An article by Lynne Azpeitia, M.A. and Mary Rocamora, M.A. – published in Mensa Bulletin, November 1994 (Full text on Lynne Azpeitia’s website) Gifted individuals face many challenges. One of them may be in getting correctly identified by psychotherapists and […]
Richard Florida has some years ago explained how the creative class is now rising, since the world is so in need of innovation. He estimates that 30% of the population is creative. In the meantime, the gifted population whose main […]
Googleizing «handicapped gifted» or « gifted and handicapped » in Frenh gave nothing excepted that being gifted is a handicap (first 5 pages at least). On English speaking websites, giftedness is not considered as a handicap. And many websites gave information and […]
In 1999, Dunning et Krüger could scientifically prove that uncompetents were not only ignorant of being uncompetent, they also considered themselves as having competences. The study (“How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments“) was run via […]
An article in a french newspaper (“Le Figaro”) highlights the increasing sensitivity of companies to good spelling. A spelling evaluation software is now on sale for them. I’ve always been excellent at good spelling (at least in french). And as […]