ABSTRACT
In order to understand resilience to low tested intelligence, it must first be acknowledged that the legitimacy of measuring intelligence by conventional assessment scales is controversial. On the one hand, conventional IQ tests measure only the narrow facet of verbal and performance intelligence that predicts school success. On the other hand, as Sternberg pointed out, in practice, standard intelligence tests have not really changed in over a century. For most children, remedial education or adoption from deprived into advantaged families can shift tested IQ upward by no more than half a standard deviation; and, over the years much of such environmentally induced improvement can be lost. Logistic regression, using all the childhood psychosocial variables, including social dancing, showed that only childhood competence and social dancing predicted membership in the good outcome group.
