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Does this atlas rank groups by IQ, race or nation?
No. Pathways and evidence stay individual. Scores are browsing aids — never group biological or racial ranks.
Is CTY the same as giftedness?
CTY is a search-and-course organisation. Giftedness is a construct (see that page). Paying for a summer course is not a soul.
Why not IQ only?
Renzulli’s rings and Gagné’s catalysts: commitment, creativity, practice, and opportunity. IQ-only gates miss arts, 2e, and the under-referred.
Do sport academies identify talent?
They identify current performance and size, with relative-age bias (see athletic-talent). AIS is a famous national machine with known false cuts.
Is Finland “anti-identification”?
It delays hard tracking and trusts teachers. That is a different ID theory: later, broader, less test-gated — not a claim that talent is unreal.
What about Cyril Burt?
A cautionary tale of fraud and class in British testing history. Do not build a modern system on a tainted ancestor. Binet’s original brief (help, not caste) is the better ancestor.
Practice means designed work with feedback — Ericsson’s construct, not Gladwell’s hour ticket.
Where Macnamara et al. 2014 published domain bands (games ~26%, music ~21%, sports ~18%, education ~4%), this page uses those rounded figures and does not invent new precision.
Steps
- Pick a domain
Maths, music, sport…
Not global.
- Choose a ceiling-aware sample
Above-level or portfolio.
Stanley/Renzulli.
- Offer a trial catalyst
A month of teaching.
Gagné.
- Count who never heard
Invitation audit.
Bias.
- Check 2e and relative age
Holes.
Hygiene.
- Date the next review
Off-ramp.
Humane.
Checklist
- Domain named — Not a soul stamp.
- Ceiling considered — Age-grade may be maxed.
- Invitation audited — Who missing?
- No group rank — Editorial.
- 2e asked — Hole.
- Relative age asked if sport — Cutoff.
- Review dated — Anti-caste.
- Paid badge not a destiny — CTY humility.
Drills
- Invitation rewrite — Shorter, translated, cheaper.
- Ceiling check — Give next year’s page.
- Nomination reverse-search — Who is never named?
- 2e case walkthrough — Both services.
- Label sunset memo — A date.
Pitfalls
- IQ-only gates — Miss arts and 2e.
- Fee-only search — Buys the file back.
- Group ranking — Forbidden.
- Permanent caste labels — Gagné ignored.
Tools
- Above-level past paper — Ceiling.
- A nomination-bias checklist — Who looks like last year?
- DMGT / three-ring one-pager — Staff literacy.
- A review-date stamp — Humane ID.
Talent identification: design the hour; retire the poster. Education is not a diagnosis.
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