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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks to all the people kindly sharing their experiences in detail.

Over the years, I've met numerous people who were radically accelerated as children (3 or more grades) -- never asked their IQs, but I assume all are PG. Some of them are in academia, but most of them are out in the business world, in a broad variety of careers. Some are super-successful; others are leading quiet lives, making good enough money to enjoy their life but not stress themselves out. They are generally obviously intellectually very sharp, but otherwise indistinguishable from other people in similar jobs.

I think for many PG children, the goal of the childhood years should not be to maximize their academic achievement. Rather, it is to preserve their love of learning and feed their thirst for knowledge/skills, prevent them from spiraling into loneliness/depression/boredom, and set them up to be able to progress that into a good college education and intellectually stimulating career (or at least help them find something that pays well enough so they can pursue other passions that might not earn money). [/quote]

I don't believe you that you've met numerous people who were accelerated to that degree. For one, the vast majority of public schools will not allow that much grade skipping, so are you talking about people informally functioning at 3+ grades ahead? Because that's not *that* uncommon, given how slowly most public school curricula progress.

Also, even taking the lowest IQ that is considered PG (145, according to this site: http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/highly_profoundly.htm), you're talking about an IQ that is present in only 1 out of every 741 people--or 407 people, if you measure it on a 16 SD scale--(https://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/iqtable.aspx).

So you're telling me you've met, and know the background of, numerous people who:

1) were allowed to accelerate at 3+ grades ahead in school, when most private schools don't accelerate much at all until HS, and public schools almost always don't allow that much grade skipping, and

2) have IQs that are exceedingly rare.

I call BS. You are either just BS-ing us completely, or you are vastly overestimating the intellectual capacity of your social circle. [/quote]

I wouldn’t be so confident. If you have done a ph.d program in a math heavy subject, you would have meant them. I am not the op. I must have known at least 10 people who graduated from high school before 16 when I was in graduate school. [/quote]

Ok, maybe they're all in those programs. However:

- I graduated from a NE prep school typically ranked in the top 1 or 2 high schools in the country (one of Andover or Exeter)

- PhD program at a university with top 5 PhD programs in the hard sciences (I did a social sciences program, but I knew people in the hard sciences and math PhD programs)

- My workplace has some of the world's best data scientists.

Despite all of that, I have met fewer than 5 people I would confidently say are PG. Mostly everyone else is quite smart, but not to the level where I could imagine them needing to skip more than 3 grades. [/quote]

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