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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who cares how you calculate the number? We aren't talking about flyover America. Fairfax County is in the top 5 in the nation in terms of educational attainment and in terms of income.  Since SES and maternal education are the top predictors of academic success, I would hope there would be a ton of smart kids. Who cares if the AAP number is 14% or 20%?  
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I'm just trying to keep the facts straight.  Whether having 20% of the student body designated as Level IV and 25% receiving level IV services is a good thing or a bad thing is an entirely different debate.  [b]It's also a huge distortion to act as if 20% of the student population is within the top 2% intellectually.[/b]  I'll freely admit that my AAP child is a bright, motivated student, but isn't gifted under any strict definition.  That child seems to be very middle of the pack in AAP.  The only reason she "needs" AAP is that all of the other similarly bright, motivated, non-gifted children are also in AAP.  It's not necessarily a bad thing that AAP casts a very broad net and gives expanded curriculum to so many kids, but it should be acknowledged that it is a very broad net.  [/quote]

People keep saying this.  When so many families to DC for work, then it begins to seem as if high IQ were the norm.  Broadly speaking, it may be the "norm" in DC but it's not nationwide.  Why should it be surprising that 10-20% of the children in FFX would have an IQ that is in the top 2% nationwide?  Most posters on this forum, the AAP forum, went to a Gifted program when they were children, and they expect that their bright children will also go to a Gifted program, and generally they do.[/quote]

It might be surprising to people because IQ is not taught, there may be a hereditary aspect, but I know some really smart people with not so smart kids.  You can help a kid pass a test or improve an IQ score, but an IQ Test score of 150 in that situation is not the same as a 150 by someone that did not prep for an IQ test.  Also I know many Mensa members, high IQ often comes with its own set of problems, arrogance and disregard for the abilities of others (particularly if the Mensa member is inferior) are the most common I have seen.  Not all Mensa members are like that but I have seen far too many (yet still a minority) that are, and they are the reason I never took the test to join.  High IQ and smart are not the same thing.  A Mensa friend of mine recently explained it this way.

Intelligence = ability to learn something
Smart = ability to apply what you have learned in the real world
Common Sense = Ability to solve a problem you have never encountered before using other experiences

He postulated that they become less common as you go down the list.  He begrudgingly admitted that even more so for Mensa members, but he did say Mensa members are willing to learn new skills to be able to solve problems.[/quote]

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