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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know this focus on &quot;natural ability&quot; is so weird.  How can you really even define it?  We know that we are such a complex combination of our genetics and our envioronment.

Say you have a kid that scores a 135 on the cogat without any prepping.  He is born into a stable family that emphasizes school success and has provided an enriched environment during his infancy, toddlerhood, preschool and early grade school years.

Let us now take the same kid but change the circumstances.  Let us keep his genetics and upbringing constant but say that his dad gave him a workbook with sample cogat questions a week or two before the test to familiarize him with the type of questions, and the kid gets a 140.

Now take the same kid but change his life history.  Suppose his family fell on hard times after his birth and he grew up in a higher stress environment.  Family was too stressed to do &quot;enrichment&quot; stuff and school and learning are pretty low on his list of priorities.  He takes the cogat and scores a 120.

What is this child's &quot;natural ability&quot; score?  Should the first kid be defined as &quot;gifted&quot; but the second have an asterisk next to his gifted designation?  Should the third child automatically be disqualified from the program even if the classroom teacher can see his potental?

I really do like Ffx county 's whole child evaluation methodology because intelligence is not a simple number and assessing it isn't easy.

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very intelligent post - there are very few controlled studies on twins who have same genetics and are matched or crossed-over to tease out upbringing or environmental factors - the idea that environment doesnt affect MEASURED aptitude is a mirage --&gt; hence effectiveness of prep

BUT then the you are choosing &quot;prep&quot; as the main environmental driver od success - so you and your children have to be happy/comfortable with this strategy throughout assuming aap doesnt provide all the needed environmental backup itself once you are in the program - so that's where the &quot;culture&quot; issue plays a factor - you need to feel it is natural to &quot;keep doing prep&quot; as a strategy - many cultures are totally fine with approachwhile other families would feel this is &quot;faking it&quot; throughout their education ' there is no right/wrong here [/quote]

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