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Intellectual ability significantly higher than average

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Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average and is also known as high potential.

It is a characteristic of children, variously defined, that motivates differences in school programming. It is thought to persist as a trait into adult life, with various consequences studied in longitudinal studies of giftedness over the last century.

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These consequences sometimes include stigmatizing and social exclusion.^[1][2][3][4] There is no generally agreed definition of giftedness for either children or adults, but most school placement decisions and most longitudinal studies over the course of individual lives have followed people with IQs in the top 2.5 percent of the population—that is, IQs above 130.

Definitions of giftedness also vary across cultures.

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