Scott Barry Kaufman

And, you know, that makes a lot of sense.

But

signaling to the child that you expect you know them to to act a certain way is is setting them up absolutely for this psyche you know where they're a failure in life if they didn't achieve a certain set of expectation and and you see a lot of these young kids who show uh prowess or you know like the prodigies and they get paraded around you know on different talk shows and

TV shows and, you know, look what they can do.

And also you see a lot of unevenness among children who show, you know, these kind of advanced skills, I should say.

what you see is a lot of unevenness.

You'll see that their social-emotional development could be lagging two standard deviations behind their intellectual advancement.

And just recognizing the huge unevenness you can see among a lot of these children who we put the label gifted on is so, so important.

Yeah, it's true.

Depending on what test you give someone, you might find a different score.

And we do live in a system where, unfortunately, these test scores are required in order to get the resources that are important.

I've actually argued that people within the IQ band of 70 to 85 really fall between the cracks in a lot of ways because

Their IQ score is not low enough to get special resources.

It's not high enough for gifted education.

And a lot of people within that IQ band could probably benefit from some extra resources.

Not always, but they probably could.

But my argument is intimately tied to my dream of changing policy and having a world where you don't need a label anymore.

in order to get the resources that showing the need by itself is enough to get the resources.

Well, one avenue, which I think is interesting to think about is a school system where

everyone is not expected to go through the same rate in every class, and that you're somehow behind everyone else if you're not doing well across the board.