> The article's refutation of these ideas is the King's College study that determined that "50% of the variance in intelligence is heritable." I can't read the

> The article's refutation of these ideas is the King's College study that determined that "50% of the variance in intelligence is heritable." I can't read the article because I've exceeded my limit, I guess, but how does this follow? For the purposes of a gifted program all that matters is that intelligence is real and measurable. It could be totally randomly distributed (ie not heritable) and it could still make sense to identify and specially educate smart kids.