Exceptionally Gifted Students in Their School Years — Part 2 of 5

Two more subjects from the 20 year longitudinal study about gifted children grown up. Two young men.

As I said in Part 1, Level Three individuals are all in the 99th percentile of the intellectual continuum. So are Levels Four and Five. But you will see more and more differences between each Level as we move through that continuum. Being at the 99th percentile intellectually in some or all things, doesn’t mean you are exactly like someone else in that range.

Level Three — Highly to Exceptionally Gifted

Recap for Level Three (Exceptionally Gifted)

There are nine people from Level Three for whom there is enough personality and parenting information to explore. Six of the nine subjects had at least one parent — a total of seven parents — show a personality preference on the MBTI® for J-Judging. Of the nine fathers, three did not take the personality instrument, three scored as a J-Judging type, and the three remaining fathers scored as a P-Perceiving type. Six of the children preferred P-Perceiving, two did not take it as a child, and…