Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development by Hollingworth

Shortly after the year 1924 Leta S. Hollingworth prepared a manuscript on “Children above 180 IQ (Stanford-Binet)” in which she surveyed the material on the topic available up to that date and added accounts of five cases which she had studied individually. As the years went by she held back the manuscript from publication and one by one she found seven more cases to be included in her list. At the time of her death in 1939 she had begun to revise this manuscript, bringing the survey up to date and adding the new cases. The present book gives as much of this revision from her own hand as is available. The Preface and Chapters 1, 2, and 3 are as she wrote them. The accounts of the first five cases are given just as she originally wrote them up, but to them “editorial supplements” have been added in which an endeavor has been made to present for each case such data as have been found in her files, with little in the way of discussion or interpretation.