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[quote=Anonymous]This magical "gift" you keep referencing is what?  Can you define it?  Is this "gift" quantifiable and measurable?  Is "gift" an all or none entity that exists in realtime; or waxes and wanes and even disappears and reappears over time?

Can you quantify and measure (please name the instrument or tool you will use)  in NOVA 5 year olds which kids have "gifts" that will translate into a future NBA hall of famer, a Nobel Laureate in Medicine,  a future President of the USA, an acclaimed writer, the next Tiger Woods,  2400 on the SAT in the 10th grade, a world class pianist, a professional lacrosse player,  a world class mathematician for example?

You throw around the label gift and gifted for humans as if you know what this is, how to identify it and how to measure and quantify it?  Please advise the appropriate age to identify, quantify and measure this "gift"  --- at conception, in the womb, at birth, at 1 year of age, in K in Grade 9, in Grade 12,  in University, at age 35, when accepting the Nobel or Pulitzer prizes or the NBA ring?

You throw around the Cogat and NNAT and WISC as tools that measure this "gift"?  How do these tests in a 5-year-old identify NOVA kids with the "gift" for a Nobel Physics prize, the White House, the Pulitzer prize, the next Biil Gates, the Phi Beta Kappa, concert violinist, great public speaker?  What specific "gifts" do these tests identify in NOVA 5-year-olds? What metric do these tests use to quantify and label all these "gifted" NOVA kids?  How many gifted NOVA 5-year-olds are out there?  We must know this number as this is the most tested generation of the ages.  And many of these NOVA 5-year-olds with these specific, measurable and quatifiable "gifts" make it into Who's Who (become Nobel laureates, Presidents, Pulitzer Prize winners and NFL football players?  Does a super fast 40 yard dash in a 5-year qualify for an Olympic Gold in 16 years down the road.  Or an 8-yr old age group national champ predict the next Michael Phelps?

Michael Jordan had a tough time making his high school basketball team in the day.  He was certainly not the early annointed one.

It's easy to tell me from the retrospectocope (in hindsight) who has a gift after all the prizes and accolades are won?  But, can you tell me which 5-year-old in NOVA has a gift for anything damn thing but to eat, cry, poop and bedwet based on your definition of gift and how you measure and quantify the gift in NOVA 5-year-olds?

Kids keep on prepping.  You don't know when your number will be called and chance favors the prepared mind and body.

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