(08-02-2020, 04:50 PM)p_rushing Wrote:

(08-02-2020, 04:00 PM)mikesez Wrote: They tested me for gifted right at the beginning of first grade, and I "passed". They told me it was an IQ test, and they told me that passing it indicated an IQ of at least 120.
Later, I found out that they don't screen everyone, and my parents didn't want me screened. The teacher had asked them to screen me. She saw an opportunity to get me out of her classroom one day a week and she took it.

The general observation that people with high IQ lack  "common sense" is not quite true. "Common sense" usually means a social consensus that people don't want to waste time arguing about. Most people pick "common sense" up from their parents and other elders without much deliberate effort. The people who do not pick these things up at all are not necessarily more or less intelligent than anybody else, they just lack a certain type of social intelligence.  There are some highly intelligent people that have simply missed the cues of common sense and other highly intelligent people who understand common sense perfectly, but nonetheless want to change society by questioning it.

Generally gifted program is 130, unless they have changed it. I think some poor kids can get in with a lower score. As it is not all IQ, there are some interviews/observations, you can be allowed in on a judgment call but you have to be very close to 130.

The higher the IQ, the worse off you will be after a certain point. Over 160 and you are going to start having problems in the real world. IQ doesn't mean you will be successful as you have to be motivated to succeed at anything. That is one of the challenges for gifted kids in school. People with high IQs work in all different lines of work. Look at Mensa, even though I would never join, there are all different types of people.

I might be misremembering. This was Jacksonville in the late '80s and early '90s. They might have told me 130 and I might be remembering it as 120... Or maybe they really told me I was somewhere north of 120, and they decided to make an exception for me because I clearly behaved better in the smaller gifted classroom. Even in my young age I said to myself, eh, that's just a number someone made up...

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