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Debating Giftedness: Pronat vs. Antinat

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International Handbook on Giftedness

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This chapter pursues two main goals: (a) demonstrate that natural abilities—and their outstanding expression as gifts—really exist (the mainstream Pronat position) and that recent attacks by a few researchers who deny their existence (the Antinat position) can be easily parried empirically; (b) expose questionable scholarly behavior by some Antinat researchers. In the first part, I will examine the concept of natural ability, pointing out its six defining characteristics. I will then demonstrate with extensive empirical evidence that both general intelligence and physical natural abilities meet all six defining criteria of a natural ability. In the second part, I will illustrate how some influent Antinat researchers deliberately exclude relevant evidence, accumulate irrelevant evidence, ignore crucial objections, and select from published studies only the results that support their position. These cases of deliberate (mal) practice show their lack of desire to examine objectively all the available evidence and reassess their entrenched beliefs.

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Gagné, F. (2009). Debating Giftedness: Pronat vs. Antinat. In: Shavinina, L.V. (eds) International Handbook on Giftedness. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6162-2_7

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