Precocious Childrens' Trait Predictors

[I've discussed the topic as presented below with my good friend, Chuck.]

I'm taking "precocious children" to include physical and mental gifts bestowed upon children that can be recognized at early ages by trained and accredited professionals.

The Russians for years have developed a battery of  physical tests to discover whether a young girl, say, of about 5, is gifted in physical attributes that could be developed into those of an accomplished ballerina.  Today over the country. classroom teachers in the sciences are ever on the alert for students who obviously excel in both math and science.  Similarly, though the tests aren't quite accepted universally by political science teachers and sociologists, there is a growing acceptance of the idea in education that some children show traits of organizing and managing groups--in school, their fellow classmates--at as early an age as 10 years old (some prognosticators might believe even at much an earlier age).

Then too, some of us who have dealt in international affairs have commented that the really intellectual usually make sweeping, global generalizations somewhere in their thinking out an issue.
These instances are observable to someone in the field and can be noted, e.g., with regard to frequency.

So, there is being amassed a wealth of data about early indications of a youth's abilities to perform tasks associated with an occupation.  And, professionals in those fields and educators alike may note  the extent to which a particular's youth embodies the classic or paradigmatic model--what skills, even what interests, he shares with the practitioners of the art or trade.

Importantly, parents of precocious children can be alerted to the prospect that a child of theirs is in high demand within their social milieu for the skills he possesses.  May not mean much, but I think society through governmental structures should begin to encourage youthful individuals and their families to highlight and promote professional activities by identifying those rich in potential.  Imake it an action item.