ABSTRACT
Every society wants to identify its gifted—those who potentially have the most to contribute to that society, and in many ways, may demand the least from it in terms of resources. For this reason, societies devise a variety of ways to identify their gifted. What would happen if a society devised means of identifying the gifted that identified only a small proportion of those who were really gifted, or worse, identified the wrong people? We would then have a society that, at best, failed to utilise its human resources in an optimal way, and worse, misutilised these resources to the detriment of the society, as well as to the individuals who constitute that society.
