Intellectual Giftedness

Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average, sometimes called high intellectual potential, treated as a characteristic of children that motivates differences in school programming and thought to persist as a trait into adult life, with consequences studied in longitudinal studies over the past century, including stigmatizing and social exclusion. There is no single agreed definition of giftedness for children or adults, and definitions vary across cultures, but most school placement decisions and longitudinal studies have followed people with IQs in the top 2.5 percent of the population, around or above 130.