Word: nicholai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nicholai has only begun to process the data from his massive six-year, unsponsored study. He has finished computer runs on five or six of 93 variables. More than one striking discovery has already come out of the project, which promises to increase in significance for Harvard undergraduates as he runs more variables...
...arriving at his correlation between intelligence and emotional illness, Dr. Nicholai used predicted rank list (prl) as his measure of intelligence. (The Admissions Office figures a prl for each entering student, taking into consideration his secondary school rank in class, the average of his College Board achievement scores, and his College Board verbal aptitude score...
...then checked his results by using the verbal aptitude score alone as his intelligence criterion. Some people consider it a better measure than prl, Dr. Nicholai said, because it does not take motivation into account...
...Nicholai has a hypothesis to explain his finding. He believes that the extremely intelligent person is liable to develop intellectually at the expense of other aspects of his personality. Such an individual derives all his satisfaction from his intellectual superiority...
...Nicholai's data, a high percentage of the psychiatric dropouts had a diagnosis of depression...