Outliers Summary

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"