{"id":55265,"date":"2020-12-21T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=55265"},"modified":"2020-12-20T13:18:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T21:18:56","slug":"from-iq-tests-and-sperm-banks-to-the-queens-gambit-a-history-of-gifted-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/from-iq-tests-and-sperm-banks-to-the-queens-gambit-a-history-of-gifted-children\/","title":{"rendered":"From IQ tests and sperm banks to The Queen\u2019s Gambit: a history of gifted children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55266\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/childatpiano.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/childatpiano.jpg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/childatpiano-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/childatpiano-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Netflix hit The Queen\u2019s Gambit, we see young orphan Beth Harmon discover her talent for competitive chess. During a game played in the orphanage basement, Harmon\u2019s chess tutor, the janitor, tells the nine-year-old: \u201cTo tell you the truth of it, child, you\u2019re astounding\u201d \u2013 contrasting her youth and naivety to her seemingly inherent gift.<\/p>\n<p>The series ends with Harmon as a young woman, competing in chess competitions at the highest level. The executive producer of the series, William Horberg, has said that they\u2019re unlikely to make a second series. \u201cMaybe we can just let the audience imagine what comes next,\u201d he told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.townandcountrymag.com\/leisure\/arts-and-culture\/a34398206\/the-queens-gambit-season-2\/\">Town and Country<\/a>\u00a0magazine.<\/p>\n<p>My\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.ox.ac.uk\/people\/dr-jennifer-crane\">research<\/a>\u00a0looks into the question of \u201cwhat next?\u201d for so-called child genuises like Beth Harmon, and how the \u201cgifted\u201d label affects their lives.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Growing up gifted<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Interest in measuring the intelligence of children grew during the 20th century. The first IQ tests were developed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/articles\/WtR31CUAAEhq9ZHV\">in the early 1900s<\/a>, looking to identify children in need of educational support. Later evaluations used IQ testing but also hormonal levels, patterns of sleep, metabolism, blood markers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ng.3869\">or genetics<\/a>\u00a0to try to understand and quantify \u201cintelligence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>All of these tests assume that we should try to assess intelligence at all, and do so in children from as young an age as possible \u2013 that we must identify our talented Beth Harmons. But should we really? And what happens to these genius children when they grow up?<\/p>\n<p>Historical archives can help answer this question, because we have been testing gifted children for so long. By the 1990s, in particular, newspapers and voluntary groups were obsessed with tracing and reporting on these children\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>One\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gale.com\/intl\/c\/daily-mail-historical-archive\">formerly gifted child told the Daily Mail in 1995<\/a>\u00a0about their experience. At primary school, the child would spend mornings \u201cmodel[ling] Plasticine like everybody else\u201d, he said. But in the afternoons he would receive special tuition from the headmistress in quadratic equations. For children like this, the \u201cgifted\u201d label was useful, enabling special provision, often informally or from voluntary groups, and new peer networks.<\/p>\n<p>While in The Queen\u2019s Gambit, Beth Harmon goes from a chess prodigy to excelling at the highest level as an adult, historically any \u201ctypical\u201d path for gifted children is far more mundane.<\/p>\n<p>Testimonies in historical newspapers and the archives of Britain\u2019s National Association for Gifted Children are replete with adults who had this diagnosis as children, used it to access new services, types of education, and leisure activities, and then went on to live ordinary, \u201cnormal\u201d lives.<\/p>\n<p>In 1991, one mother wrote to the National Association to emphasise how important this label had been within her family. She was herself a highly intelligent child, \u201ckeen to learn but not what they were teaching at school\u201d. She had consequently \u201cslipped through the net\u201d of education. She had failed the 11+ examination, left school with few qualifications, and had a career she found unrewarding.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, when she noticed that her son was also very able, she had him tested by an educational psychologist. Declared gifted, the family were able to find a public school where he excelled. The child had entered university and was \u201cthoroughly enjoying himself\u201d.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Problematic ideas<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Yet at its extreme, the obsession with identifying gifted children has veered into eugenics.<\/p>\n<p>In 1971,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/articles\/Wug6ByIAAEUwy-1k\">Robert Graham<\/a>\u00a0founded the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Genius-Factory-Curious-History-Nobel\/dp\/0812970527\">Repository of Germinal Choice<\/a>, informally called the \u201cNobel Prize sperm bank\u201d. Graham was a eugenicist, who sought to \u201cimprove\u201d the human population through breeding. His aim was to provide sperm from \u201cthe brightest men\u201d to women for free, as he was concerned that developments in medical science were \u201ckeeping more of the defective population alive than ever before\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Doron Blake was the second child of the 240 born from the repository. Blake\u2019s mother spoke to several journalists throughout his childhood, who duly reported on his extraordinary intellect, mathematical ability, and interest in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-1987-11-01-tm-17535-story.html\">building complex toys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When Blake reached 18 in 2001, he began to feature in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sn\/tvradio\/programmes\/horizon\/broadband\/tx\/spermbank\/doron\/index_textonly.shtml\">profiles and documentaries<\/a>\u00a0himself. Rather than trumpet his achievements, Blake used the media attention to critique the very idea of the gifted child, arguing that the label distorted public understanding of which human attributes were valuable. Blake emphasised that his IQ did not make him \u201cgood\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The thing I like best about myself is not that I\u2019m smart but that I care about people and try to make other people\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2001\/03\/the-nobel-sperm-bank-celebrity.html\">lives better<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blake argued that the gifted label was no route to life satisfaction \u2013 his IQ did not make him happy. These comments were similar to those from other formerly gifted children: one told the Daily Mail in 1981 that \u201cthere is more to life than studying\u201d and \u201cbeing gifted does not make you a person more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gale.com\/intl\/c\/daily-mail-historical-archive\">likely to succeed<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The social value placed on intelligence has had dangerous effects. Eugenics had a powerful influence in the early twentieth century in particular. In an American ruling of 1927, the US Supreme Court legislated that citizens with intellectual disabilities could\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-iq-test-wars-why-screening-for-intelligence-is-still-so-controversial-81428\">face sterilisation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These ideas continued into the mid-20th century:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/gp\/book\/9781137497659\">research has demonstrated<\/a>\u00a0that ideas of genius and human value underlay the charismatic leadership, oppression, and mass genocide of Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Even as recently as the late 20th century, IQ tests have continued to lead to deeply discriminatory and damaging effects. In a US case filed in 1971, courts in California conceded that IQ testing had been biased against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/education\/court-finds-i-q-tests-racially-biased-for-black-pupils-placement\/1984\/02\">black students<\/a>, leaving them overly represented in special education classes. This was likewise the case\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book\/9780520293854\/thinking-black\">in Britain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These histories are troublingly recent. We know that for many children historically, the label gifted has helped them to access new services and to live happier lives. Yet we also know that intelligence tests are biased towards groups who are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/001698628703100403\">already privileged<\/a>, disproportionately identifying white, middle-class boys as gifted. While all children need specialist support in education, the impulse to glorify the gifted may be best left in the past.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Author Bio:<\/strong> Jennifer Crane is a Research Fellow in the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Netflix hit The Queen\u2019s Gambit, we see young orphan Beth Harmon discover her talent for competitive chess. 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