Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Age or Ability Specific Forums Pre-school Does my child sound potentially gifted?

Yes. And Absurdities, which is the nonverbal knowledge subtest, is heavily culture/experience dependent.

I've also had personal communications from Dr. Nancy Robinson, who was a consultant on the SBV, in addition to being one of the seminal researchers in gifted ed and radical acceleration, expressing her disappointment with the end product of the SBV development process. Especially the Absurdities subtest. I think the Robinson Center still uses/accepts it, but it didn't live up to the design intent.