"Under the influence of this kind of value system, people are proud if they have a gifted child in their household, and feel that the earlier the child begins study, the better," says Professor Wu. As a result, many parents send their children to cram schools so that they will perform well enough on intelligence tests to be selected as gifted, a practice which skews the test results.
「在這種價值觀的影響下，國人都以家有資優兒為榮，而且認為學習開始得越早越好」，吳武典指出，結果造成許多家長為了讓孩子通過資優生選拔而去補習智力測驗，而使得測驗失去準頭。