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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is very difficult to suss out without a professional evaluating your specific kid.

I'll just give you my own experience:

Unlike PP's children, I was not reading Harry Potter-type books at 5/6 years old. I starting read by about 4.5, but it was simple books. That said, my parents got me tested for admission to a magnet kindergarten program; my IQ came out at 147.

I never had trouble in school, graduated from a top prep school with honors and from a top research university magna cum laude. Am I gifted? I suppose my IQ would suggest so, but I was certainly not the smartest kid in my high school (though it's an extremely selective high school). If my IQ is 147, [b]I would suspect I went to school with kids who have IQs in the 160s at least. 
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My 3 year old seems bright and inquisitive, but I'm really more concerned about her becoming a well-adjusted, compassionate and kind adult, than whether she is gifted or not. DH and I do not plan on getting her evaluated, unless it's mandated for a program we think she'd thrive in. [/quote]

That's really unlikely. Either you are underselling yourself (particularly common with women), or your IQ is very unbalanced, e.g. only moderately gifted in most areas but highly gifted in one area that does not come up often in daily life, like spacial cognition, for example. [/quote]

Yeah, it's hard to say, given that the only time my IQ was tested was when I was 4. I'm slightly better at humanities and social science than I am at math, but I still did well enough in all subjects in high school to graduate with honors (the only distinction my high school gives out).

My job involves writing and social science analysis; I think I excel at those areas.

In any case, I think this whole concept of declaring some kids "gifted" is ultimately harmful. We need to figure out how to differentiate academic instruction without slapping these labels onto kids. [/quote]

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