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[quote=Anonymous]PP here. If you think about the stats (that something like 10% of society is "gifted" for purposes of hitting iq 130 for school programs, and that 50% of kids hit their milestones on time or early)... then assume that say, half of kids are deemed to hit milestones "on time", so 25% hit them "early".... it's highly probable that a large number of kids identified as gifted also hit their milestones early. And also probable that another large number will not identify as gifted.

There's actually very limited research on what a gifted kid looks like in preschool or earlier.  You can google it, and you'll see some checklists. But then if you delve further into it, you'll see that those checklists merely are what people "think" gifted kids might look like at 1 year old (because 1 years olds doing these things look different and special compared to their peers).  But there is no research that shows that the kid who, say, counts to ten at 12 months measures gifted as an adult. There are a bunch of studies asking parents of gifted kids in hindsight to list the traits their kids had - but no surprise, the parents all remember their kids as little progidies. But I don't think there were control tests (parents of nongifted kids) also asked. My suspicion if you asked the non-gifted group, they would also attest that their kids were little geniuses.  There is only one good study I ever found about giftedness in early ages, where a gifted center gave questionnaires to ALL parents who brought in kids for iq tests below age 5 (if i recall). The parents all came to the center thinking their kids were gifted. Half or more didn't test gifted. The center asked all the parents about the qualities they thought their kids had that evidenced giftedness. The parents of gifted versus parents of non-gifted pretty much all identified teh same things: early speech, complex speech, early reading, etc etc.  There were a couple minor variations, but they were not quantifiable milestones (i think they were things like alertness, activity level, etc).  [/quote]

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