Originally Posted by BaseballDad
Originally Posted by herenow
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ETA: I think ordinary parents are too-optimistic identifiers, and highly gifted parents too-pessimistic if anything.

I completely agree with this..

Any speculation about why this is true, if it is?

I think it is because people tend to take themselves and their experiences as being the measure of normal. Add to that that people tend to marry and associate with others who are at their approximate intellectual level,and you have a situation where a solidly average parent will see a child who is 1 SD above the mean as truly exceptional, and an HG/PG parent will see a child 2 or 3 SD above the mean as fairly typical in development (well, right up until the child goes to school or is otherwise placed among truly typically developing age peers).