> "The results were staggering; the more prevalent the idea, in any academic field, the fewer women and people of color participating in that field. This outcom

> "The results were staggering; the more prevalent the idea, in any academic field, the fewer women and people of color participating in that field. This outcome held across all thirty subjects in the study. More mathematics professors believed that students needed a gift than any other professor of STEAM content." Wait, the finest minds and educators in their respective fields are providing observational data that gifts are a real phenomenon, literally contradicting "reject ideas of natural gifts and talents". This is tremendous news that should have been a clarion call to seek out and elevate the gifted and invest every possible effort to nurture their gifts. Yet the conclusion is somehow the exact opposite: that "gifts" are a falsehood used to malignly, even if unconsciously and unintentionally, dissuade people. How is this possible?