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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kids are really at 150-160, they would already know they are different from the other kids. You wouldn't need to tell them. You would facing a whole different set of academic and social issues that you're apparently unaware of. In your search for answers, you'd already be aware of Davidson's, because several teachers would have made you aware.[/quote]

New poster.  Really?  I didn't know I was different until I got my PG score in 7th grade.  How about you other people upthread?  Did you know you had the golden halo of gifted and were somehow more special than all the other kids before someone told you that you were profoundly gifted?  I knew I was good at school but that was it.  I think the gifted label causes problems (as another poster alluded to) because of the potential for work ethic problems, so my kids will not be told their scores and I will not be doing gymnastics to get them into a "special school".  Regular private works for us.[/quote]

I'm the PP with an IQ over 160 and I didn't think I was "different".  I knew I was bright but I went to school with quite a few bright kids, and quite a few who were more successful students than I was but I don't think I had a great work ethic.[/quote]

IQ scores were calculated differently back in the day as well; it was calculated by dividing the mental age by the chronological age, and values above 160 were uncommon but not exceptionally rare.  IQ's now days are done using a normal distribution of values, and scores that were in the 160+/- range on previous IQ tests would probably land in the 140 +/- range now.  The WISC test now has a ceiling of 160 unless special extended norms are used, and people who score above this are very rare.[/quote]

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