Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion Will she continue being this far ahead?

Has anyone else seen this chart? It certainly paints the picture zhian described. It gives me chills, and not in a good way. (FWIW, I see no reason it would be terribly accurate, so I assume it isn't, but that doesn't stop me from worrying about it.)

Mmm. And since it's based on ratio IQs, which are higher for HG+ children than the SD-based IQs we have now, parents of HG+ children should be even more chilled by this than they will be if they just read off using a modern IQ...

Does anyone know if this is a reliable source?

That chart did not seem that far off to me. Expecially considering DS's achievement scores. I think if my son were given the opportunitity and had the right situation he could go ahead 3yrs academically after filling in his educational holes. It's so many other things like sports, social, handwriting, and adding 30 mins of Homework that are still a concern.

KatelynsMom- not at all I don't know what we would do without workbooks here....especialy now that it is so cold and we cant go outside...DD hads to constanty be doing something and it helps take up the day thank goodness, that and puzzles, and blocks, and dinosaures LOL

Zhian- I really like the train analogy. I definitly see that with DD...she does seem to just continue getting further ahead. Everytime I get something that I think will chalange her, she seems to have skipped ahead again and it doesn't.


That chart is very interesting. ....and scary.... I don't know what DD's IQ is, but it definitly shows how the progression can be.

I guess I am definitly now freaked out. LOL.....deep breaths LOL

There's no question of the chart being "reliable"; it's not a prediction, it's a definition. It's just illustrating the principle of IQ, which is IQ = mental age / chronological age * 100. If you're 4 years old and function as an average 6-year-old, you have an IQ of 150. Therefore, since IQ doesn't change, you're going to have a mental age of 9 when you reach the age of 6. Because this definition becomes useless once you reach "mental adulthood", IQ tests on adults are always calculated based on a chronological age of 16. Yep, it's the only statistic in the world that's made for kids! I always thought that was kind of cool.

Well, yeah, but there remains the question of whether that particular definition of IQ reliably reflects the changing abilities of most or all kids. And, though IQ is not meant to change, kids often get different scores at different ages--and I don't think that all of that is due to test error. Some of it is surely due to uneven development.