The tradition of achievement among Jews is high, says The Lancet, quoting the presidential address of Prof. L. M. Terman to the Pacific division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Prof. Terman in 1922 selected a band of more than 1,300 unusually gifted children and 16 years later made a further scrutiny to discover how far their promise had borne fruit. He divided the subjects of his research in 1936 into three classes, A, B and C– A being the most successful fourth, B the middle half , and C the least successful fourth. He found three times as many Jews in the A group as in the C.
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