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"The Salem Witch Trials" is a book that delves into one of the darkest chapters in colonial America's history. The protagonist of this historical account, Abigail, plays a central role in the story as a prominent accuser during the witch trials. The book sheds light on the hysteria and cultural climate that led to the series of witchcraft trials in the late 17th century in Salem, Massachusetts. Abigail, a young girl who becomes infatuated with a married man named John Proctor, is portrayed as manipulative and vindictive, using the witchcraft accusations as a means to seek revenge against those who have wronged her. The book explores the motivations and psychological complexities of the characters involved, examining the impact of fear, jealousy, and personal vendettas that contributed to the escalation of the trials. Through Abigail's character, the book raises questions about power dynamics, the influence of individuals in mass hysteria, and the role of women in Puritan society.

Intelligence tests are marked “on a curve”, meaning that the results are transformed into a bell curve: what matters is how you do compared with others who take them. By definition, most scores bunch in the middle: the average result in a cohort becomes an intelligence quotient (IQ) of 100; the middle two-thirds of scores become IQs of 85 to 115. The outliers are few. About two people in 100 have IQs below 70, and another two have IQs above 130. By the time you get 45 points away from the average of 100 in either direction, you’re down to about one person in 1000. But since only a small percentage of any population takes IQ tests, identifying very exceptional children is hard. Most schools have none.

By definition, most scores bunch in the middle the average result in a cohort becomes an intelligence quotient IQ of 100; the middle two-thirds of scores become IQs of 85 to 115. But Lyn Kendall, a consultant on gifted children at Mensa who was herself a gifted child in a working-class family insists that reading Nietzsche to your five-year-old, or forcing them to do three hours of extra homework, cannot make a genius.

Through Abigail's character, the book raises questions about power dynamics, the influence of individuals in mass hysteria, and the role of women in Puritan society. "The Salem Witch Trials" provides readers with a chilling portrayal of the human capacity for cruelty, ignorance, and the devastating consequences of unchecked accusations and paranoia..

The curse of being a child genius

Gifted children are viewed with awe and assumed to be guaranteed prosperity and success, but they have a dark side - and do not necessarily shine as adults.

Tom remembers the day he decided he wanted to be a theoretical astrophysicist. He was deep into research about black holes, and had amassed a box of papers on his theories. In one he speculated about the relationship between black holes and white holes, hypothetical celestial objects that emit colossal amounts of energy. Black holes, he thought, must be linked across space-time with white holes. “I put them together and I thought, oh wow, that works! That’s when I knew I wanted to do this as a job.” Tom didn’t know enough maths to prove his theory, but he had time to learn. He was only five.

Tom is now 11. At home, his favourite way to relax is to devise maths exam papers complete with marking sheets. Last year for Christmas he asked his parents for the £125 ($230) registration fee to sit maths GCSE, an exam most children in Britain take at 16. He is now working towards his maths A-level. Tom is an only child, and at first Chrissie, his mother, thought his love of numbers was normal. Gradually she realised it wasn’t. She would take him to lectures about dark matter at the Royal Observatory in London and notice that there were no other children there. His teacher reported that instead of playing outside with other kids at breaks, he wanted to stay indoors and do sums.

Reading Nietzsche to your five-year-old cannot “make” a genius. Michael Clayton-Jones

One day his parents took him to Milton Keynes to have his intelligence assessed by an organisation called Potential Plus, formerly the National Association for Gifted Children. “We told him it was a day of puzzles,” Chrissie says. “It was my dream world,” Tom says. “Half a day of tests!” His mother waited while he applied his mind to solving problems. When they were shown the results, Tom’s intelligence put him in the top 0.1 per cent in Britain.

Precocious children are often dismissed as the product of pushy, middle-class parents. Nurture and environment clearly do play an important role in any child’s intellectual development. Talk to your child about politics over the dinner table and he is likely to develop confident opinions about the way the world should be run. Suggest that your toddler think of slices of cake in terms of angles and she may well display an early aptitude for mathematics. Practice can make perfect. The child with a gift for playing the piano who practises five hours a day is more likely to end up performing at Carnegie Hall than the equally gifted one who plays for just 20 minutes a week.

But children like Tom are different. He was brought up in an underprivileged part of south London: 97 per cent of pupils at his first school didn’t speak English as a first language. When it comes to numbers – or his other passions such as Latin and astrophysics – Tom’s parents have little idea what he’s talking about. His genius is not of their engineering.

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