Just after the First World War, Lewis Terman, a young professor of psychology at Stanford University, 第一次世界大战结束不久,年轻的斯坦福大学心理学教授刘易斯.特曼(Lewis Terman) met a remarkable boy named Henry Cowell.
By the time Terman was finished, he had sorted through the records of some 250,000 elementary and high school students, 当所有测试结束时,特曼已经得到了250 000名中小学学生的测试结果, and identified 1,470 children whose IQ
Today, many of Terman's ideas remain central to the way we think about success. 现在,特曼的许多观点依旧左右着我们对成功的判断。 Schools have programs for the gifted. 学校存在很多专为天才设计的科目, Elite univ
What Hudson is saying is that IQ is a lot like height in basketball. 在哈德森看来,一个人的IQ就如篮球运动员的身高一样。 Does someone who is five foot six have a realistic chance of playing professional basketball? 一个身高
If you were to look at the list of where the last twenty-five Americans to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine got their undergraduate degree, 要是看看获得诺贝尔医学奖的25位美国人毕业的大学名单: you'll be surprised at what you'd
Let me give you another, perhaps more serious, example of the threshold effect in action. 让我们再来看另外一个正产生比较严重影响的例子。 The university of Michigan law School, like many elite US educational institutions, 密歇根
We knew that our minority students, a lot of them, were doing well, says Richard Lempert, one of the authors of the Michigan study. 我知道的我们那些少数族裔学生,他们大部分都干得很不错,密歇根该项计划负责人之一的
What the test giver is looking for is the number and the uniqueness of your responses. 测试者希望知道的是你回答的数量和答案的个人特点, And what the test is measuring isn't analytical intelligence but something profoundly diff
Brick. Building things, throwing. 砖块:用于建造物体;做投掷物用。 Blanket. Keeping warm, smothering fire, tying to tress and sleeping in (as a hammock), improvised stretcher. 毛毯:保暖,隔离空气灭火;绑在树上睡觉(
The majority had careers that could only be considered ordinary, 大部分人的生活只能说是平庸无奇, and a surprising number ended up with careers that even Terman considered failures. 很多人的事业令人惊讶地草草收场,就连
After protracted negotiations, it was agreed Robert will be put on probation.经过长期谈判,终于答应继续试用罗伯特。 Chris Langan's mother was from San Francisco and was estranged from her family. 克里斯.兰根的母亲出生于旧
To stick up for himself and his brothers, Chris started to lift weights. 为了支撑自己和弟弟们的生活,克里斯开始承担生活的重担。 One day, when Chris was fourteen, Jack Langan got rough with the boys, as he sometimes did, and
One of the most widely used intelligence tests is something called Raven's Progressive Matrices. 瑞文推理能力测验是目前使用最为普遍的智力测试。 It requires no language skills or specific body of acquired knowledge. It's a measu
By the time Gates dropped out of Harvard after his sophomore year to try his hand at his own software company, 当读大学二年级的盖茨从哈佛大学退学,决定腾出手来创办自己的软件公司的时候, he'd been programming nonst
In an average week in those years, I was spending more time in the Computer Center than in my classes. 那时候,我每周待在计算机中心的时间,远远超过我待在教室里面的时间。 All of us down their had this recurring nightma
Is the ten-thousand hour rule a general rule of success? 这是成功的常规定律? If we scratch below the surface of every great achiever, do we always find the equivalent of the Michigan Computer Center, 如果你能深入剖折各项伟大的成
And the bands will play all the time to catch the passing traffic. 为了吸引过往的人们,乐队的演出不能停下来, In an American red-light district, they will call it nonstop striptease. 就像美国红灯区的脱衣舞表演一样,
On their third trip. they played 48 times, for a total of 172 hours on stage. 第三次,他们表演了48场,演出的时间总共达到172个小时: The last two Hamburg gigs, in November and December of 1962, involved another 90 hours of perf
C-cubed eventually went bankrupt, so Gates and his friends began hanging around the computer center at the University of Washington. 但电脑中心公司最终破产,盖茨和他的同伴开始到华盛顿大学的计算机中心转悠。 Before l
Gates was now in his senior year, 此时,盖茨已经是高年级学生, and somehow he managed to convinced his teachers to let him decamp for Bonneville under the guise of an independent study project. 也不知道用了什么办法,他成功地
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