Originally Posted by DeHe
There is an article somewhere on Hoagies that I read when investigating what we saw with DS several years ago that says parents are actually very good predictors of giftedness but perhaps that is at the more extreme ranges rather than normal levels of gifted?

I think there's no contradiction in parents having a very good idea of their child's abilities, but not be able to convert this to a score or percentile ranking, because they don't have a good handle on what the general population is like.