Hi All,
I've been frantically busy the last three months, so I'm sorry to say that I haven't been contributing at all. But I've still been lurking a bit. Now with a little extra time I wonder if I could get some feedback from the collective wisdom of the board.
As DS4 approaches 4.5, we're starting to think a bit more about evaluation issues. Mainly we're interested in having good information on the basis of which to make decisions about his education. To some extent too, though, I think we just want to know what kind of situation we're dealing with.
That said, I find myself incredibly ambivalent about the idea of IQ testing, and I wonder whether anyone else has felt like this too. There are lots of aspects to my ambivalence, but one main one comes from imagining how I will respond when we get the results. I strongly suspect that if the results coincide what I already think, then I'll take them as confirmation of my gut instinct. But if they come back lower than I expect then I don't imagine I'll take that as disconfirmation of my gut instinct. Instead, I imagine I'll start looking for reasons that the test might not have reflected DS's real abilities. This seems like a weird asymmetry - a kind of heads I win, tails the game was unfair kind of issue. It makes me wonder what I want the results for in the first place.
Has anyone else had this worry?
BB
