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[quote=Anonymous]I'm catching up after an absence, and I'm amazed by the civil tone and the fact that new info and ideas continue to be added. Here are my thoughts, YMMV.

1.  Some posters seem to have agreed that some part of IQ is innate.  Whether this takes the form of a starting floor, or of an ultimate ceiling on IQ, isn't clear.  But I'm not sure we know this yet.  Sure, there are people with LDs or executive function problems, but that's not what we're talking about here.  As one poster said better than me, IQ is a construct, moreover by the time it stabilizes (about age 8), kids have been exposed to a whole lot of environmental factors.

2.  The idea that IQ is innate is contradicted by the idea that SES influences IQ, which most here seem to agree about.

3.  As a consequence,  I'm uneasy about statements like one PP made, to paraphrase, that "it's a tragedy that we don't support gifted kids with lots of federal/state money, because they are our future leaders.". This sounds a bit like creating an entitlement for kids who already come from privileged backgrounds (given that everybody seems to agree there is a connection between IQ, SES and enriched environments).  Some of you step up to this problem by saying we need to help the gifted at all SES levels, ie at inner city schools.  But if you're coming from a position that IQ is innate, then you can justify diverting money  away from that low-SES kid who at age 8 measured average, when in fact what you're measuring is the impact of that kid's environment on him.

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