Trouble with talent?

Jim Stidgler, the UCLA psychologist, was fascinated by the fact that Asian students routinely did better academically at elementary math, so he set up an experiment. He gave the same math problem that had no solution to small groups of American kids and small groups of Japanese kids. The American kids tackled the problem, and gave up after trying only briefly. The Japanese stufdents, however, continued to try to find a solution to the problem. Stigler believes that t...