hollingworth's final study on gifted children was published after her death, by her husband in 1942. it was a longitudinal study of twelve children with iqs higher than 180. it began in 1916 after inspiration from her work with the binet tests. she witnessed a child score 187, which prompted her to seek out eleven other children with similar capabilities. the twenty three years following that initial inspiration were spent finding the children and attempting an in-depth study. fully aware that she would never live long enough to see all of the children into their adulthood, hollingworth meticulously attempted to build a framework upon which future research findings could be accomplished. she noted that individuals "who test above 180 iq (s-b)," (i.e., stanford-binet) "are characterized by a strong desire for personal privacy. they seldom volunteer information about themselves. they do not like to have attention being called to their families and homes." hollingworth was able to work past all of these concerns and conducted research that benefited science while maintaining participant privacy at the same time. she laid the foundations for future studies of gifted children with this work. the results of the study suggested that many exceptionally gifted children suffer adjustment problems due to two factors: inept treatment by adults and lack of intellectual challenge. adults would often ignore such children because they were thought to be self-sufficient. myths that exceptional children were clumsy, fragile and eccentric were dismissed by the findings as well.