...basically it seems like the WISC-IV results say he has no common sense or social skills...and nothing could be further from the truth about this kid. Maybe I will never understand all this... It's frustrating.
FWIW, my one kiddo who I mentioned earlier also had a much lower comprehension score on VCI (her split was something like 75th percentile for comp and 99th+ for the other two VCI portions) and she is also highly socially aware with great social skills. Years after the fact, in a discussion with her, she relayed something about that test that led me to believe that she responded in ways that indicated selfishness or social deviance not b/c she didn't know what was correct socially but b/c she didn't understand that she was supposed to answer what one
should do rather than what would most benefit her (i.e. stealing would benefit her, but wouldn't be what you should do, but she answered in ways that were solely to her benefit even if they involved theft). I
hope that she wouldn't actually put anything of that sort into action!
Like Dottie, I'm not sure that I put as much stock into comprehension as a raw test of giftedness. The gifted development center has the following chart on their webpage as to the correlation of each of the WISC-IV subtests with "g" (i.e. giftedness or raw ability):
Good Measures of g
Arithmetic .768
Vocabulary .751
Information .748
Similarities .733
Fair Measures of g
Matrix Reasoning .687
Block Design .672
Word Reasoning .648
Comprehension .646
Letter-Number Seq. .621
Picture Completion .616
Picture Concepts .582
Symbol Search .568
Digit Span .525
Poor Measure of g
Coding .454
Poorest Measure of g
Cancellation .209
(Keith, Fine, Taub, Reynolds, & Kranzler, 2004)
