Outliers Summary
Essay by people • April 23, 2012 • Essay • 635 Words (3 Pages) • 1,758 Views
deals with a group of people called "genius" and that
how their approach to life and its opportunities is different than others. The research is
mainly focusing on a psychologist Mr. Terman's 1930's focus on a specific group of kids
excelling at Elementary school level. This Group was separated from the rest of grade
level kids ,subjected to not twice but, thrice testing at different subject levels ,to
prove that they was better than the others. In the following years ,a quantitative
research method was followed to see how many of them excelled at different
Educational and job levels(Like becoming Judges,Lawyers,Doctors,PhD etc).Books were
written on this specific group of genius people. But years into the research it was
proved that about two of the declared "Nobel Prize Winners" were left out from this
specific research(just because they couldn't make it to the set testing standards.
Anyways this lead to a loop hole in this specific research methodology that proved wrong
after so many years .....(but,helped in a way that now-a-days "Equal opportunity" is given
to all the students until second grade level,in most of the school across the
nation....when they are subjected to different kinds of reading and Maths equivalency
tests...as here in NJ there's NJAsk, Otis Lennon and Terra-Nova ,and based on
those /Or / on basis of different tests ,in nationwide schools,the students are placed
in a "In Class" Group which has quite a few activities in reading and Maths for a higher
level than the rest of class).And it has also has helped many higher level colleges and
Universities, like University of Michigan etc. to eliminate the need for I.Q. Tests to
differentiate one group from the other. That made the kids from lower educational
and economic backgrounds a chance to excel along with the others( later on we will see
the same phenomenon repeating itself in "Marita's Bargain"
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