Table 1.

Descriptive characteristics (means (standard deviations)) of each group of children.

	gifted	moderately gifted	typical
n	15	13	15
age	9;2 (1;5)	8;8 (1;3)	8;11 (1;8)
realism score
6- to 8-year-olds	0.55 (0.12)	0.30 (0.05)	0.04 (0.05)
n	6	5	5
9- to 10-year-olds	0.74 (0.10)	0.46 (0.08)	0.27 (0.09)
n	9	8	10