> Terman found his answers in his longitudinal study on gifted children called Genetic Studies of Genius which had five volumes The children in this study were called “Termites”. The volumes reviewed the follow-ups Terman did throughout their lives. The fifth volume was a 35 year follow-up...
A better book than any of the books from the Terman study about the Termites is Joel Shurkin's Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up (Boston: Little, Brown, 1992). (ISBN 978-0316788908)
Joel Shurkin worked for the Stanford News Service as a science writer, and was the first independent researcher to have access to the Terman Study files.
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