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I think the G&T test scores on here are equivalent to the weight polls. Apparently, everyone in NYC is rail thin with brilliant children. Or there are some fibbers out there. Signed by someone who is not thin with children whose intelligence is in the normal range.
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06.03.08, 06:55 AM [ Flag ]
- but did you have your kids tested? I would assume that only people who think their kids are gifted would have them tested
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  06.03.08, 06:59 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - OP: Nope. But, I have never seen one post where someone scored under 97. Nor have a seen a weight poll where someone weighed more than 130. So everyone who is tested is brilliant..and everyone with a scale is skinny?
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    06.03.08, 07:00 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - I weigh 145--but I have kids who have scored 99 and 98--so either I am half fibbing or I am off balance
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      06.03.08, 07:31 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      - but if you are 5'10" then you are just fine.
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        06.03.08, 07:47 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        Nope, only 5'5". However, my BMI is in the normal range and I am pretty muscular, so only in NYC would I truly be considered "overweight" (but my kids are bright by all standards ;-) )
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        06.03.08, 07:54 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        then you fall into the fine category in my book. :) and meet OPs original post.
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        06.03.08, 08:20 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - my kid is gifted (IQ of about 145) and i am about 15 pounds overweight. just saying.
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      06.03.08, 07:33 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      - a lot of people think they are 15 pounds overweight on here, when they are in reality fine. Until you post your real height and weight for judgement, that is the reality.
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        06.03.08, 07:47 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        as someone who has been 15 pounds thinner and has a wardrobe sitting in my closet that doesn't fit me to prove it, you'll just have to trust me on this. i am definitely 15 pounds overweight -- and at my ideal weight, i am not skinny at all. just completely average.
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        06.03.08, 07:51 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        btw - how old are you?
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        06.03.08, 08:15 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        42.
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        06.03.08, 08:25 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        ^^^^why?
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        06.03.08, 08:26 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - np: a lot of people think their kids are gifted.
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    06.03.08, 07:00 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- maybe the people who answer the weight polls are the thin ones and the overweight ones prefer not to answer
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  06.03.08, 07:56 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - OP: My point exactly. But it works on both polls. People who are thin and kids score well answer. Those who do not, do not answer...but it makes it appear that everyone is skinny and genius.
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    06.03.08, 08:22 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- I'm obese and my kid is in one of the citywide G&Ts. (They did not give us the percentiles.) I think it is partly selection bias and partly who answers polls. I don't answer weight polls. I know what my issues are and the last thing I need or want is stale advice from strangers.
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  06.03.08, 08:04 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - Ditto!
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    06.03.08, 08:17 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - Obese by whose standards? UB or the rest of the world? For example, I am short and a size 10. Obese by NYC standards.
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    06.03.08, 08:23 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - if you are short, a size 10 is likely obese. the clothes are bigger than they used to be. a 10 of today is a 12-14 of my childhood
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      06.03.08, 09:09 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      - OR: FWIW, I am mid training to run a marathon. Have always been a 10. Maybe I will be the first obese marathoner.
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        06.03.08, 09:10 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        many who run the marathon are on the chunky side. its like the last heave ho effort. not sure why people cannot just be reasonable and not so extreme about everything
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        06.03.08, 09:16 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        OR: I agree I am chunky. No question about that one. That was not your statement.
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        06.03.08, 09:18 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      - Overweight, yes. Obese..hard to call.
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        06.03.08, 09:15 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - I am obese by any standard of people who know what obese is. -or
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      06.03.08, 09:34 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- The citywide G&T tours were all done by parents with very normal/somewhat overweight body types. I felt right at home, as compared to the private school tours for nursery and ongoing, where clearly a criteria for tour guides was a waist no larger than size 2.
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  06.03.08, 08:31 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - Except for Anderson. For some reason the folks at the OH I attended was a different kind of people than the ones I've seen at NEST, LL, or others.
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    06.03.08, 08:59 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - How so? When I toured Anderson a few weeks ago I thought people were normal..
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      06.03.08, 09:03 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      - you could tell they were much more affluent
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        06.03.08, 09:11 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        Funny - I didn't get that sense at all. But - I guess it's all relative since I am coming from an affluent preschool!
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        06.03.08, 09:13 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        Maybe I picked the wrong night.
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        06.03.08, 09:33 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        I didn't go to the open house, I just did the tour once we got the scores
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        06.03.08, 09:50 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        seem less affluent to me. maybe its just the gritty, old NY factor.
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        06.03.08, 09:17 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - I found the anderson moms to be on the older, frumpier side. slightly overweight+.
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      06.03.08, 09:10 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      - i don't think i'm frumpy...)-:
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        06.03.08, 09:11 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        not aimed at anyone in particular. btw, I don't see that as a negative. I am sure you are lovely. :)
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        06.03.08, 09:14 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        awwww -- a sweet UBer!
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        06.03.08, 09:23 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        Are you people this shallow or maybe just insecure? Checking out parents' weight at open house and tours!
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        06.04.08, 09:08 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

