“…For example, intellectually gifted children tend to prefer older friends (Terman, 1925;Janos, Robinson, & Marwood, 1984), but the widely used Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach & Edelbrock, 1983) lists the item, "prefers playing with older children," as a behavior problem. Other examples are Smith's (1963, 1964) and Kennedy and Smith's (1962) reminders that intellectually gifted individuals' significantly higher scores on scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Edwards Personality Preference Scale, and Rotter Incomplete Sentences Test should not be interpreted as indicating greater difficulties in adjustment.…”