Originally Posted by Cricket2
See, and I don't view gifted as differing from highly intelligent in terms of a quantifiable thing.

The gifted/non-gifted classification is binary and thus less informative than an IQ. However, I do think defining intellectually gifted as IQ >= 130 is a reasonable definition. It's not worse than defining people age >= 18 as "adult" or age >= 65 as "old".

Originally Posted by Cricket2
I do suspect that the Title Nine list came from the place you mention -- higher income white families where all kids who perform above grade level are called gifted.

Although most such children will not be gifted, a much higher fraction of them will be "gifted" -- have IQ above 130 -- than will children from the inner cities.

Last edited by Bostonian; 04/23/11 06:17 PM. Reason: added a "not" in "will not be gifted"
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