Originally Posted by it_is_2day
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Yes, if gifted are .1% (1%, 2%, 5%, 10%) there would statistically need to be a population of 2000 (200, 100, 40, 20) in your child's age and/or grade and/or cluster to find a second child of your child's similar relative ability.



7,9,5,7,5,9,11,5,6,5,6,13,5,4,10,7,2,5,6,6,11,6,5,8,
6,4,9,11,4,11,4,6,5,6,7,5,4,7,5,4,7,4,8,6,4,5,6,11,14,7

If one used any global norm it would be very difficult for any small class to have a set IQ limit for entry due to the randomness of rare events. I ran a Monte Carlo 50 iterations of 6000 people to see a distribution how many within the population would score above 99.9% level on something. So, in these hypothetic 50 populations of 6000. A cases with as few as 2 occurred, and a case as high as 14 occurred. This simple analysis shows that there are some serious forecasting difficulties planning for highly gifted individuals. Although most populations you get the 4,5,6,7, or 8 that one would expect. A school would also have to plan for exceptional boom years and bust years.

This is a model of any event that is expected to occur at a rate of 1 in 1000.

Oh, and yes I would love to send my daughter to a school to learn to host parties, weddings and the like.

The problem with your analysis is that it's not random. Higher IQ parents will tend to cluster and bring their kids with them. Even brilliant ne'er-do-wells like myself who'd otherwise be living hand to mouth are pulled into the cluster by our spouse choice.

Originally Posted by Mahagogo5
Originally Posted by puffin
I'm sorry I had to come back. Every time I see your thread I think is she talking about a school for kids who want to enter Junior Master Chef. Must be a language difference thing.
me too...

In starting to think there is little point looking for specific GT schools for kids with a high LOG as they seem to just cater to mod gifted and dd is unlikely to find a peer anyway. Very hard to know what to do.

Make your plans but he prepared to change if a better option comes up. I changed school plans 5 times in the last 2 years. Dd starts in May and I'm still second guessing.

Depends on the school. You want flexible, a school that doesn't claim to have all the answers and so can accommodate variability. By only having gifted they at least reduce the variability, creating a cluster and increasing the odds of your kid not being the smartest one in the room.

Last edited by Tallulah; 03/10/15 10:34 AM.