AP+Ch.8

**Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell Link to Amazon's reviews of the book as well as a multimedia interview with the author explaining what his book is about. []

The chapter chosen to begin our look at intelligence, in psychological terms, is only part of the story. As you can tell from the title of the chapter, "The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 1," it is the first of a two-chapter in-depth look at genius. The first chapter was chosen because Gladwell focuses on what intelligence actually is, defined by psychologists, and uses notable research about intelligence to weave the outlier story. Thus before you begin reading this chapter please do the following:**
 * Think/answer this question: Do you believe IQ is linked to achievement and success in academics, work, relationships? Why do you think this way?
 * While reading, you MUST, MUST, MUST read the footnotes of the chapter. The footnotes in this book are NOT GIBBERISH!!! They offer essential detail and depth for better understanding.
 * The following is a list of important topics stated in the chapter:
 * Documentary by Errol Morris: []
 * Ronald K. Hoeflin- Super IQ test: [| http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/]
 * Lewis Terman's Termites:[| http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2000/julaug/articles/terman.html]
 * Barry Schwartz's idea about admissions in ivy league schools?
 * Imagination and IQ: Liam Hudson's Test of Words: [|http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a718868940&db=all]
 * Does IQ have a threshold?

**This is a three part assignment 1. Read the chapter and think about about Gladwell's points. Do you agree/disagree? 2. In-class essay on, January 5, 2010. 3. Class discussion on January 8, 2010.**