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In 1921 Terman began a project aimed at disposing of common beliefs and stereotypes about intellectually gifted individuals. He was trying to prove that gifted children would become mad and were not prone to illness and were not skinny weak beings. He took a group of gifted California children and tested them to insure a high score on the IQ test. After sifting through about 250,000 possible candidates, Terman chose 1528 children for the experiment. The experiment was slated to be a longitudinal study. Longitudinal means a group is followed over a long period of time. The first thing mentioned in they paper was the large and obviously low representation of blacks, Asians, Latinos and females in the study. Because of the low numbers other questions arose. First was there ant bias, were the taught the same. Second were these groups not selected by teachers because of race.
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