Originally Posted by madeinuk
Zen Scanner you missed my point entirely. My point is that the notion that gifted but slow processing subjects have inflated PRI scores because their very slowness gives them more time doesn't hold water. The block design section is timed so 'slowness' is penalized.

I did not. Perhaps you missed my second entry on the subject.
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Originally Posted by Zen Scanner
I think block design can be a bit of a wash because it is timed, but it also favors a more complex carefulness to prevent accidental mistakes.

My kid is on the other end of the perfectionism continuum, and wrecklessness hits hard on visual transfer tasks. Glancing at a 3 by 3 grid meaning to check position 2,2 and instead looking at position 1,2 is a problem.