I have a question for those familiar with the research: in the spectrum of IQ scores, how big is the range of scores where most functioning people fall?
Unless your child falls into one of the outlier categories (the genius at one end and the intellectually disabled at the other), isn’t it true, that in all likelihood, your child falls somewhere in the vast middle described as “normal?” I’ll grant that “normal” covers a wide range of IQs.
But I’ll challenge the notion that the difference among “normal” kids is something we can discern as parents. If two “normal” kids have the same environment - same access, same resources, same family income…etc. but two different IQ scores, how is that difference manifest in real life (other than the IQ test itself)? Do they do better in school? Do better in their careers? Is the difference in their two performances sufficient to justify the attention we’re giving it? Or is the manifestation of their smarts also a range considered “normal?”
In other words, should we instead be asking, “what makes your kid so normal/non-distinctive?”
Do the genetic-superior parents have an answer?