Maturation effects during puberty (e.g., fast maturation may lead to higher aptitudes at a relatively earlier age), or the ability to assess one's own aptitude, may be of importance within this age range.
Trump aggressively polices any idea that his victory was anything short of a demonstration of his own general aptitude at all things, and views the Russian-meddling investigations as efforts to show that he wouldn't have won without Russian aid.
As an example, Oxford suggests, "She's a muggle: no IT background, understanding or aptitude at all". .
Well-crafted legislation could conceivably cut down on the revolving door for migrants with children, but Trump has shown little interest in the legislative process, and no aptitude at all for bending it to his will.
Dehn told me that his classes had an "insane mix" of students, some talented, some with no aptitude at all, some who could barely read and needed more remedial courses.
Even more irksome is the way the main function of the story's autistic character, played by Dustin Hoffman, is to serve as a vehicle for delivering redemption – and, due to aptitude at card counting, a big bag of blackjack money to Tom Cruise as his shallow, car-dealer brother.
Sir Peter Lampl, the millionaire philanthropist who has set up a trust to encourage disadvantaged youngsters to go to leading universities and is also a member of the task force, backed the idea for aptitude tests at a private seminar earlier this month.
A stone jar carved between 3650 and 3300 B.C. displays a stunning aptitude at reducing animal form to near abstraction, with a surreal twist that anticipates 20th-century avant-garde art.
And the title track develops in ways that suggest Ballard's aptitude at funk has had an influence.
A very few privileged collectors have an astonishing aptitude at anticipating future trends, sometimes by decades.
