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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think, in general, kids are different now, however.  For goodness sakes, look at how high our kids in this area score on the CogAT compared to nationwide.  I grew up in this area, was in the "GT" program back then (when it was supposed to be so exclusive :roll: ) and think that overall kids are much brighter now.  Think of kindergarten alone - much more academic, full day, many kids are advanced readers, etc.[/quote]

Why do people equate early/advanced readers with intelligence- when reading ability, especially in the first half of ES,  is not highly correlated to intelligence?[/quote]

Dunno - I guess ask Davidson:  http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10162.aspx "What are early signs of extreme intelligence? 
Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in the very highest ranges of intelligence often demonstrate very specific characteristics. A recent developmental study of 241 profoundly gifted children between 160 and 237+ IQ (Stanford-Binet Form LM) discovered that:...The mean age at which the children sight-read an easy reader was before 4. (Rogers & Silverman, 1997)"

Or  http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt/reports/trifolds/a9403p.pdf  ".Exceptionally high verbal intelligence is neither necessary nor sufficient to make a
child become a precocious reader, [b]although highly intelligent children are more likely to begin reading early[/b]"

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