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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes siblings can have different scores.  Yes it may be variation in testing days, perhaps even differences in test morning between the WPPSI III & IV (depending on which test your kids took.) Yes [b]we all sometimes come out of the wrong side[/b] of arbitrary decision lines.
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Who says it's the wrong side?    An IQ test measures one attribute, while many attributes go into living a happy and successful life.

And differences in intelligence of siblings may be just that, differences in intelligence -- all this testing day differences, morning vs. afternoon nonsense just feeds the erroneous assumption that kids from the same family are of equal or similar IQ, when research shows this isn't true.   What is this freaking fixation on test scores?   [/quote]

i'm the PP.  The arbitrary decision line in this case being the fixed IQ point for the inclusion program that OP thinks would benefit her child.  The '140 FSIQ' cutoff for that purpose is arbitrary, and in this case the 'wrong' side is the score that doesn't give you a choice.

Personally I think the whole current use of scores is bogus, and I say this as a parent whose kids have scored from relatively well to very well.  I also think they're used for all the wrong reasons.  We just applied for our youngest and there were items in her scores that I'd be interested in looking into further to see if I could get more insight into how she thinks and learns. But since we had the test as part of an application process we don't get enough of the raw information to do that - just some rolled up numbers that confirm our general sense of our child's relative aptitude, but don't really give us any insight.  So we give kids these tests and use them for application processes (not really appropriate), but don't use them for what they actually COULD help us with, which is more information on how a particular child best learns or needs help.  It's really a pity.[/quote]

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