[Oz-gifted] Update on L

[David Broadfoot]

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> From: oz-gifted-bounces at rite.ed.qut.edu.au [mailto:oz-gifted-
> bounces at rite.ed.qut.edu.au] On Behalf Of Ellen Hrebeniuk
> Sent: Thursday, 14 December 2006 2:36 PM
> To: oz-gifted at cobia.ed.qut.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [Oz-gifted] Update on L
> 
> According to the WSPPI-III he is in the top 0.4% of the
> population for language skills, and top 2% generally.  I suspect the
> informal comments of his teacher that she'd "never taught a child
> quite like him before" kicked things along a bit.

"Top 2%" is not so rare: one in 50 students are in the top 2%. And given
that "top 2%" means 98th percentile, then similar children would include the
top 4% say, so that's one in 25 children. Given also that the WSPPI-III
generally overestimates IQ, and that the tails of the real IQ distribution
are fatter than the actual Normal distribution, the rarity is further
reduced: perhaps to one in every 15 children.

So there should be one similar in every class, which makes me wonder how
long she been teaching.

David