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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As usual people are confusing gifted (hate that word) with prodigy. Gifted, now called more appropriately (AAP academic!) is generally IQ 115-130. These kids find the regular schoolwork easy and are often the children of UMC professionals. There are a lot of these kids in DCUM.

Prodigy, IQ 140-200 are exceptional and much rarer.  They have different needs but not usually well addressed in a public school because they are very rare. [/quote]

As usual...no. Gifted is an IQ above 130. Profoundly gifted is over 145. Neither is prodigy. A prodigy is someone who as a young child performs a certain thing at an adult level.

Btw the IQ tests used on kids don’t go up to 200 and haven’t in years. The WISC goes up to about 155 I believe.

A 130 IQ is 2 in 100. Hardly amazing. A 145 IQ is 1 in a 1000. 115 is above average. [/quote]

So confident!  Gifted is often considered above 120.  Some schools choose 120 for a cutoff, others choose 130.  No, those aren't prodigies. [/quote]

A school district can use whatever cutoff they want. If you believe the top 10% (120 is 91% percentile) of the population is gifted that’s your opinion. You are entitled that. But the vast majority of psychologists will tell you they use 2 standard deviations o determine that cutoff.

But I’m the pp who thinks IQ tests are just tests. You do well on the test it proves you can do well on that test.

Please just look up the definition of a prodigy for yourself. [/quote]

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