One day, during a session, the psychologist Valérie Levy is confronted with an intriguing phenomenon: her little patient answers too perfectly, word for word, the questions of the IQ test that she submits to him. As if he had already worked on it. However, the test, which aims to assess performance in real time, is not valid if it has been revised. “We want this high IQ so badly! » sighs Valerie Levy.
While it is difficult to assess the number of tests carried out per year (psychologists do not centralize this information), all the specialists interviewed by the “Obs” are in agreement: the demand for psychometric assessments, intended to measuring the intellectual abilities of children, has exploded in recent years, at the same time as that linked to hyperactivity disorders, “dys” disorders (dyslexia, dyspraxia, dysorthographia, etc.).
Books on the question of the “gifted”, such as the works of psychologists Jeanne Siaud-Facchin and Monique de Kermadec or the communication consultant Christel Petitcollin, are sold by the shovel and are translated all over the world. Audiences for the “HPI” series on TF1 reached 9.9 million viewers, a real hit. If we add a tendency to self-diagnosis on the adult side, which consists of drawing from the flood of information available on the internet or in the literature to identify one’s disorders, one is left with the persistent impression that high intellectual potential (HPI) are p
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