Terry Tao about his own childhood as child prodigy (1985, at ten)

Re:Terry Tao about his own childhood as child prodigy (1985,... by nl on Monday September 21, 2009 @03:17AM (#834141)

Hmm. Reading the papers from that study group seems to prove me 100% wrong. I suspect my selective referencing skills need improving.

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Re:Terry Tao about his own childhood as child prodigy (1985,... by sireat on Monday September 21, 2009 @05:08AM (#834252)

Note: I read the abstract for the 35 year study and glanced over the paper.

The researchers findings seem to be that these prodigies are for most part well adjusted/succesful, but do not necessarily go/stay into math/science fields.

Are those the findings, or is there something more?

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Re:Terry Tao about his own childhood as child prodigy (1985,... by nl on Monday September 21, 2009 @08:53PM (#835970)

They split the prodigies into science/math people and humanities people. I skim read the paper, and it showed a correlation between the field they were talented in and achievement in that field.

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