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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why Is OP getting flack for using the word "gifted"?
Did anyone read the other thread about making students gifted? Everyone is using that work, but OP is bashed for it.[/quote]
There is lots of gifted jealousy.[/quote]

Really? Did you read the post above from someone with a high IQ who thinks the concept is stupid? I'll second that. I have been tested as having a high IQ and promise I am not jealous of folks who have high IQs. Almost every aspect of the concept of giftedness is asinine. I think IQ tests aren't particularly reliable and are somewhat culturally sensitive. But even if they measure *something* perfectly, what they measure is at best one tiny aspect of what it means to be "smart." And the concept of being a "smart person," even if it could be tested reliably, is of minimal utility. It is much more accurate to say that people are smart at certain things. A high IQ lawyer can be incompetent at basic math. A high IQ doctor can suddenly sound like a moron when she talks about politics. And even if there were a clear such thing as a "gifted person," effort would still matter more, in the vast majority of situations, than intelligence. That's partially because intelligence itself is mostly learned intelligence; a teenager with a 180 IQ is less smart at being an economist than a 40 year old with a 120 IQ and a phd in economics. And its partially because effort simply has more to do with success than smarts. Finally, even if IQ were a totally reliable way of measuring intelligence, and intelligence regularly translated into success, it would still be better to focus on effort over intelligence, because: (a) effort can more readily be practiced; and (b) people who think they are smart make worse choices in the face of adversity than people who think they are hard workers.[/quote]

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