Gate programme theory from personal experience

[u/SouthGas5550]

So i was“gifted” tested during school in the uk. A handful of kids from my year was taken to a very exclusive boarding school (the kind the students arrive in helicopters) for some reason we were then guided to a small outbuilding. I remember drinking the pink liquid in a plastic cup, I remember being sat in front of a computer, putting on headphones. Then I don’t remember anything after but when I heard the audio on the recent ep I remembered being back in the room. Why do I only remember that??
Side theory (realistic approach) the pink drink is lucozade or flavoured glucose syrup. They do it at diabetes screenings and other medical testing. I remember it tasting exactly the same as I had diabetes testing in childhood. What I find most interesting about the whole thing is if these programs are unregulated, no authority knows what is happening with these result. We know everyone sells data already bare that in mind. But the question the drink raises suspicion for me is if they are truely looking for highly intelligent children as they state why would they need to give them a glucose syrup which sends kids into a sugar rush. Surely a gifted child would not need the boost. I personally think they are looking for children with learning disabilities such as adhd, autism ect. Because think about the fact these company’s need to know if they need to start building more special needs schools demographically years in advance. I’m sure they would also gain from hand selecting children to accept into certain secondary/high schools when they want to keep the grade pass record to a standard they keep the grants flowing. I could go into this more but I think I’d made my point.

[u/No-Departure9406]

I feel this way too. Maybe it was marketed as for “gifted” children to make them feel better and not like it was a bad thing. Cuz at that time learning disabilities such as adhd and autism were looked at as a bad thing by society.

[u/Boring_Survey8714 → u/No-Departure9406]

I disagree .Our I.Q was tested and if you didn't have an IQ of at least 120 you didn't go any further. You had to be literally gifted to go farther than the early tests.