Underachievement rates among those gifted children

[naamagatus]

Hi,

If I understand Shaun correctly, I think that when he refers to 
underachievers, it is in the context of academic achievement. So, for 
him, a child (or an adult) who wishes to reach a certain level of 
knowledge (or master some specific subject matter) and has the 
ability to do so, is an underachiever if he doesn't do so. 
In real life it's so difficult to measure underachievement, isn't it? 
There are competing priorities and goals. There are so many and 
diverse objective and subjective difficulties. Certainly for research 
purposes, I would think that underachievement can only be defined in 
relation to a specific, isolable sphere of activity (e.g., academy, 
athletics, etc.).


Naama