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I think the G&T test scores on here are equivalent to the weight polls. Apparently, everyone in NYC is rail thin with brilliant children. Or there are some fibbers out there. Signed by someone who is not thin with children whose intelligence is in the normal range.

but did you have your kids tested? I would assume that only people who think their kids are gifted would have them tested

OP: Nope. But, I have never seen one post where someone scored under 97. Nor have a seen a weight poll where someone weighed more than 130. So everyone who is tested is brilliant..and everyone with a scale is skinny?

I weigh 145--but I have kids who have scored 99 and 98--so either I am half fibbing or I am off balance

but if you are 5'10" then you are just fine.

Nope, only 5'5". However, my BMI is in the normal range and I am pretty muscular, so only in NYC would I truly be considered "overweight" (but my kids are bright by all standards ;-) )

then you fall into the fine category in my book. :) and meet OPs original post.

my kid is gifted (IQ of about 145) and i am about 15 pounds overweight. just saying.

a lot of people think they are 15 pounds overweight on here, when they are in reality fine. Until you post your real height and weight for judgement, that is the reality.

as someone who has been 15 pounds thinner and has a wardrobe sitting in my closet that doesn't fit me to prove it, you'll just have to trust me on this. i am definitely 15 pounds overweight -- and at my ideal weight, i am not skinny at all. just completely average.

btw - how old are you?

42.

^^^^why?

np: a lot of people think their kids are gifted.

maybe the people who answer the weight polls are the thin ones and the overweight ones prefer not to answer

OP: My point exactly. But it works on both polls. People who are thin and kids score well answer. Those who do not, do not answer...but it makes it appear that everyone is skinny and genius.

I'm obese and my kid is in one of the citywide G&Ts. (They did not give us the percentiles.) I think it is partly selection bias and partly who answers polls. I don't answer weight polls. I know what my issues are and the last thing I need or want is stale advice from strangers.

Ditto!

Obese by whose standards? UB or the rest of the world? For example, I am short and a size 10. Obese by NYC standards.

if you are short, a size 10 is likely obese. the clothes are bigger than they used to be. a 10 of today is a 12-14 of my childhood

OR: FWIW, I am mid training to run a marathon. Have always been a 10. Maybe I will be the first obese marathoner.

many who run the marathon are on the chunky side. its like the last heave ho effort. not sure why people cannot just be reasonable and not so extreme about everything

OR: I agree I am chunky. No question about that one. That was not your statement.

Overweight, yes. Obese..hard to call.

I am obese by any standard of people who know what obese is. -or

The citywide G&T tours were all done by parents with very normal/somewhat overweight body types. I felt right at home, as compared to the private school tours for nursery and ongoing, where clearly a criteria for tour guides was a waist no larger than size 2.

Except for Anderson. For some reason the folks at the OH I attended was a different kind of people than the ones I've seen at NEST, LL, or others.

How so? When I toured Anderson a few weeks ago I thought people were normal..

you could tell they were much more affluent

Funny - I didn't get that sense at all. But - I guess it's all relative since I am coming from an affluent preschool!

Maybe I picked the wrong night.

I didn't go to the open house, I just did the tour once we got the scores

seem less affluent to me. maybe its just the gritty, old NY factor.

I found the anderson moms to be on the older, frumpier side. slightly overweight+.

i don't think i'm frumpy...)-:

not aimed at anyone in particular. btw, I don't see that as a negative. I am sure you are lovely. :)

awwww -- a sweet UBer!

Are you people this shallow or maybe just insecure? Checking out parents' weight at open house and tours!

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