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Why there’s no such thing as a gifted child
- deogeo 7y ago> While the jury is out on giftedness being innate and other factors potentially making the difference Countless studies showing the heritability of intelligence and behavioral traits means "the jury is still out", but a few outliers and the fact that practice also plays a part, merits an article title of "no such thing as a gifted child". The Guardian has such a fascinating approach to science!
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- Bostonian 7y agoThe SAT and other standardized tests can be used to identify students in middle and even elementary school who are prepared for college-level work. Julian Stanley started this with the Johns Hopkins Talent Search. Jonathan Wai has studied the careers of talent search participants. It's just not true that intelligence is uniformly distributed.
- icedchai 7y agoI took the SAT as a 7th grader, as part of the John Hopkins CTY program. This was back in 1989.