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[quote=Anonymous]google : high verbal IQ/ low processing speed and read all the information and research posted by Davidson Young Gifted Center and others. Basically, the skinny on the WIPPSI and WISC is that, though the Verbal,Matrix reasoning,Perceptual reasoning are good indicators of giftedness, processing speed is the poorest measure( poorest indicator) at measuring giftedness to the point that it confounds the overall score. If a child tests more than 2 STD apart on any subset the results cannot be interpreted, and SHOULD NOT be averaged, which is what the test instructions say to do.

Also,I read that as the WISC is not a test specifically designed to identify giftedness, but rather to identify problems at the lower end of IQ scale, it is more appropriate to look at the score in context with someone who cannot follow instructions or is doing poorly in school, despite high IQ overall. If you look at scores below, you will see that the average person, with an average IQ has very little discrepancy between Verbal IQ and Performance. Gifted people, on the other hand, often have a wide variance. This is because they score significantly higher on other parts of the WISC, whereas average people do not.

Average scores                                  Gifted Scores

Verbal Comprehension 104                  Verbal Comprehension 145

Processing speed 100                          Processing speed 100

What you will never see is this: Verbal comprehension: 98 / processing speed 145[/quote]

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