An Opportunity for Empiricism

Howard Gardner, professor ofeducation and codirector ofProject Zero at Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts), is recipient ofa MacArthur Prize Fellowship (1981-1986), the Grawemeyer Award in Education (1990), an American Psychological Association (APA) William James Award, and an APA National Psychology Awardfor Excellence in the Media . Gardner is author ofCreating Minds : An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi ; Leading Minds ; and Frames of Mind and coauthor, with D . H. Feldman and M. Csikszentmihalyi, of Changing the World : A Framework for the Study of Creativity . 0 David Lubinski, associate professor ofpsychology, director ofthe Psychometrics and Applied Individual Differences Division, and codirector of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) at Iowa State University (Ames), is coeditor, with R . V . Dawis, ofAssessing Individual Differences in Human Behavior : New Methods, Concepts, and Findings and coauthor, with R . V. Dawis, ofthe chapter "Aptitudes, Skills, and Proficiencies" in M. D . Dunnette and L . Hough (Eds .) Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Vol. 3, 2nd ed .) . a Camilla P. Benbow, distinguished professor, chair ofpsychology, and codirector ofSMPY and ofthe Office of Precollegiate Programs for Talented and Gifted (OPPTAG) at Iowa State University, is a member ofthe Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars and coeditor, with J. C . Stanley, of Academic Precocity and, with D . Lubinski, of the forthcoming Intellectual Talent : Psychometric and Social Issues .