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.
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Is being gifted the same as having a high IQ?
Some researchers have equated the two, but later researchers argued for more multifaceted views of intelligence.
Not in every account. Since Lewis Terman in 1916, psychometricians and psychologists have sometimes equated giftedness with high IQ. Later researchers, including Raymond Cattell, J. P. Guilford and Louis Leon Thurstone, argued that intellect cannot be expressed in such a unitary manner and suggested more multifaceted approaches to intelligence.
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Since Lewis Terman in 1916, psychometricians and psychologists have sometimes equated giftedness with high IQ.
Introduction
Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average and can also be called as high intellectual potential.
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