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[quote=Anonymous]PP who has met numerous other PG people here.

To answer another poster's question, I skipped one grade, and then, a few years later, two more.

Three grades of acceleration (essentially skipping middle school) was enough for there to be real content I was learning every day in high school. My parents didn't care if I got good grades as long as I knew the material. (In other words they allowed me to ignore my homework as long as I got an A on the test.)

I actually had a great social life in high school, did a lot of extracurriculars, and learned an instrument to a level where I could have gone to Juilliard.

I attended CTD (Northwestern, much like CTY) during some summers and loved it there, but I'll say that I was an oddity even amongst the gifted kids there. Ironically, I didn't meet another kid like me, but I did meet one in a math class that came from that talent search. (He "only" skipped two grades, but he ended up being a brilliant quantitative trader in the early days of that, and I think he managed to retire by age 30. I forgot about him when I was thinking about other PG people I've met.)

I agree with the poster who noted that PG people aren't evenly distributed. And assortative mating means these days that PG people are much more likely to be able to meet and marry other PG people, thus significantly upping their likelihood of having PG kids.

After all, if you just look at Fairfax County AAP, a vastly higher percentage of the kids have IQs of 130 than would be expected by pure population size, right?[/quote]

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