Comments on: Gifted Adults: Intellectual Challenge and Fulfillment http://gifteduniverse.com/more-about-gifted-adults/gifted-adults-intellectual-challenge-and-fulfillment/ Gifted Adults Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:29:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Matthew http://gifteduniverse.com/more-about-gifted-adults/gifted-adults-intellectual-challenge-and-fulfillment/comment-page-1/#comment-351 Matthew Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:49:42 +0000 http://gifteduniverse.com/?p=509#comment-351 Also,... Found at TV Tropes.com (which is about writin' friction) under the trope of "Intelligence Equals Isolation" (Real Life examples): http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IntelligenceEqualsIsolation + Studies have said: "15 IQ points difference is a small impediment but 30 IQ points typically makes it difficult (which is the minimum difference between someone perfectly average and someone classified gifted in the public school system.)" + "To elaborate/simplify, it's all about the jokes. 30 IQ points is just the right amount of difference for the joke repertoire and capability of understanding of such jokes of two individuals to nearly completely miss each other. And if you can't bond through humor, that gets rid of the purpose for most platonic relationships." Of course, it's a site aimed at writers (and didn't cite which studies, who said, etc.) but boiled-down to easily-consumed essentials for getting things right in stories so first-hand expert readers don't complain they're junk. (Being military, writing fiction as a hobby and seeing jacked-up fictional military stuff, I can appreciate where they're coming from here, but I digress.) Enjoy. Also,…

Found at TV Tropes.com (which is about writin’ friction) under the trope of “Intelligence Equals Isolation” (Real Life examples):
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IntelligenceEqualsIsolation

+ Studies have said: “15 IQ points difference is a small impediment but 30 IQ points typically makes it difficult (which is the minimum difference between someone perfectly average and someone classified gifted in the public school system.)”

+ “To elaborate/simplify, it’s all about the jokes. 30 IQ points is just the right amount of difference for the joke repertoire and capability of understanding of such jokes of two individuals to nearly completely miss each other. And if you can’t bond through humor, that gets rid of the purpose for most platonic relationships.”

Of course, it’s a site aimed at writers (and didn’t cite which studies, who said, etc.) but boiled-down to easily-consumed essentials for getting things right in stories so first-hand expert readers don’t complain they’re junk. (Being military, writing fiction as a hobby and seeing jacked-up fictional military stuff, I can appreciate where they’re coming from here, but I digress.) Enjoy.

]]> By: Matthew http://gifteduniverse.com/more-about-gifted-adults/gifted-adults-intellectual-challenge-and-fulfillment/comment-page-1/#comment-227 Matthew Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:39:02 +0000 http://gifteduniverse.com/?p=509#comment-227 "In the article, Colangelo suggests that 'meeting the cognitive needs of gifted students often simultaneously meets their social-emotional needs'." Oh, exactly... to have worthwhile interaction, people have to understand what you're talking about. (Why grade-skipping and ability grouping are better for the gifted... you'll have folks who understand what you're talking about. Sounds like a "Duh!" item not worth wasting time studying or even talking about, right? Try having social interaction and positive social-affective benfits from it with people who don't understand what you're talking about... not gonna happen.) “In the article, Colangelo suggests that ‘meeting the cognitive needs of gifted students often simultaneously meets their social-emotional needs’.” Oh, exactly… to have worthwhile interaction, people have to understand what you’re talking about. (Why grade-skipping and ability grouping are better for the gifted… you’ll have folks who understand what you’re talking about. Sounds like a “Duh!” item not worth wasting time studying or even talking about, right? Try having social interaction and positive social-affective benfits from it with people who don’t understand what you’re talking about… not gonna happen.)

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