Originally Posted by Beckee
This sentence makes me raise an eyebrow:

With the SOI approach the near-gifted have a clear means of becoming gifted if they want to develop their near-gifted abilities to the gifted level.

If they're referring to the idea that IQ is trainable to a certain degree, and since the cut-off for the definition of gifted can be somewhat arbitrary, that they feel they can help people just below the cut-off reach slightly above it, then I have no problem with that statement.