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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My spouse started playing around with the ideas that would eventually be his field for his engineering PhD in high school.  Did the research he did there lead directly to his thesis?  Not exactly, but he did start to develop the love for the subject and begin to think about the problem (material fatigue) back when he was a teen.

So no, it's not perfect but you can start building your basis as a kid.  My husband is the first person in his family to go to college so his parents definitely weren't doing the work for him.[/quote]

This is very different.  Your DH had a conception in high school.  And it takes years to develop those ideas and prepare himself for skills required in that field, then eventually he reduced it to practice in his PhD years.  [/quote]

Many adult scientists have an IQ of about 145 and are simply well-organized, bright people who learn easily.

The kinds of kids who typically win the Regeneron scholarships fair and square, without corrupt levels of parental boosting, have an IQ of about 160, could complete college-level workbooks when they were 10, were interested enough in science to get themselves the equivalent of a weak bachelor’s in science by the time they were 14, and were lucky enough to end up in great science programs at places like Stuyvesant or Thomas Jefferson that hooked them up with good research programs. They may not necessarily be any more successful than the IQ145 researchers at age 45, but they they may look a lot more advanced at age 18. [/quote]

At least some of the TJ students are not geniuses. They have just asked their dad's friends to get their name on the research. Everyone knows it's not their research except the STS people who look the other way. Otherwise they won't get the funding for their competitions and that means they won't have money for their salaries. Have you looked at the list recently? See what they're doing in 10 years.[/quote]

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