Citations are a measure of the influence and impact of research. They are imperfect metric, but the advantage they have is that they are objective. If someone cites my article (even unfavorably), then they find it worth discussing. In academia, researchers are nearly obsessed with their citations. Google Scholar keeps track of them automatically, and…
This weekend, I was searching online governmental archives for historic photos to use in my upcoming book about intelligence. Here is a photo taken in 1917 or 1918 at Camp Meade, Maryland, that didn’t make the cut to be included in the section (4 paragraphs) about the Army Alpha and Army Beta. I had seen…
A few years ago, my colleagues Matthew T. McBee, Scott J. Peters, and Craig Waterman published what I think is one of the most important articles in the past 10 years in gifted education. In it, they examined the effect of using different rules to combine multiple scores into one dichotomous decision to admit or…
