researchers give promising children intelligence tests, and then they check in on them over the ensuing decades to see how much the students’ early intelligence correlates with lifetime success.
