Personality Type and Social Adjustment in Families with Children Over 170 IQ on the [old] SBLM

Abstract Summary

Certain personality differences between parents and children lead to predictable problems and issues. Many highly to profoundly gifted children may be going unassessed, unrecognized, and under-educated when some personality patterns in their families exist.

Before readers get too excited about my use of the old IQ scale here, let me make sure you understand that scores over 170 are not part of what’s available on most ability tests these days. So, I start here with my guide for how to compare them, the old test scores and the new.

Seeing this information will help you to see and consider yourselves and other family members as perhaps falling into this range.

Ruf Estimates of Standard IQ Score Ranges for the 5 Levels of Gifted

The old Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Form LM is not on a standardized scale, and it was used well-past its normative prime (which was the 1970s) as a good indicator of the test-taker’s abilities at the highest levels of intelligence. Although the test did not actually have a higher “ceiling” than modern tests like the Wechsler (WPPSI, WISC, and WAIS versions) and newer Stanford-Binet 5…