Part 1.
Winner of 1 vs. 100 who had an IQ of 195.
Who is Christopher Langan?
The age that Langan read Principia Mathematica.
What is 16 years old?
The answer given by Gladwell to the difficult question on the Raven's test.
What is A?
The student documented as having high divergence.
Who is Poole?
The word that can best describe the Termite's careers once they reach adulthood.
What can be described as mid?
The age that Christopher Langan first started speaking as a child (much earlier than an average child).
What is six months old?
The average IQ of the children that Terman identified for his study.
What is >140?
The extent of the difference between the level of success of minority students vs white students after graduating from the University of Michigan.
What is little to none?
Requires the use of imagination to take your mind in as many different directions as possible.
What is divergence?
Using convergence testing alone to choose those in his elite group.
What was Terman's error?
The man who wrote the IQ test featuring the question "Teeth is to Hen as Nest is to ?"
Who is Ronald K. Hoeflin?
The reason that manhole covers are round.
What is circular so they don't fall in the hole?
Once a person reaches this IQ score, having additional IQ points does not mean they have any significant real-world advantage.
What is an IQ of around 120?
The number of uses that Poole thought of for a brick.
What is 5?
The extent to which intelligence and achievement are correlated.
What is correlated to a very small degree?
The reason why Langan describes having a high IQ as being a hindrance.
What is specialization?
The percentage of the population that was taken in as Termites.
What is roughly .6%?
The skills that Raven's Progressive Matrices test measures.
What are abstract reasoning skills?
The formula for a truly intelligent person includes:
What is both high convergence and divergence?
The collective number of Nobel Prizes that the Termites won.
What is zero? L
The purpose of the simile, "...marching out, one after another, polished and crisp, like soldiers on a parade ground." (pg73)
What is to describe the precision and smoothness with which Langan answered the game show questions?
The ways that Terman's ideas of success and intelligence influence scholastic institutions.
What are GT programs and college-entrance intelligence tests?
Describe the four IQ thresholds that Author Jensen describes in Bias in Mental Testing.
~50: can/cannot attend regular school
~75: can/cannot master elementary school
~105: can/cannot succeed in advanced high school courses
~115: can/cannot graduate four-year college with grades good enough to enter professional or graduate school
List as many uses for a chair as you can in 30 seconds
Hope you got a lot champ :)
The likelihood of one of you becoming as successful as a Termite.
What is relatively the same chance?