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| | | Higher social classes have significantly HIGHER IQs than working class, claims academic
By Laura Clark - Last updated at 4:05 AM on 22nd May 2008
Working-class youngsters have lower IQs than their middle-class counterparts, an academic claimed last night.
Dr Bruce Charlton said the domination of middle-class students at elite universities is a "natural outcome" of IQ differences between social groups.
The evolutionary psychiatrist defended leading institutions from accusations by ministers of bias in admissions.
Dr Charlton, of Newcastle University, said: "The Government has spent a great deal of time and effort in asserting that universities, especially Oxford and Cambridge, are unfairly excluding people from low social-class backgrounds and privileging those from higher social classes. | Can a Person with a High IQ Be "Very Autistic?"
When talking about the autism spectrum, it's common to use the terms "low functioning" and "high functioning." The implication is that "high functioning" autism is less of an issue for day-to-day functioning - and thus that "high functioning" autistics require less support, less treatment, and fewer services. But About.com reader Carole Rutherford, in a comment on this blog, had this to say:
There is nothing at all holistic about an approach that talks about making too much of the persons problems and keeping them in perspective. A high level of intelligence does not diminish the level of autism/Asperger syndrome. In fact sometimes it heightens it. If I and many other parents know this to be true why do so many professionals ignore it and try to make our children and adults fit into neurotypical boxes? | hoogbegaafdvlaanderen.be - Het IQ is geen waarde is die je kunt vergelijken met lengte, gewicht, leeftijd of andere opjectief meetbare eigenschappen van je kind. Het is een waarde die toegekend wordt aan een persoon op basis van de antwoorden op een aantal onderdelen van een test.
De waarden zijn genormeerd, dat wil zeggen dat de waarden (en de frekwenties waarin ze voorkomen) zodanig ingeschaald zijn dat ze steeds op een bepaalde manier verdeeld zijn over de bevolking, namelijk volgens een klokvorm. | With a high IQ comes need for special education
Charles Murray - August 6, 2007 (Source: The Sidney Morning Herald)
When it comes to education of the intellectually gifted, Australia and the United States share a common dread of admitting the obvious.
The intellectually gifted exist, and they end up running the country whether or not we recognize them for what they are.
By "intellectually gifted" I do not mean the rarefied few who can become theoretical physicists. I am referring to the much broader set of people who are intellectually capable of standing out in almost any profession short of theoretical physics. Research about IQ and job performance indicates that this definition embraces roughly the top 10 per cent of the population, or about a million people out of Australia's labour force - a lot of people, not a tiny group of IQ nerds. | Students at Risk: How High-IQ Kids Are Neglected in School
By focusing so much on low-achieving children, schools have neglected gifted students, an approach that often ostracizes talented students and risks squandering the potential contributions of society’s most powerful minds, says Time’s John Cloud. Although many people assume that the highly gifted will find their own way, with or without extra attention from the school system, super-smart kids often flounder if they feel alienated or unchallenged in the classroom. About 5% of gifted students leave school early, about the same rate as nongifted kids. “Giftedness requires social context that enables it,” Abraham Tannenbaum, a Columbia University professor of education has written. In other words, raw intelligence, like muscle, needs exercise. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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