Average and superior children develop at different levels and grow increasingly dissimilar with age, with superior children showing adolescent mental acceleration about one year earlier¶

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q2 i? Mental growth curves of average and superior children diverge with age, and superior children show the adolescent acceleration about one year earlier than average children. → Bird T. Baldwin 1922

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Bird T. Baldwin 1922¶

Bird T. Baldwin. (1922). The Relation Between Mental and Physical Growth. The Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. XIII, No. 1. https://psycnet.apa.org/journals/edu/13/1/193

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Mean mental growth curves from repeated Stanford-Binet examinations of average and superior boys and girls, plotted to age 14. The author states "These superior and average children develop at different levels and grow increasingly dissimilar with age."

"These superior and average children develop at different levels and grow increasingly dissimilar with age. This divergence in growth curves of average and superior children has been assumed as probable, but has not here-to-fore been empirically demonstrated."

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