Originally Posted by 1111
IQ set apart. The most remarkable thing with my son is his EXTREME DRIVE TO LEARN! It is INSANE really. He will not stop! All self driven.

I think this and the capacity to focus is far more important that any score at 4. A child very driven to learn tends to learn and so becomes more unusual over time.

I don't think the Flynn effect is required to explain why norms from 1972 are no longer relevant. The scores produced are compared to children in the 1970s, but they are being used to describe a child in 2012 who grew up in a drastically different world. There are vast differences in culture, in exposure, in TV access and cable programming, in how preschool is the new K, etc. It's not valid to compare what a child knows in 2012 to what a child knew in 1972 and that's what the score will do.