Preliminary Report on a Gifted Juvenile Author

Abstract

This is a report of Betty Ford who six weeks before her eighth birthday tested 14-10 by the Stanford revision, I.Q. 188. By a non-verbal scale the I.Q. was 175. Her vocabulary was approximately 13,000 words, not far from the median for Stanford University Freshmen. On the Trabue Completion Tests B and C her score (175) equalled the median for third or fourth year high-school pupils. She is at her best in vocabulary, information, language, completion and memory and at her worst in tests involving arithmetical processes. When 8 years old she had read approximately 700 books, including many works by Shakespeare, Burns, Longfellow, Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, Kipling, and George Eliot. By the age of eight Betty had written more than 100 poems and more than 75 stories. Except for slight myopia Betty has no physical defects. She sleeps ten to eleven hours a day. Her ambition is to be a physician and a writer. From Psych Bulletin 18:12:00708. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)