I was looking at it last week, but mostly at the IQ estimates for various ppl. Is it worth going deeper on? Does it have discussions of patterns in their environments?
I mean, that’s pretty much what Cox is doing starting pg165*, or you could skip to pg216, and the case studies would surely provide a lot of examples for you. I’d also suggest Anne Roe because your samples won’t overlap with hers and she was very interested in any childhood antecedents of world-class researchers.
* Worth remembering that the ‘genetic’ in Genetic Studies of Genius doesn’t mean ‘genes’ but ‘genesis’, as in, ‘origin’, both environmental and genetic. (Indeed, from a behavioral genetics point of view, Cox & the Terman Study are largely useless.)
Have you looked at Cox: https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/1926-cox-theearlymentaltraitsof300geniuses.pdf ?
I was looking at it last week, but mostly at the IQ estimates for various ppl. Is it worth going deeper on? Does it have discussions of patterns in their environments?
I mean, that’s pretty much what Cox is doing starting pg165*, or you could skip to pg216, and the case studies would surely provide a lot of examples for you. I’d also suggest Anne Roe because your samples won’t overlap with hers and she was very interested in any childhood antecedents of world-class researchers.
* Worth remembering that the ‘genetic’ in Genetic Studies of Genius doesn’t mean ‘genes’ but ‘genesis’, as in, ‘origin’, both environmental and genetic. (Indeed, from a behavioral genetics point of view, Cox & the Terman Study are largely useless.)