Bright Children

gence test, are used in this study. Our problem is very well expressed in the question: Does the child of high intelligence possess physical development commensurate with his mental ability? The subjects used in this study were pupils from the Demonstration School of the George Peabody College for Teachers. Since the study was restricted to children of superior intelligence, the number was necessarily limited to forty-five. School grades four to eight, inclusive, were included in the study as follows: Thirteen from the eighth grade, eleven from the seventh, five from the sixth, ten from the fifth, and six from the fourth. The data resulting from the tests were handled separately for each grade. For convenience the children were given numbers from one to forty-five and ranked according to I. Q. within the several grades. Seventeen boys and twenty-eight girls were used in the study. The Stanford Revision of the Binet-Simon test was used as a