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    I think you're right, palodeagua (welcome, btw!) In fact, if you look at the source for the SBV column, it's Deborah Ruf's levels, with her Level 4 equated to PG. Now, quite apart from what you think of the Ruf levels (it seems that her level indicators and numbers are more based on her experience than on reviewable data, shall we say), she doesn't use terms like EG, PG, at least not in the referenced article, so I'm not sure who wrote that table that way and why. What she does say is that children at her Level 4 are found at the frequency of about 1 in 200, i.e. they are above the 99.5th percentile. That suggests that Level 4s are roughly 3 or more SDs from the mean, i.e. say 145+ (in fact, not 135+ as she says in the article). But, anyway, not anything like as rare as the other definitions of PG in that table.


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    From the same Hoagie's Page:

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    Most tests have subtests, and each subtest has a ceiling, sometimes the same as the other subtests, sometimes different, and these contribute to lowering the overall score if a child is not evenly or "globally" gifted. For example, the Wechsler intelligence tests were not designed to differentiate scores above 130 (WISC-R and WISC-III) or 145 (WISC-IV):

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    Sattler and Dumont continue to say that the WISC-IV is not a good measure for children scoring outside of 3 deviations from the mean. An average subtest score of 14 or 15 is 2 standard deviations outside the mean, an average subtest score of 16 or 17 is 3 standard deviations outside the mean. Sattler and Dumont do not discuss the use of the WISC-IV

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